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<Many people are annoyed by long screeds. Without constraints, long winded people would swamp timelines with verbiage (even if concealed by a read more). At least a thread lets us opt out of reading more.>
When I bought Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution, it was 1330 pages long, and I read it cover to cover. It was not parceled up for me by someone who "decided" that the 3-second attention span of humans was the new norm, against my will.
If length is SO GOD-DAMNED IMPORTANT then one writes a PAGINATOR, but leaves the LENGTH up to the USER.
NOBODY ASKED ANYBODY whether "500" is enough or too much. I suggest that if reading as much as TWO PARAGRAPHS is a CHORE then the person who CAN'T is not worth a five-figure salary, much less a six-figure one.
It may be time to remind people that they are in charge of their own BRAINS. ICYMI, when one gets TIRED of reading, one can stop AT ANY TIME AND PLACE, and for the simple cost of remembering that place, can resume again later. If you can't manage that much, how else must we coddle you? I'm not interested in being turned into a one-second-attention-span monkey by people DELIBERATELY trying to ENGINEER us to be that way. I'm smart enough to cut my own meat, thank you very much. I'm tired of being forced to deal with material deliberately written ONLY to be consumed by people with IQs < 70, and I suggest EVERYONE get angry about it.
The illusion of microblogging is an illusion. If I have 10000 words and cut it into 100 pieces, it's still 10000 words. If the reader can't figure out how to stop reading at the next period, then FUCK THE READER, we didn't write for THAT asshole. Yeah, let's all use tiny words because most people don't know anything else. [Warning: word length alarm: 8 letters (in 'anything') may overwhelm many readers.]
If it's EVEREST, you climb it in pieces, you don't reduce it to rubble first to "make it easier". That's what the moribund educational system does. Just give everyone "A"s, don't worry if anyone learned a damned thing.
The length of anything written should be at the writer's option, and the "page length" should be at the reader's option. Neither side needs be constrained to suit the other. The world has no business being constrained by what is convenient for cell phone users.
<Many people are annoyed by long screeds. Without constraints, long winded people would swamp timelines with verbiage (even if concealed by a read more). At least a thread lets us opt out of reading more.>
When I bought Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution, it was 1330 pages long, and I read it cover to cover. It was not parceled up for me by someone who "decided" that the 3-second attention span of humans was the new norm, against my will.
If length is SO GOD-DAMNED IMPORTANT then one writes a PAGINATOR, but leaves the LENGTH up to the USER.
NOBODY ASKED ANYBODY whether "500" is enough or too much. I suggest that if reading as much as TWO PARAGRAPHS is a CHORE then the person who CAN'T is not worth a five-figure salary, much less a six-figure one.
It may be time to remind people that they are in charge of their own BRAINS. ICYMI, when one gets TIRED of reading, one can stop AT ANY TIME AND PLACE, and for the simple cost of remembering that place, can resume again later. If you can't manage that much, how else must we coddle you? I'm not interested in being turned into a one-second-attention-span monkey by people DELIBERATELY trying to ENGINEER us to be that way. I'm smart enough to cut my own meat, thank you very much. I'm tired of being forced to deal with material deliberately written ONLY to be consumed by people with IQs < 70, and I suggest EVERYONE get angry about it.
The illusion of microblogging is an illusion. If I have 10000 words and cut it into 100 pieces, it's still 10000 words. If the reader can't figure out how to stop reading at the next period, then FUCK THE READER, we didn't write for THAT asshole. Yeah, let's all use tiny words because most people don't know anything else. [Warning: word length alarm: 8 letters (in 'anything') may overwhelm many readers.]
If it's EVEREST, you climb it in pieces, you don't reduce it to rubble first to "make it easier". That's what the moribund educational system does. Just give everyone "A"s, don't worry if anyone learned a damned thing.
The length of anything written should be at the writer's option, and the "page length" should be at the reader's option. Neither side needs be constrained to suit the other. The world has no business being constrained by what is convenient for cell phone users.