snfaulkner, come in here...

[Alessan]

@BigT

His post may have been long, but it wasn’t remotely incoherent.

I will say it frustrates me that length is considered a negative even here. I remember when we mocked the “tl;dr” culture.

I mean, we’re expected to read entire long threads before we post here. There have been several threads longer than that first post, but you will get mocked if you repeat something someone else said.

It’s the same reason most people prefer reading or listening to dialogs over monologs, even if the number of words is the same.

[CarnalK]

@asahi

I get that white people aren’t interested in how people of color try to function daily in a world in which they’re considered “underclass” but a little effort might help.

People want to know why I defended Huey and this is why: the beginning of the end for Huey began with comments in response to a feud with Shodan. Huey was responding to Shodan, who frequently engages in the same kind of sarcastic, smug dismissal of issues that pertain to race, prejudice, equality, etc (like the use of the n-word, for instance).

Taken out of context, sure, Huey’s comments about Shodan’s “imported” child were reprehensible and racially loaded - I don’t dispute that and never actually did. But part of that context, and part of understanding Huey’s perspective is understanding that a) Huey is an angry black man, who lives in a society that is perpetually hostile to black people, and b) Shodan, who may actually be a decent person in real life, has an online persona that is smug and dismissive towards the problems that people of color deal with.

And so is snfaulkner, and I dare say that this fits the bill for some other posters on this board. Some might not even be aware of their own biases or how offensive they are. Understanding prejudice requires awareness, and awareness requires…an effort to understand.

Yeah well Banquet Bear is overly verbose on every topic not just the rights of Black SDMB posters. Never says in two words what could be said in six and loves that hyper annoying sentence by sentence reply, always with heavy dash of sanctimony.

Anyway, I wasn’t one of those demanding Huey get banned and he really should have been given some warning or suspension first anyway. However, what he got dinged for was not really some made up on the spot concept. I’ve personally had a mod or two warn me in the past that I was spending too many of my posts criticizing other posters and/or moderation.

[Paranoid_Randroid]

@MrDibble

Or PM the OP if you’re so short of brain that 8th-grade level reading hurts.

The entire Harry Potter series can be read between a 6-8th grade reading level, but I suspect you’d groan if someone expected you to read all 3400 pages to follow a discussion when a one-page summary would be sufficient. I don’t know why folks are so peevish about being expected to adhere to a bit of concision.

[MrDibble]

@Paranoid_Randroid

The entire Harry Potter series can be read between a 6-8th grade reading level, but I suspect you’d groan if someone expected you to read all 3400 pages to follow a discussion when a one-page summary would be sufficient.

snfaulkner wasn’t “expected to read” jackshit. When he opened the thread and saw that it was more than a tweet’s length, he was as perfectly capable of clicking “Close Tab” as any of us. I mean, it was the OP, not a reply to a discussion he was already following. Personally, I appreciate OPs that make an effort.