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> Only a minority, and for that they often get told to "Cut down on the wall of text/gish gallop" because anything that's longer than a Tweet is nowadays consid
by mr_toad 4y ago
> Only a minority, and for that they often get told to "Cut down on the wall of text/gish gallop" because anything that's longer than a Tweet is nowadays considered something bad.
tl; dr. was a thing long before Reddit.
I have nothing against long-form writing, but most people lack the writing and editing skills needed to make more than a few sentences enjoyable to read.
- freeflight 4y agoBut there is quite a difference between TL;DR and accusing people of wall of text/gish gallop. TL;DR is is an admittance that somebody couldn't be bothered to read something long, that's fair enough because they admit it's their choice. While accusing other people of wall of text/gish gallop is something very different; There the blame isn't put on the person who can't be bothered to read long text, and instead is wholesale put on the person that put in the effort to write the long text. The consequence is that fewer people write long form text, fewer people put in a lot of work into writing such texts, so overall we end up with less of these texts, which is a loss for everybody as the online discourse continues to become even more shallow and anti-intellectual.