Why do some people give such long extensive answers ?

Question

It takes a really long time to read?

Menhary.....I believe you're right !!

Way to go,Kay !

Of course it should be more than a yes or no...but not the whole page !

I'm not talking about long answers...just extremely long !

jbslass...thats exactly what I mean.
I like good answers in detail,but not taking up the whole page.

My question is in this section because its about religious answers.

I love good answers in detail,but not a page full of unneeded words to explain the point.
Many on here give very good information.

VERY FUNNY, OGELTHORPE13 !!!!!

Answer 1

I think some ppl cut and paste pages and pages of useless blather. Others, want to answer in the best way we can- which at times makes for a longer than usual answer. It has worked for me- I answer in the best way I can- sometimes long sometimes short. Whatever it takes to get my answer across.

Answer 2

Well, it depends what you mean by long and extensive. I mean if you ask the square root of 4, then that answer can be given in less than 150 words, at least most of the time. Incidentally, do you know that "long" and "extensive" don't mean exactly the same thing? Although each word comes from Latin, "long" means exactly what you think it means, but "extensive" actually means more like "stretched out", implying an action to make something longer than it once was, whereas by comparison, a "long" item can be long naturally. But that brings up the problem of what is naturally long. When I was water-skiing in Bermuda, a local resident came up to me and asked how you compared "long" and "longer", if you didn't have something short to start with. His point was that maybe there was an inbred or instinctive idea of "medium", inside the human mind, so that one could tell what was long and what was short. When I pointed out that he would say that a giraffe had a long neck, but a giraffe wouldn't say (if he could talk) that another giraffe had a long neck, the man got angry. I soothed his troubled spirit by buying him a couple of longnecks of Budweiser, and... what was the question?

Answer 3

When someone asks about a biblical doctrine, it is very difficult to give a cogent explanation without expounding on the basis of the doctrine.

On this site in particular, questions come up about the Trinity. Or, "How do we know the Bible is God's Word?" These cannot be explained in short sentences. Some of the theology behind it was debated for centuries! How can we now explain something like that in a paragraph? It ain't gonna happen.

Answer 4

Sometimes the questions demand a more extensive answer, and some a short, and to the point answer! If someone really wants to know the answer, it shouldn't matter how long that answer is, as long as the question is resolved.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Because you cannot always give a short AND accurate answer. If you ask what's 2+2, you can expect a very short answer. But if you ask why a person believes in something or why he or she doesn't believe, then the answer is bound to be either longer or incomplete. But don't assess answers for their length. Assess them for their interest and for their accurateness.

Answer 7

Some answers require all that extra information to shed proper light on the answer to the question. Christians are held accountable by God to make sure that our informtion we are sharing is accurate. So long answers sometimes become necessary.

Answer 8

A lot of questions on here run deep and can't be answered in just 2 or 3 sentences.

Answer 9

sometimes a long answer is required to give all the information asked for. sometimes people think a longer answer will be chosen as best. sometimes people like to just babble. if they're too long i don't read them because i lose interest.

Answer 10

It also bugs me when people give long answers. half the time the didn't even write it. Copy & paste is what they did. most of the time it doesn't even answer the question.
Its also a pain when people have really long details.