Posts that are long paragraphs and poorly formatted I tend to skip because it's just too hard to read.
Sometimes posts like this make me wonder. Do THEY read the posts on their flists with long paragraphs? I always approach writing my posts with that in mind--ok, what is a person going to see when they skim this, so how do I show quickly on the surface what it's about so they can decide if they want to read or not? --Also, how can I make this post appealing so that they'll click the cut and decide to discuss whatever I'm rambling about? It sounds...manipulative stated like that, but I'm truly interested in conversation, and it's so difficult to read and reply to everything on your flist that you have to pick and choose the conversations you want. So I try to make people pick mine. Okay, big tangent.
Yeah, rich text sucks! Have you tried this semagic thing though? It's pretty cool.
And Austin was ...interesting. We drove out to this little town in the Hill Country, listened to my dad throw up all night, and drove home. Oh, sad little spring break vacation.
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Sometimes posts like this make me wonder. Do THEY read the posts on their flists with long paragraphs? I always approach writing my posts with that in mind--ok, what is a person going to see when they skim this, so how do I show quickly on the surface what it's about so they can decide if they want to read or not? --Also, how can I make this post appealing so that they'll click the cut and decide to discuss whatever I'm rambling about? It sounds...manipulative stated like that, but I'm truly interested in conversation, and it's so difficult to read and reply to everything on your flist that you have to pick and choose the conversations you want. So I try to make people pick mine. Okay, big tangent.
Yeah, rich text sucks! Have you tried this semagic thing though? It's pretty cool.
And Austin was ...interesting. We drove out to this little town in the Hill Country, listened to my dad throw up all night, and drove home. Oh, sad little spring break vacation.