When you post, you immediately open the doors to criticism. One crucial thing to do when posting an idea is to keep it organized and as short as possible. I've been coding for 6 years now. Sure, when you start, your focus is on the execution: Does the project work as intended? - However, as you progress there's a huge focus on structure, readability, and commenting. If you throw caution to the wind, later on people might not be understand your methods and you'll have trouble editing.

If your paragraph exceeds 8-9 lines, there's a good chance players will skip over it. One way to get around this problem is by splitting your paragraphs into meaningful sections. Another super effective way is to explain your idea in a way that doesn't ramble on and on. Get to the point as quick as you can. I've read your posts before, and they're not easy to look at. Put special effort in making sure your posts have correct punctuation, spelling, etc.

This thread looks like a temper-tantrum, as if someone made you feel bad so you're stomping your feet around. The mature thing to do is to improve, not expect others to apologize for having an opinion.

Blandaxt, if you want my honest opinion, your long and thought-out suggestions typically are huge blocks of text that are hard to read. I mean that as there are little to no line breaks, no use of italics, bold, or lists to sort out the ideas, and often the suggestion lacks a fair amount of grammar. I can read through short paragraphs with little to no formatting, but huge threads built like that are a pain to read. If I get distracted or pulled away from my computer, I'd have no idea where I left off.

If you want a good example of long posts that are formatted well, take a look at Dracora-Speaking's (AKA, Novaster's) posts. They put a lot of time and effort into their posts, but they are also very easy to read through and understand.

This also isn't just a you thing. Anyone who writes without formatting (spaces between lines, lists to list things, etc) in a suggestion post or posts with lots of distracting characters gets a big red X in my mind. I simply cannot stay focused on them. If people then seek out my opinion on the matter, I will tell them I can't read what they wrote, or to condense it down into a version I will be able to read.

Hopefully this'll help you make easier-to-read high quality posts in the future. :)

The suggestions forum isn't a place where you should be if you can't articulate your thoughts into readable chunks that other forum-goers will understand. The first part of sharing ideas is being able to communicate them clearly to others. If you cannot do that, work on your communications before throwing your ideas to the wild.

If we can't read the suggestion, then we can't critique the suggestion. If you ask for critique on the suggestion and we can't read it, the only logical place to go is critiquing the communications. Once everyone is on the same page, then we can enhance and move the suggestion along.

I said it on another post and I'll say it here again: more detail =/= more words. It all depends on what words you use, not how many you have.
And in the future, if any of you have a personal conflict with me, please message me in-game. It will keep the forums cleaner and we can sort things out there. Any posts you make on the forums I will reply to on the forums, and it might not make either of us very happy.

Some people simply want to fight, because they enjoy it. The anonymity of the Internet only intensifies and enables this tendency. Don't take it too personally, when someone attacks you.

I skimmed the second suggestion in your original post (node 72669). You tried to organize/summarize some aspects with bullet points, which is nice. And the fundamental concept is creative and interesting.

You could have used an "executive summary" at the top, describing your key idea. Readers need this, to determine whether they are interested enough to keep reading.

Your suggestion involves four new monster types, four new minibosses, a new boss, at least one new board element (trigger trap), and a massively new game mechanic (reconfiguring a level while the players are playing it). It's too much. At a minimum, you could have shunted most of the details of how the monsters work into a second post, so that readers could more easily skip them.

At the end, you include some apparently unrelated suggestions about shields and monster tweaks. Politicians call this "going off message". It distracts from the main point of your thread. Put it in another thread.

Additionally, there are some typographical errors, grammatical errors, and substantive errors (referring to statuses as elements). Of course, everyone makes mistakes. But proofread carefully, to minimize mistakes, to make your post seem better.

Saying "TL;DR" means you didn't read a post.

Asking for a "TL;DR" means asking for a summary in internet slang.
Typically asking for a TL;DR isn't rude. Stating "TL;DR" can be, however that depends on the person reading.

Y'all reading my posts like an english professor need to tone down on the flak. The curtains being red doesn't mean anything, and the fact that I said "This wall of text scares me" is literally just humor added onto my request. Yes, I do hide things in my posts, but on the suggestions forums I cut that down to a minimum.

And while I'm apparently being literally grammar hitler, Galax, it would be so helpful if you could put your responses to other people on a new line. It's really hard to read what is your voice and what is other people's voices too often, and I don't know where your voice starts.

Now it looks like you're screaming names, geez.

If you haven't done it before, try using the italics tags. You type < em > these tags < /em > around whatever you want to italicize... Without the spaces between the brackets and the letters. That will make your posts much easier to read.

@Example
"This is an example quote"
This is an example response.

That format is very frequently used on 'ere. Don't want to take away uniqueness but since this is sort of becoming a "how to communicate" thread, figured I'd at least throw the idea your way.

"The suggestions forum isn't a place where you should be if you can't articulate your thoughts into readable chunks that other forum-goers will understand."

https://quotesaga.s3.amazonaws.com/quote/QS_5091cc7b507b4513bbc73af29b6b...

As much as I would love to read those well thought out ideas, I feel as though, after scrolling for literally more than a minute to get to the bottom of the post, it is a little bit discouraging. a TL;DR would be nice as more of a summary, not a literal "Too Long, Didn't Read". ~Z

So most players in the suggestion forums come at your thread that you post there and says:

- Your idea is NOT FOR SPIRAL KNIGHTS!
- Your idea makes dis play 2 pley lel
- Your idea is not something i agree with.
-your idea is not good lel.

& Many more ways to reject the idea instead of constructive criticism.

All of This is mostly said in a very Sour Tone, Putting Down the OP. therefore Stopping them from posting Further Ideas instead of useful info that could help them later on. I had to endure through this tragedy for around; 2 years now, and so have others like me.

& After looking through all the points & requirements they have given me, i Finally dish out some Good ideas like:

This: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/109997#comment-997965
Or this: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/72669
Or even this: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/63597

I put Much effort into these posts thinking; others will congratulate me & tell me how they would like to change this or that. OR maybe even try to respond to one or two subjects in my idea(s).
instead this happened:
"TL;DR"
"Not gonna read dis lel"

So i understand, you might not even want to glance at my idea, but Why give me a Depressing attitude by telling me, "I'm not gonna read this!", or "wall of text. "? It just kills me inside to think that my idea full of potential was just wasted.

This might be easier for people to digest, Blandaxt. ^