Why are people writing OPs in the Community Feature Submissions thread

[neger psykolog]

Have you tried just writing shorter posts?

 

[Syntaxion]

Brevity is the wit of soul

It's autism. You're on KiwiFarms™
That speaks for itself

 

[Polyarmory]

If you can't hook a reader with a sentence or two in the Community Happenings thread, why should you expect people to be grabbed by the feature itself? I think a better way to do this would be to do your writeup in the thread itself (with the explanation that you're writing it for the Community Happenings thread), and link to that contextpost inside of the thread.

That would provide the context to whom it's most needed: The end-users who are passively consuming the features, and have no idea who your cow is or why they should care.

 

[neger psykolog]

If you can't hook a reader with a sentence or two in the Community Happenings thread, why should you expect people to be grabbed by the feature itself? I think a better way to do this would be to do your writeup in the thread itself (with the explanation that you're writing it for the Community Happenings thread), and link to that contextpost inside of the thread.

That would provide the context to whom it's most needed: The end-users who are passively consuming the features, and have no idea who your cow is or why they should care.

The Community Happenings thread and the "feature" thing are two separate things. There are often things that are featured that are never posted in the community happenings thread.

Just because something is posted in the Community Happenings thread does not mean its only purpose is to see whether it is viable or not to be featured across the forum. People read the happenings thread to see all updates and mods remove/delete/ban users who post stupid/pointless updates quite rapidly.

From literally the first line of the thread:

Don't worry if your happening is too insignificant; the current problem is that people don't really use it enough.

 

[Mound Dweller]

The verbose sesquipedalian loquaciousness is a nice change of pace from the usual "no u NIGAAA".
That said brevity is the soul of wit; you don't need 4 fucking paragraphs of infodump to explain to me why this fat retard you're telling me about for the first time getting their ass-blasted in public is funny it ought tot be funny on it's own apparent merits, I do like the lore-dumps but they clutter the thread and should be spoiled if they're longer than a couple of sentences for the sake of speed-reading IMO.

 

[Ted Kaczynski]

Autism is the answer. Also spite. mobilefags must die. enjoy reading long text, stalker child

 

[#FreeRoss]

Autism is the answer. Also spite. mobilefags must die. enjoy reading long text, stalker child

Okay, let me just get this out of the way: some of you are absolutely unbearable when it comes to posting. I get it, you think you're some literary genius with something profound to say, but when I scroll through your post and see paragraph after paragraph of "deep insights" and "necessary context," I immediately want to close the tab and block the site.

Nobody needs to read your 3,000-word dissertation on why you think a YouTuber's new thumbnail is "problematic." Newsflash: NO ONE CARES. You're writing for the sake of writing, not for the sake of actually conveying information. Just because you can type a novel doesn't mean you should.

People on this site aren't looking for your life story. If you're not making a solid point within the first few sentences, you're already lost. People who spend forever crafting these long, convoluted rants are basically just proving they have too much free time and no self-awareness.

TL;DR: If you can't express yourself in less than 500 words, maybe try keeping your thoughts to yourself next time. You're wasting everyone's time, including your own.

 

[neger psykolog]

TL;DR: If you can't express yourself in less than 500 words, maybe try keeping your thoughts to yourself next time. You're wasting everyone's time, including your own.

 

[Travis Touchdown (REAL)]

"Reeee, I have to scroll down a bit in order to read your full post!"
Bait used to be believable

 

[stupid frog]

@neger psykolog is a shit stirrer, he be stirrin' shit.

 

[neger psykolog]

@neger psykolog is a shit stirrer, he be stirrin' shit.

Just a little bit, but I am genuinely interested to see what more people think about it. I think its a useful discussion to have and to see if people really, really hate slightly longer posts or not.

 

[stupid frog]

Just a little bit, but I am genuinely interested to see what more people think about it. I think its a useful discussion to have and to see if people really, really hate slightly longer posts or not.

Like most posts, I just scroll past if I don't care about the content. I might be dumb for thinking this was normal.

 

[ICanLurkNoMore]

I actually quite like longer CH posts tbh, and I'm a phoneposter most of the time
I like a bit of context with my funny

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

I think a post in the Happenings thread should be just enough to give a explanation of why anyone should give a shit, and that's it. What seems like actual topic OP's are annoying.

I had a Community Happenings post jannied for being "too long" a couple of weeks back.

I then re-wrote it entirely in Newspeak to improve its brevity:

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This got jannied too. LITERALLY 1984.

Have you considered that maybe they just hate you?

 

[Hooked on phobics]

"WOOP WOOP Pull over that post is too fat!"

Seriously though, I think the highlighted post is a bit TOO big, you could condense it down with multiple links like this to compress information down, and practice brievety. I ALSO disagree that it should be limited to a few sentences. as I think it should be just enough to explain the basic scenario for people to determine if its interesting or not, and thats not ALWAYS possible with so little, but I think @neger psykolog could reduce post size no problem.

IE : "this cunt did the garfield resteraunt, hes a werido, heres why hes being mentioned, heres thread"
You don't need to detail everything, I generally shoot for something that gives a general idea of the scenario. People like it, they click for more. People don't, they ignore it.

THIS SAID, this isn't THAT big of a bother to me anyway so eh..

 

[John Andrews Stan]

I see too many people using the Community Happenings thread to post multiple videos embedded in such a way that the entire page will fail to load in Chrome, making it impossible to read or report their retardation.

A lot of people also use the thread to give updates on previous posts that would be more suitable as updates to the thread in question. Attention-seekers love to harvest stickers like they’re worth real money.

 

[Mark Goldbridge]

Agreed, paragraph max of the HAPPENING, then if you want additional context put it in a spoiler

 

[neger psykolog]

IE : "this cunt did the garfield resteraunt, hes a werido, heres why hes being mentioned, heres thread"
You don't need to detail everything, I generally shoot for something that gives a general idea of the scenario. People like it, they click for more. People don't, they ignore it.

The Garfield guy is an interesting one, I provided just 3 examples (believe me there were way more) to give an everyday person an idea of why he is so interesting and it results in people actually taking an interest in the person thread, just like this:

Just finished binging this thread, and wow, how the hell is this guy not talked about more?

but I think @neger psykolog could reduce post size no problem.

I'll try to work on it some more. I don't generally plan out what I'm going to post though so I feel like I'm a struggling artist having to work with an advertising company who are trying to tell me how I should paint - I think some more spoiler tags would be a pretty good compromise though (as other people have suggested)

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

This could be fixed by using spoiler tags more often to contain this autism. Have a paragraph of text, 1 video/image, thread link(s), and a giant spoiler for anything else.

You can also have multiple spoilers, with [SPOILER="Descriptions of their contents"], [SPOILER]spoilers [SPOILER]nested in other spoilers[/SPOILER][/SPOILER], etc. Full length novels? No problem, just hide it.

Spoilers should also prevent the videos from initializing and killing people using their slow Cortex-A53 devices.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

I skim the long posts that I'm not actually interested in no problem but some of you faggots have too big of an ego and clog my oculars with journalist-tier bullshit that just makes it look like you don't care about the subject at all.