Question for Oppo:  Pictures or words?

"VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely" (vajazzlemcdildertits) 07/27/2017 at 20:37 • Filed to: None

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Now, before you say “both” - I think reader fatigue is a thing, or tl;dr wouldn’t exist. Part of good writing is learning how to clearly express things in a concise format. But some people really dig word content, and others are visual.

So what are you, Oppo? Are you visual, or literal? Do you like crayons? Are they tasty? Are cucumbers genuinely better pickled? Let me know.

Wacko > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 07/27/2017 at 20:40

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Wacko > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 07/27/2017 at 20:40

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BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 07/27/2017 at 20:49

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Cucumbers are better pickled. I hate regular cucumbers, but love kosher dill pickles.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 07/27/2017 at 20:59

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For this post? Neither. A poll would do nicely.

Urambo Tauro > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 07/27/2017 at 20:59

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If words are the “meat and potatoes” of an article, then pictures are kind of like seasoning. Words are essential, but pictures can make an article much easier and enjoyable to “consume”.

I LOVE pictures. Not just for visual stimulation, but sometimes you just need to see something for yourself. It helps with absorption, too. Sometimes information can be delivered better, easier, and faster at a glance, rather than spelling it all out in text. “A picture is worth a thousand words” and all that...

How to find the right balance, though? I don’t know. I guess one pic every... hm, let’s say... oh, three to five paragraphs? Yeah, that’s pretty good, I think. It should be spaced out, too. Kinja doesn’t let us do slideshow galleries anyway (I think FP authors can, though), so it’s better to sprinkle pics throughout a post.

RallyWrench > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 07/27/2017 at 21:01

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Depends on format. I read a lot of real, paper books, mostly nonfiction, none of which have pictures, and if they’re engaging I don’t care if they’re long. They take me elsewhere and cultivate my imagination. If I’m scrolling through a news site or story, I like mostly literal because, for example, a picture of Mitch McConnell walking down a hallway does not explain what is happening on Capitol Hill on any given day. I prefer long-form journalism that tells a story in depth. Not necessarily high word count, but whatever it takes to give all the information relevant to the story, maybe a few useful pictures. The exception is something like a trip report on Overland or a Speedhunters feature, then give me all the pictures. Little news bites are part of our problem, people react to headlines and the first sentence without understanding an issue.

If it’s Kinja, give me pictures and dank memes because scrolling sucks.

Pickles Crayons are delicious.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 07/27/2017 at 21:05

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I tried, but the embedding failed no matter how I tried to tweak the html. I tried another and the link failed to preview properly. I thought about it and decided some other stuff going on had to come first. I humbly apologize and aspire to be better.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > RallyWrench 07/27/2017 at 21:08

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Maybe I’ll change my alias to Pickles Crayons so that people will take my content more seriously.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Wacko 07/27/2017 at 21:09

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I find it really circumstantial that you somehow managed to post this twice.

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 07/27/2017 at 22:18

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pictures

my attention span is 5 seconds long

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 07/27/2017 at 22:36

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Succinct. I like it.

Wacko > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 07/27/2017 at 23:54

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Don’t blame me, that’s all kinja

pip bip - choose Corrour > VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely 07/28/2017 at 05:02

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i’m more of a visual kind of guy.