Shorter the post - Quicker the answer!

[Anonymous]

Quick note to all those folks with posts that go un answered...

Keep them short!!!! If you need to create more than one post to get your answers, then do that.

I come here to these boards daily to try and make a contribution or help with an answer to a question that no one else has and I end up crossing my eyes at 200 word essays.

Help us... Help You!

Sorry for the rant.

Take Care.

Rob

[Anonymous]

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FICO_Focused wrote:

Quick note to all those folks with posts that go un answered...

Keep them short!!!! If you need to create more than one post to get your answers, then do that.

I come here to these boards daily to try and make a contribution or help with an answer to a question that no one else has and I end up crossing my eyes at 200 word essays.

Help us... Help You!

Sorry for the rant.

Take Care.

Rob

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Hit the nail on the head FICO. There is no need to explain how you got where you are....we have all been there or are still there.

Don't be embarrassed to ask the same question more then once. clearing credit can be very confusing!.

[MidnightVoice]

[Anonymous]

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HappyDays wrote:

Hit the nail on the head FICO. There is no need to explain how you got where you are....we have all been there or are still there.

Don't be embarrassed to ask the same question more then once. clearing credit can be very confusing!.

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Yeah I almost think there should be a sticky stating something similar for all to read.

Rob

[MidnightVoice]

Bump for title

[score_building]

thanks for this post.  i can be a good editor but almost unreadable writer at times . your reminder can be helpful for newbies and vets alike!

[Anonymous]

How else is my novel going to get published? - Thanks myFICO!

[Anonymous]

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debtisgood wrote:

How else is my novel going to get published? - Thanks myFICO!

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ROFL. Ditto that sentiment!

[Anonymous]

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FICO_Focused wrote:

Quick note to all those folks with posts that go un answered...

Keep them short!!!! If you need to create more than one post to get your answers, then do that.

I come here to these boards daily to try and make a contribution or help with an answer to a question that no one else has and I end up crossing my eyes at 200 word essays.

Help us... Help You!

Sorry for the rant.

Take Care.

Rob

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I agree and disagree. While brevity is an admirable goal, I often see this turn of events:

Poster posts a brief question, keeping it short and sweet.

Two more posters copy and paste the original post, and ask three or four follow questions, which are necessary before they can accurately respond to the original question.

Seems to me that it's easier to just put in all pertinent facts in the original post, and avoid the inevitable follow-up questions.

Just my opinion.

[Anonymous]

I wholeheartedly agree Cheech. Even the ones (such as myself) who post all the info the 1st time around end up answering additional questions just to get an answer to the original post (and a lot of times the info asked is in the original post in my case). I prefer short and sweet but obviously this "credit thing" isn't a rabbit's race...

To my defense though, I bullet point my actual questions at the end of my novel for those that want to "get to the point." My posts create a happy medium for those that want to skim but if you simply do that and avoid the "novel"...sometimes you end up being one of the ones that ask something already stated in the "novel."