[quote=Prince]Not everyone enjoys Shakespearean literature, nor even understand it, but that doesn't lower its quality.[/quote]

[i]"Brevity is the soul of wit."[/i] -William Shakespeare.

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[b]On-Topic:[/b] When someone confuses quantity for quality. No I don't care that you needed to spend three paragraphs to describe how a brush moved in the wind as you gently caressed your dead lover's locket: Unless that brush is coming up again in the future, it's merely an unfired Chekhov's Gun, and you are wasting the time of everyone reading it.

Detail has its place in fiction and is dependent on the scene, which is in turn dictated by the author. Isaac Asimov is as wordy as he is because he has to describe fantastical inventions that nobody could really grasp with a one liner description. He used his descriptions to suck you into worlds typically full of vacuum tubes and magnetic technologies. On the other hand, take world of warcraft role playing: The entire world is painted out in great detail for you. Having massive expository dialogue would be a waste of time there, the only thing you should be focusing on are subtle actions and dialogue. Same goes for movies: The rule is show, don't tell.

There comes a time for detail and exposition. Think of it like... Food, and your story is your child. If you stuff your child nonstop with food, especially sugary purple prose, your child will inflate until they have coronary heart failure and need to be moved with a bulldozer into their grave. At the same time, if you don't feed them enough, they become anorexic, without detail or substance or flavour, and they die.

tl;dr: Posts are children. Feed them a good diet please, it's hard enough to take care of our own children, leave alone when your 300 pound scooter riding fuck gets stuck in the door so nobody can get past it.