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    Player xiozen's Avatar
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    A posting suggesting to community:

    Adopt this principle when posting will help all who have to read your posts: KISS

    Keep

    It

    Short

    &

    Simple

    Lets try not to create "walls of text" if you want the devs or anyone else to read it.

    Thanks!
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    That's not what that acronym stands for...
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    Keep it simple, stupid!
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    No, people should not adopt that principle. People should say what they need to say to get the job done. If you can't read a so called "wall of text, " then you have a problem with laziness. Some things just can't be made one/two liners.
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    Wall of text is just a complete slop of words in 1 giant paragraph. A well structured, long post is not a wall of text.
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    Player Babekeke's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rafien View Post
    Wall of text is just a complete slop of words in 1 giant paragraph. A well structured, long post is not a wall of text.
    Correct, unfortunately 50% of the community don't understand paragraphs, grammar and punctuation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Babekeke View Post
    Correct, unfortunately 50% of the community don't understand paragraphs, grammar and punctuation.
    This is why I think everyone should, at one point in their lives, work as an email support agent. I also enjoy a well-structured and informative post and hate that some people keep making those walls.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
    No, people should not adopt that principle. People should say what they need to say to get the job done. If you can't read a so called "wall of text, " then you have a problem with laziness. Some things just can't be made one/two liners.
    I'm seriously not going to read a huge wall-of-text because people can't be assed to hit the enter key a few times and space their paragraphs. People who type like this need to realize that if they want people to read their posts much less take them seriously, they have to give their readers some breathing space between paragraphs.

    It's simple basic stuff that any person who learned to read in grade school should have picked up.
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    Player Alhanelem's Avatar
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    Well, I agree. But a lot of people treat both as the same thing.
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    I have a better suggestion. People should learn what punctuation marks, sentences, and paragraphs are intended to do. Long posts are often needed to explain a game mechanic or a situation. Posts that read like a kindergartener's essay on what he wants to be when he grows up are not needed and certainly not wanted.

    For some people who post here English is a second or third language, and oddly enough, their posts are usually pretty simple to read. I assume this is because they put roughly two seconds of effort into making their posts readable. It's not hard!
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