- dahuterschuter
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-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.
Well, I'm going to read your first paragraph, make this post, then read the rest and see how well I do. You'll have to just keep me on the honour system here.
Yes, most forum users will choose short, rapid-fire information threads over longwinded ideas any day. We grew up in the age of instant gratification, we have no attention span. Generally users don't attend the forums to think about complex issues which demand more than a paragraph to articulate, it's just for short sound-bites of discussion on something simple. Which is why the "rubbish," threads thrive, there's more interest for their compact nature.
As usual, Bill Watterson has made a relevant statement: "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway."
-Calvin (A child of the age of instant gratification.)
That's the mentality.
EDIT: Not bad. My short attention span didn't do me in this time at least.
[Edited on 01.17.2012 9:27 AM PST]