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Review annoyances
May. 31st, 2009 05:27 pmI think I have a new pet peeve. As some of you know I've been researching ebook readers lately. I've read a few hundred user reviews across a dozen or so sites and one thing really stands out. More than half of the reviews are written by people who insert LOL or ROFL at seemingly random intervals throughout their writing. It makes for obnoxious reading and quite frankly my first thought when I see this kind of thing is to wonder what kind of idiot is this?
Second peeve are those who seem to feel a strange need to apologize for length when the sum total of their post is under 500 words. If it's under 500 words it's not long! Blazes, if it's under 1,000 words it's probably not over long. If it's worth writing someone somewhere will find it worth reading. Stop assuming your readers have the attention span of a 3 year old on a sugar high! If you have something to say then say it and use as few or as many words as you need.
Second peeve are those who seem to feel a strange need to apologize for length when the sum total of their post is under 500 words. If it's under 500 words it's not long! Blazes, if it's under 1,000 words it's probably not over long. If it's worth writing someone somewhere will find it worth reading. Stop assuming your readers have the attention span of a 3 year old on a sugar high! If you have something to say then say it and use as few or as many words as you need.
