How long does it take other to write a typical LW post or comment?
I perceive myself as a very slow writer, but I might just have unrealistic expectations.
Depends on the comment. Mine are almost all rewrites, so anything that's not a short answer to a simple factual question takes me at least a couple of minutes. The upper bound is probably ≈2 hours.
If I remember rightly, this one took almost that long, and would've taken longer if I'd tried to polish it and not have it end in disjointed bullet points. There are quite a few reasons why that comment was so time-consuming: it was lengthy; it was a response to criticism, so I wanted to make it very obviously correct; I wanted to refer to lots of examples and so...
This is a thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. The previous thread is at close to 500 comments.