Why are people writing OPs in the Community Feature Submissions thread

[lol cow supreme]

It takes almost no effort to scroll past non thumbnailed images. yet we are stuck with fag ass thumbnails to appease the mobile Obama phone community...

if an image is too long. Just skip it my niggas.

 

[3deadniggers]

Rekieta spergs are specially bad at this concept and will put entire live stream summaries in a community happening.

Don't they only follow him so closely because he betrayed their gay internet cult? His threads already read like slighted exs upset their based lawyer turned out to be a weirdo.

I agree, and I vaguely recall Null actually telling some guy (it may have been @Balldo's Gate) to knock it off with all the Rekieta updates, or make them more concise, or something, when it was at its peak. This was when the Balldo News Network logo appeared at the top of every post.

They got their own board for posting about him constantly.

 

[Green Knight]

I don't know if my autism as an ever-lurker has missed someone saying this in this thread already, but if I am capable of getting the gist of the entire situation with a Community Happening post alone despite not even knowing who the cow is, then that's too long for me. No much point in checking a thread because "man known for shoving bottles up his ass" goes and, god forbid, shoves another thing down there.

 

[Gobermental Supervisor]

I agree, the recent posts with dozens of lines and multitude of images are annoying. They clutter the community happenings and make scrolling to find interesting topics less fun.
1 Picture + 1 Link + Descriptive Sentence should be enough to get the content across, the rest can be in the linked thread.

 

[Edward "Caesar" Sallow]

When I write an occasional happening, I want to engage the reader. To me, it's about getting other people interested in what you find interesting. So while I don't think a post should take up half a page, I do think it should be of a decent size. Three sentances tells me that the writer has no real passion for what they are posting, and why be the one to write it if you have no passion in the first place. I am for a few, short paragraphs and a pic or two, to best emphasize what you want others to see.

I'm also a massize narcissist, and I gives me a massive chubby when I write.

 

[William Tyndale]

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.

We will never know because of the anonymous nature of this website, but I wonder if the divide between liking (and writing) short-versus-long posts is actually generational. Older kiwis like the long drawn out info dump and the younger ones prefer the “lmao gayyyy” posts.

 

[neger psykolog]

Ok a perfect example just came up and its of course totally bizarre and unpredictable - some nigga lit a few million dollars worth of cryptocurrency on fire to spread a message that brain computer interfaces have been deployed/weaponized at scale within China: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/community-feature-submissions.114933/post-20615160

This is the exact kind of posts/story that REALLY requires some explanation I think and a lengthy post is actually warranted. The situation/message is so bizarre that I of course had to include what they wrote pretty much directly and if more information comes up I will append it to the post - this is fascinating shit.

If I were to just do a one or even two sentence description of it, it really wouldn't do it justice. I also have to assume that 90% of people reading won't even understand what "burned" means so I have to explain that.

 

[Croak & Caw]

When I write an occasional happening, I want to engage the reader<...>

Pretty sure your posts are not the subject of discussion. They look relatively concise.

I don't think we need complicated "Code of Conduct" for CH though. That is the tranny way. I read the first 2 or 3 lines, look at pretty pictures (if any) and am ready to decide if I want to read more, go to the thread or scroll past. Maybe put a reaction if I am feeling extra frisky.

Spoiler: example of how I see a long CH post

 

[Morrowind: GOTY Edition]

I'll chime in with my completely unsolicited and unimportant opinion, that a CH post is ideally only a paragraph or two long. Context, situation, explanation, and that's it. The community happenings post is merely meant to update informed users, or otherwise make users aware of, a lolcow, and give a quick update on a situation in the works. The reason you are required to link to the discussion is so anyone seeking additional information can quickly and easily find what they need.

When I see someone write a whole goddamned OP in the CH thread, my eyes glaze over and I immediately scroll down, disinterested in investing the time or effort to find out what the schizobabble flooding my quick updates page is about.

The reason why newspapers and websites find success with the "above the fold" method is simply because nobody is going to read a headline that is a paragraph long. People want to see "MAN LANDS ON MOON" or "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN," and buy the issue to learn more.

 

[PunkinMan]

The post got removed lol

The reason why newspapers and websites find success with the "above the fold" method is simply because nobody is going to read a headline that is a paragraph long. People want to see "MAN LANDS ON MOON" or "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN," and buy the issue to learn more.

True, half my posts in community happenings are lazy but I will still try to make them eye catching, never have I had to make a post that has been over a paragraph long.

Shit like this is fucking autistic, let people read the thread you don't have to make constant updates unless they are really important that they require more context

 

[3deadniggers]

When I write an occasional happening, I want to engage the reader. To me, it's about getting other people interested in what you find interesting. So while I don't think a post should take up half a page, I do think it should be of a decent size. Three sentances tells me that the writer has no real passion for what they are posting, and why be the one to write it if you have no passion in the first place. I am for a few, short paragraphs and a pic or two, to best emphasize what you want others to see.

