kpreid comments on Disconnect between Stated/Implemented Preferences - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: Strange7 17 March 2010 02:26AM

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Comment author: kpreid 18 March 2010 04:09:09PM 2 points [-]

This reminds me of that my highest rated so far answer at Stack Overflow was a big bullet pointed list.

I think the format itself (a list, where each item is at least a whole sentence) has a connotation of thoroughness and authority; and it reduces the TL;DR effect by presenting the content in small-but-not-trivial separable pieces.

Also, I see a “wall of text” as not having bullet points: being a series of long paragraphs without much structure visible without reading the text itself. The term is being misapplied to this comment in my opinion.