Talk:Author Authority/@comment-7050565-20170912225509/@comment-29564364-20170929052217

"As a former wall-of-texter myself, I can assure you even the target audience doesn't listen. They are just scanning the wall for structural weaknesses to throw back in your face, again and again and again, invariably twisting and dismissing what valid points you may have." First thing I gotta say, and I'm sure it's no new information to you, is personal experiences are rarely a good basis to determine the norm as different people will have different experiences, even in the same situation. In the majority of debates I partake in, that type of people are simply dismissed altogether by the debaters. And second, you don't seem to listen either. I already said that those who are unwilling to listen to the arguments put forward don't have their place in debates and so, are not part of my target audience. My target audience is those who are willing to have an intellectually honest and productive conversation in regards to the topic, which obviously excludes the ones who attack the textual structure rather than the argument itself.

"Well, successive posts have the advantage if visually compartmentalizing the different points, which is certainly more digestible than a single development." Well, [paragraphs] have the advantage of visually compartmentalizing the different points, which is certainly more digestible than a single development. If an argument can be used by the opposition by only changing a couple words to fit their position without altering the core meaning, then you should find a better one.