I'm also a massize narcissist, and I gives me a massive chubby when I write.

Reader engagement isn't based on the length of the post. One of the things I learned when I first got into hobby communities online is the people who like to talk rarely have passion like the ones who get to the point. Writing an essay to try and appeal to people is worse than getting to the point and writing something short and informative. It's easy to write lots of words and say very little, but it takes skill and knowledge to write very little and say a very lot.

We will never know because of the anonymous nature of this website, but I wonder if the divide between liking (and writing) short-versus-long posts is actually generational. Older kiwis like the long drawn out info dump and the younger ones prefer the “lmao gayyyy” posts.

I'm not a young one and I don't like huge posts in the community happenings. I'm browsing to see what catches my eye not to read full articles. I'm okay with reading large posts once I know what it's about but not to begin with. The thread should be elevator pitches not novels. If I like your pitch I can read your novel afterwards.

 

[neger psykolog]

The post got removed lol

Shit like this is fucking autistic, let people read the thread you don't have to make constant updates unless they are really important that they require more context

It's kind of impossible since its a very new/developing story. There is no news article that covers the story.

There's really no easy way to summarize "there's some crazy ass guy from china burning money to send a message about weaponized brain-computer interfaces and people are sending him messages" since the story is still developing - it is also comprised of a lot of original research.

 

[Poonocchio]

There's really no easy way to summarize "there's some crazy ass guy from china burning money to send a message about weaponized brain-computer interfaces and people are sending him messages" since the story is still developing.

No h8 but you kinda just did it there..

 

[neger psykolog]

No h8 but you kinda just did it there..

Yeah only because I now know a lot more about the story. It's similar to when there is a shooting or something and someone goes back and edits the original post. I've seen that done plenty of times before.

 

[valerian]

Personally I can skim every post fast enough to see if anything might interest me in it all while im scrolling down and it takes not even 30 seconds until im at the bottom of the page, maybe just learn how to read faster.

 

[3deadniggers]

Yeah only because I now know a lot more about the story. It's similar to when there is a shooting or something and someone goes back and edits the original post. I've seen that done plenty of times before.

There's some crazy ass guy from China is burning over 1 Billion dollars in crypto currency to send messages about weaponized brain-computer interfaces being forced on people by the Chinese military and company workers. He has donated large sums to the Ukraine, Wikileaks and a burner account that destroys any coins sent to it to get attention on his messages. The story is still developing so head over to the thread to learn more.

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Spoiler transcript of the image.

That's all it needs to be.

 

[neger psykolog]

There's some crazy ass guy from China is burning over 1 Billion dollars in crypto currency to send messages about weaponized brain-computer interfaces being forced on people by the Chinese military and company workers. He has donated large sums to the Ukraine, Wikileaks and a burner account that destroys any coins sent to it to get attention on his messages. The story is still developing so head over to the thread to learn more.

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Spoiler transcript of the image.

That's all it needs to be.

Wrong, poster child.
You can only write it like that because you know the full story now. When the story was first posted he had only burnt tokens, it only emerged later that he had donated a bunch too.

Your version is boring, like something CNN would write. You're trying to gentrify and globohomo kiwifarms. I want weird ass posts about weird ass people not some boiled down lifeless message.

This is what you want:

 

[3deadniggers]

Wrong, poster child.
You can only write it like that because you know the full story now. When the story was first posted he had only burnt tokens, it only emerged later that he had donated a bunch too.

Your version is boring, like something CNN would write. You're trying to gentrify and globohomo kiwifarms. I want weird ass posts about weird ass people not some boiled down lifeless message.

This is what you want:
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There's some crazy ass guy from China is burning over 1 Billion dollars in crypto currency to send messages about weaponized brain-computer interfaces being forced on people by the Chinese military and company workers. He sent the coins to a burner account that destroys them and makes them unrecoverable. Check out the thread here for more.

News papers and websites use headlines for a reason.

 

[neger psykolog]

There's some crazy ass guy from China is burning over 1 Billion dollars in crypto currency to send messages about weaponized brain-computer interfaces being forced on people by the Chinese military and company workers. He sent the coins to a burner account that destroys them and makes them unrecoverable. Check out the thread here for more.

News papers and websites use headlines for a reason.

I respect your position but I still disagree.

There's no fucking style guide/rule book like this is the Associated Press. There are plenty of community happenings posts that are bizarrely formatted and don't fit into the neat and tidy box that you would like them to.

 

[GunCar Gary]

giant wall of text response to giant wall of text community post

oh god he's doing it again. somebody put a stop to this madness