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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 8388209" data-attributes="member: 7808">I'm going to come to jgsugden's defense here, because I can relate and I don't think it's a complaint specific to this one post.  It's a trait of many, many thread openings from Snarf.  And it actually makes me less likely to take part in a discussion I would otherwise engage in.  You know that feeling when you look at a thread with an interesting title, then realize it's already 20 pages long?  You're left with the choice of spending way too long reading stuff you know is meaningless trying to catch up with where the thread has gone, or just jump in ignoring 95% of the thread?  That's basically how I feel about one of Snarf's threads after the very first post.  And the end result is that I'm less likely to join in because Snarf is essentially making the barrier to entry of the thread too high.  I know it's not intended as such, but it sometimes comes across as a form of gatekeeping; if you want to discuss this topic, you must endure this meandering wall of text to get to it.That being said, I have never once in the past confronted them about this for exactly the reason you mention.  It's not my thread, and I have no business telling another poster to change their writing style around my preferences.  But since we're already half a dozen posts into discussing the meta-issue at this point, I feel empowered enough to throw in my two cents.  So, [USER=7023840]@Snarf Zagyg[/USER] , keep doing what your doing, I don't expect the world to change around me, and some people like it.  But it would definitely help if you could add some sort of a summary or a TL;DR at the end of your posts.  Some of us (maybe just me?) are more likely to join in if you do.</blockquote>

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