Do you really hate large blocks of text?

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I can't stand when everything is just this great big unorganized blob of writing. At least people could break their paragraphs up. If something is bulleted I can read off each thing just by looking at it, but if it's a blob all I see is a grey patch in front of me and if I try to go through and read it I mix up words and forget what line I'm on.

Yes. Attention to paragraphing can significantly improve the ease of comprehension.
As can decent punctuation.

I have a tendency to read everything as though it had been carefully composed, and that the small details matter. I consider that a courtesy.
It gets frustrating, of course, when attentive reading reveals that carefully expressed thoughts are not the prime ingredients of the text.

Do I really hate large blocks of text? Not nearly so much as invented spellings.

Even after all of these years working with computers...I just can't get through large blocks of text on-screen.

If it is dreadfully important, then I will print it out so that I can actually read it.

Yes, large blocks on screen are a pain. I admit I have done a few myself. I shall refrain from such in future. thank you fro bringing this matter to our attention.

I do spell unusually, sometimes for fun. Mostly due to dys (lexia/graphia), and poor keyboard skills.

I really hate it when people don't use paragraphs, but when they don't use punctuation, capital letters and so on, it's even worse. I just won't read giant masses of letters, I find it barely comprehensible.
I'm fine if I can tell where one sentence ends and another begins, but if that's not possible, I'm totally lost.

When I see big blocks of text, I can't make my eyes go to the left. They just won't read the stuff on the left. . .they will read the stuff on the RIGHT, but I can't get them to go to the left.
Sometimes this is with columns too.
I remember trying to read as a kid. It always puzzled me, as you really CAN'T figure out much if you don't read the whole thing. But it doesn't happen all the time, matter of fact not most of the time, but . . . there it is.
Can't drag my eyes to read on the left.
I wonder if it is stress? My mother always said it was sheer obstinacy,(sigh) but that was her explanation of all my foibles.
Merle

Its not ADHD friendly. When I read I uncontrollably began daydreaming about something usually not related to what I'm reading. Needless to say I loose my place
in the text. Small blocks of text I can easily recover from that.

Yes.
I mean i don't mind if it is Dostoevski.
But on an internet forum; i don't care about grammatical precision, nor am i a spellig nazi.
But pressing the 'return' key doesn't cost anything.

No not really, unless its very small text, but bad spelling, punctuation, and grammar sometimes makes posts unreadable for me.

People should use paragraphs instead of making huge blocks of text. I always make sure that anything I write has paragraphs in all the right places.

Yes I hate them especially when they are not broken up into paragraphs or go on with a lot of gibberish.

Same as me; I am not ADHD but my mind does go adrift if too many complex sentences are used with three or more phrases. Some sentences I have encountered are even very long for a paragraph and use the same conjunction over and over and over again and you see what I mean and...

Then that marathon sentence finishes with the dreaded conjuntion "but" which is a conjunction that usually nullifies everything I just read. So there was no point reading it all in the first place.

YES.

I never EVER read sh*t thats like that, ever.

It's not hard to break a long post into paracgraphs, and I usually only read short posts anyway.

Don't "hate" it, per se. But I prefer to read smaller posts. (Get kind of a headache from reading off a computer screen as it is, really.)

Sometimes, though. I don't set out to write a long post. It just sort of happens that I cannot fit all ideas into something shorter. So I can see that it is forgivable.

It's good when some people break up their paragraphs.

I can't stand large blocks of text. I find them very hard for my mind to digest. I like to see paragraphs and shorter posts. That's why I keep my posts or psots short and sweet.