Glad you’re feeling better and good to see your heart’s in the right place (the other thread). Perhaps you could have done more (don’t jeopardize your job!) but sometimes that’s a struggle and at least you’re – and others – working on that kind of thing, and not remainig unfeeling (and this is coming from an African American). Keep your chin up and keep working on those paragraphs.
I dunno, I mean it’s simple enough to hit enter a couple times while you’re rant/typing, and I guess he’s done it in more than one thread. But it seems like some people treat it like the end of the freaking world. Oh noes, I had to concentrate on reading for an extra 45 seconds than I otherwise would have had there been paragraphs!
Reminds me of the people on the customerssuck board prefacing a post with (WARNING: Long) and then write 2 paragraphs. Lack of paragraphs is annoying, and mentioning it is one thing, but the hand wringing, “your post was soooooo hard to read” attitudes make me wonder about the actual level of difficulty people have. They’re either MUCH worse readers than I am (unlikely), or they’re simply showing what seems to me to be childish impatience.
ETA: This definitely wasn’t directed just at the OP. And Guin, per your signature, I hope you told the person who asked that that only the Martian dinosaurs are in the planetarium. The ones from Venus are with the Earth ones in the museum, but they’re invisible, so don’t worry if you can’t see them.
I probably would have tried to tell them stories about all the planets’ dinosaurs, like the Jupiter ones are microscopic, and there have been rumors about some of the skeletons coming back to life and going inside people and turning them into Jupiter dinosaur zombies!!
(Short: 2 paragraphs)
HIs post actually made my eyes hurt (I’m severely astigmatic).
This thread and his thread title made me curious enough that I copied the text to Word and replaced every vowel followed by a period with two hard returns.
Maybe someone should open another thread in the Pit telling you again that
you’re = you are
your = possessive of you
In your above sentence, you mean to write “you’re.” Please, think before you type that word. You could have a thread on page one of the Pit for the rest of the month at this rate. 
It’s not impossible…
Reading long blocks of unparagraphed text is (at least for me) the same as reading while being constantly interrupted in the middle of every other sentence. Finding this difficult has nothing to do with how well one reads, and it is only tangentially useful to note that it has something to do with patience.
Why is it like reading while being constantly interrupted? Because one function of the paragraph, especially online, is to help the reader keep his place. When I come to the end of the line, I can immediately find which is the next line on the other side of the page because I know about how many lines down or up I am from the end or the beginning of the paragraph I’m in. But if there are no paragraphs, I have no good reference points for this, and so each time I come to the end of the line, I have to stop reading, scan around, and figure out which is the next line on the other side of the text I’m reading. This is a constant interruption, which makes it difficult to read the text, in much the same way my three year old makes it difficult for me to read a text if he’s in the same room with me.
Paragraphs also serve the function of organizing the rhetorical flow of a text of course, but my difficulty with un-paragraphed text blocks (esp. online, where lines of text tend to be much longer than in print) has less to do with that than with what I described above. The organizational angle has something to do with it as well, though.
-FrL-
Certainly, however the posts in question seem much more stream of consciousness than finely scripted text and should be read as such. Think more Bret Easton Ellis than Stephen King if you follow me. The wording shouldn’t be parsed in the posts because, IMHO, that the thoughts that inspired them weren’t coming in paragraph form either.
Because this way the thread can be about her.
But that tends not to end so well, so let’s just let this die.
Man, I still wan’t to hear from Giraffe. That obstinant SOB. I wish he wouldn’t be so standoffish. I have to work with guys in just the same ways every day and it’s so much easier when you can look someone in the eye.
How tall are you that you think you can look **Giraffe ** in the eye? 
Agreed on all points, and again it’s not like it’d be hard for him to hit enter a couple times. But when confronted with that wall, you ever consider highlighting parts of it with your mouse? Breaks it up nicely.
It would just take too much time. Remember that the topic sentence isn’t always the first sentence in a paragraph.
Actually, the fix I stumbled on yesterday is to use the mouse cursor to mark my place along the left hand side. That’s what helped remind me of the other reason I usually skip unparagraphed blocks of text–they generally don’t turn out to be the kind of thing I like to read.
-FrL-
Yes, Rudolf Hess was a dick, that’s for sure.
Speaking of dicks, what’s up with Bulwer-Lytton? Ever since I submitted my entry the site has been kaflooie. As our resident best of the worst you must find out for us.
So sorry for hijack. Here, take peanuts!
Eh? I’m not talking about highlighting perfect paragraphs or anything. Just that if you highlight a chunk of 4 sentences or whatever, it’s easy to give your eyes a reference point. Then as you complete your reading of those you swipe down another chunk of text. The highlighting doesn’t even need to start or end at the beginning or end of sentences.