[quote=@Sierra]
For everyone seemingly in agreement that it's bad, I don't see a lot of tackling of the question "why?"

[i]Why[/i] do so many people conflate quality with quantity? As someone running an RP in the advanced section that seemingly has not incurred this problem to remotely the same degree as the cited examples, do I just have really wonderful players or is there something that provokes this (and by extension, can be done to avoid it)?
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Quality =/= quantity but they are intrinsically related in [i]most[/i] cases. I'm not reading a post for skill involved either, I'm reading a post because I want to indulge myself in a literary experience (that sounds inflated, but I imagine it sounds better than 'lul i like read word') and longer posts with more details achieve that better than short posts with little details, even if the end result is the same (which is why free roleplay consists primarily of characters performing actions, not so much characters having an actual life). 

I've also never incurred this problem, neither in the same degree or even lesser degree. I'm of the opinion that it is subjective -- people see a wall of words and instead of going 'hey, I can read that' decide 'I don't [i]want[/i] to read that' and shove it aside as NEEDLESS FLUFF without really sitting down to read it properly and try to enjoy it, just because they need an excuse to not read it.