I type a lot and people use that to argue I'm mad or take a topic too serious.

[Nonek]

Spot on.

[Rosveen]

Then again this somewhat lies in the nature of English as the largest of languages (not most spoken,)

I've heard it before, I never found the source. Where do you take it from?

 

As for walls of text, you aren't talking to yourself. If you want to engage the reader, you need to write in a format they can easily digest and respond to. An essay works well as a blog post, but not so much in a forum debate, especially a fast-moving one. Similarly, raising several points in one post often deviates from the original topic of discussion and discourages people from reading at all if they have to wade through unrelated observations to get to the main point. There's nothing inherently wrong with long-winded posts - but if you want to be heard, you need to adapt to your interlocutor. Brevity is a valuable skill.

Edited August 20, 2015 by Rosveen

[Nonek]

 

Then again this somewhat lies in the nature of English as the largest of languages (not most spoken,)

 

I've heard it before, I never found the source. Where do you take it from?

 

It's almost impossible to clarify absolutely, but the differing heritages of the English language and the words it accomodates has granted it an enormous range, from Gaelic, Greek, Latin, French, Norse, Saxon, Dutch, German, Indian and such, there are very few languages with as wide a range. However in reality this is contestable, for instance Finnish with its tendency to mush words together means that there are near an infinite variety of new words one can make on the fly, i've forgotten the name for this. Generally English is just accepted as the largest of languages, there has been no definite study done at this point that i'm aware of.

 

It's growing at a staggering rate as well, with text speak and various new terms being added every year.

[Amentep]

You should see my posts *before* I edit them down.

 

Or the fun, ranty ones I type out full of fire and fervor bur never post.

 

[Hurlshort]

Hah, I probably hit the back button instead of post about half the time I type up stuff.  I do a lot of self-censorship.  

[Gfted1]

I back out of a lot of posts too but its usually because it wasn't as funny/interesting in text as it sounded in my head.

[Longknife]

Here, a perfect example came up of what I mean: https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/3i1fvu/how_team_fortress_2_perfectly_illustrates_the/cudoy1f

 

 

As others have highlighted...?

No, I shouldn't bother with people like this, and of course, it's just an internet discussion so who cares.
The only reason I can give for why I bother is because I know there's been moments in my life where I was certain someone was wrong or an idiot or something, and I was so deadset on my personal opinion and mindset, and then I grew older and found that looking back on it, I was ignorant as ****. I get in discussions a lot about all sorts of topics cause I'm either eager to be proven wrong and learn something (then or later) OR I like to think like just like I've personally experienced, there are times when people I've spoken to have remembered things I've said and it's helped them change their minds. (then or later) I like to think that, anyways.

[Malcador]

It's some one on reddit, you never bother with them. Well ok, they are fun to troll especially ones with an agenda

[Blarghagh]

I feel that the correct point to give up on these discussions is when they start discussing the person rather than the topic at hand (not that I consistently follow said guideline myself, as I'm not innocent of ad hominem). That guy started out not discussing the technical advantages or disadvantages of PC that the topic was about, but directly started about "PC users that write long threads" (i.e. a turnaround way to say you). At that point he's already proven to be conversational garbage and should not be bothered with.