Posting style and reading comprehension

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Bad spelling and grammar doesn't really bother me.

I do try and read most recent posts on WP, but I do have problems with the really long ones with no spaces in between the sentences.

Also, if it's a subject I don't understand. Like a lot of The L&D subjects, Adult issues and some of PPR.

I like to have a go though.

Well the one which I can not cope with is the wall of text with no gaps, and no pattern in it.

If the text contains spelling or gramma errors I will try to read it, but I feel who am I to point the finger and complain about english langauge. I know that many people are typing fast and in the heat of the moment some spelling errors will occur. The wrong planet is not a gaint spelling bee.

I do not mind if the text is long as long as it has a clear train of thought going through it, and it has different ideas split into different paragraphs.

I don't like text-speak. Like when people write 'u' for 'you'.

I have troubles reading long posts because I can't focus for too much time on them.
I also have troubles undersrandimg what people are trying to say in some posts.
Complicated posts are also difficult for me. I use a formal style and some "big words" when writing but I have a hard time getting what people are stating when they use a language that is too complicated. Formal language is ok because I can understand it better than the informal one, but still I have a hard time if people don't use an easy language.

I'm perfectly capable of reading what you write.

Most styles I don't have too much of an issue with. Most of it is to do with text being too small, text that is too bright against the background, spacing and not so much spelling or grammar.

I do have issues with comprehension, it usually take a lot of re-reads to understand complexities in wrighting. I use a different coloured text usually to help with reviewing my own post against others. It can be useful with large quote blocks or taking the brightness from bright white forums. WP is often not so bad in that endeavour.

I do have my own issues with dyslexia, but it's at least somewhat manageable.

This. It frustrates me because I find it sloppy and lazy. Even for a "hunt and peck" typist, two extra letters here and there should not take that much extra time; I don't use such abbreviations even while actually texting. I also have a hard time understanding many in-depth abstract concepts and philosophical discussions; I'm beginning to suspect I'm better at collecting information than assimilating it and creating new ideas from it. I find my philosophy classes almost as hard to grasp as the maths ones, so if I see someone going into a long abstract discussion, I'll skim it, if I read it at all.

I really hate text speech as well. Especially when they use it in an otherwise grammatically correct post. I once even saw one person saying stuff like u're.
Luckily I don't have very many problems with understanding abstract concepts. I recently got some kind of IQ test for disability and my best scores were language and abstract concepts. For the abstract concepts test I had to explain how two things were related. An easy question would be cars and airplanes and a more difficult one would be fence and anchor.

That's interesting, I took the WAIS-IV yesterday as part of my autism eval, and I got the same "similarities" questions. I thought I did fairly well on those. Now I'm confused; maybe it's just philosophy that's hard!

I don't get it either I couldn't even read past the first post I have glanced at it and tried to read it but I just cant understand.

You're not missing much. 90% of the stuff there is just unedited rambling. It looks long and intellectual, but if you actually read it you realize that she barely ever stuck to one topic or got her point across.

Yes this happens to me a lot I often have to look up words and break things down sentence by sentence in order to understand it.

While I do that to a degree in the teen forums, I avoid anything like that here.
If it's any comfort, most of the members on the teen forums prefer proper spelling
and grammar too - except when we are in game threads.

What frustrates me is when people use text speak anywhere other than a text message. I understand that texts usually have a limited amount of space, but you're allowed to type much more than 160 characters on the internet. Perhaps some people grow so accustomed to typing that way on their phones that they unconsciously apply it online as well.

As for any large wall of text-breaks are a must, especially if you're integrating several different ideas. If you think about it, it's just a written form of conversation. People generally find it easier to take your points in if you pause before transitioning into another idea. Without them, they sound like a cluster of details which go on and on, and that's difficult to keep track of.

It used to really get me, but I got more tolerant to it when I started talking to a lot of blind people. They tend to have very strange spelling mistakes because if a word is pronounced correctly by a screenreader they don't register it as a mispelling unless they actually teach themselves to look for it.

My reading comprehension requires that paragraphs are sorted in a way that are dealable. So basically, nothing like, spamming a bunch of words in a long sentence. I can't process more than one paragraph at a time, and when they get too big I simply cannot read it without splitting it into smaller parts. Very frustrating when people decide to write a long paragraph of nothing and I can't read it because they wanted to write it as one huge paragraph instead of splitting it into a few smaller ones.

I really dislike reading text speak. Common abbreviations like LOL or WTF are okay. But when people say "u" and "ur" or use numbers to represent letters it is really hard to read.

I usually don't mind spelling, punctuation or grammar mistakes. They are bound to happen for all kinds of reasons and most of the time the post is still totally readable. I don't like seeing other people correct those mistakes, it comes off as petty and judgmental.

I think sometimes it is actually easier to read English written by people who are not native English speakers, because they tend to use simpler, verb-oriented phrasing.

I usually just skip over wall of text posts, unless I think it may be really interesting or valuable to read, it is too much trouble.

I don't like to read posts where people are having a long debate, it gets too frustrating to keep track of who said what, and what they are responding to. It is easier to understand when people just put their own ideas into stand-alone posts. I don't want to read through 10 pages of posts to understand what the last post is about.

Also, have not seen this at all here but I find it very rude and immature when people write inside jokes to each other on a forum, or otherwise write comments that are obviously intended for only certain people to understand.