[quote=@Fabricant451]
I don't think long post should be measured specifically in word count. Your post can be 400 words and be too long because it's a goddamn chore to get through and your post can be 5,000 words and not long enough.
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nah

bad writing doesn't make a post long, it makes a post bad. a one liner could be the worst one liner written and it might be funny to call it 'too long' but it is, by no extent of the meaning of that word or any word even close to it, a long post.

unless we are going by the definition that 'too long' is not the same as plain old 'long' in which case yeah sure but that's not really what i asked.

[quote=@tex]
	When it comes to length, I wouldn't consider a post to be 'long' unless it overstays its welcome.[/quote]

so an essay worth of roleplaying posts that requires you to separate your post into 3 subsequent posts in rapid succession is not 'long' to you so long as it's well written, but a one liner that overstays it welcome (strange way of categorizing it, gonna assume you mean the same as fabricant above) is 'long?' 

	[quote]The issue that comes up when people 'prettify' their writing, is that many young readers will flop over and applaud when they see 5 adjectives in one sentence.[/quote]

you mean like adding artificial indents like you were writing a paper? in all seriousness i have yet to once see someone have five adjectives in one sentence, and even if that were to be hyperbole, i barely ever see anything resembling that type of fluff.

	[quote]In what sense? Does it have any pertinence?
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in my experience better writers write longer posts (though longer posts are not indicative of good writing... that's an important notion to make here, hence the quality=/=quantity) simply because they know their way around prose better and can write longer posts, expositioning more of their character, without having to resort to artificial fluffing of a post. in other words.. the additional length of the post they gain is used for the right purpose and, thus, is part of good writing, and therefore is interesting to read.

we could play your game where we condense everything while remaining true to the key points, in which case a carefully written dialogue between (a character) and (their NPC mother) on the phone in the morning during the morning routine turns into 'their mother called in the morning and then they left.' it's just a question of which you prefer.

of course, my experience is purely anecdotal, but then again so are five adjectives in one sentence, so i feel relatively comfortable using anecdotal evidence here.