Paragraphs please.

I completely agree. I too find long blocks of print offputting and indigestable.

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I probably use too many paragraphs , but my eyes get tired trying to follow an unbroken text . I find it hard to read some of the long ones .

I don’t bother with very long posts with no paragraphs. Too off-putting.

I do often wonder, whether when they preview (maybe they don’t) posters don’t think, ‘Er, perhaps I ought to break that up a bit.’

I find paragraphs make a post more likely to be read to the end

I often give up on those long, long posts.

I use more paragraphs online than otherwise. When people are reading on a phone posts seem longer than they would on a bigger screen, and it is important to break them up. I don't mind long posts, but it's so much easier when they have paragraphs.

I give up on long unpunctuated posts which don't have paragraphs.

Me too. Just can't cope with reading very long posts.

I can’t be bothered with long long chunks of posts I do start but get half way down and just give up

I am partially sighted and can read normal font provided it is paragraphed. I do not bother with a page of A4 totally unparagraphed and in some cases little punctuation. Life is too short.

Many of the long unparagraphed posts come from US members. Is it a question of how they are taught to use /not use paaragraphs at school?

Realised I’m probably guilty.

But I was wrongly assuming that when you press Return the message gets sent. As it does when using WhatsApp.

Getting the hang of this now

It’s not just no paragraphs sometimes. No commas or full stops often make reading difficult.

But what do you consider a long paragraph? One long sentence? Two sentences? Three?

Or the posts where everything is in one paragraph?

Very long opening posts put me off even when they do have paragraphs and punctuation. It I have to keep scrolling to get to the end of the OP then I don't bother.

Sparklefizz

I give up on long unpunctuated posts which don't have paragraphs.

Me, too.

It's like trying to plough through James Joyce's Ulysses.

I feel almost breathless at the end of those paragraph-less posts and am not quiet sure that I grasped the point.

I don't even attempt them now.

I don't even try. One look then automatic miss. I do realise the content may be interesting but....hey......

Long posts, with lack of paragraphs and punctuation irritate me too and I tend to move on.

However, I am aware that some posters may be upset and desperate to get their thoughts down and write without paying attention to coherence.

Hear, hear from me.

And while we’re at it, this “stream of consciousness” posts where the only punctuation is a series of …between sentences.
I too become quite breathless!
You know the sort of thing
I don’t want to moan…but I need to get this off my chest…and my friend isn’t speaking to me…and my neighbour plays noisy music or cuts his grass when we’re enjoying a barbecue…I can even hear their children shooting basketball hoops…and as for the smell of bacon from their kitchen…when we’re having croissants …and on…and on,..and on…
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Aveline

I often give up on those long, long posts.

I never even attempt to read them. 😖

I wonder if this thread might lead to a reduction in those long unpunctuated opening posts. Hope so.

Good point. So do I. Not wanting to be unsympathetic, but it's so hard to read some of them.

No paragraphs, no (or completely incorrect) punctuation, inappropriate capitals - I too have difficulty making sense of these posts.