At this point you both kind of sound like assholes. How long is a piece of string?
My two cents worth is that most people instinctively don't measure comment length against what is possible (ie what fits in the box) but rather against what is usual. And I do believe it is a fact that the majority of comments these days (perhaps less so on fics that are specifically gifts) are fairly short. I personally *do* think a comment that fills an entire box is not just long but very long. Why? Because when most of your comments are a line or two then you consider a paragraph long by comparison and when an entire comment box turns up filled you dance a jig and bless that person's name to the heavens.
Re: Ways in which you are petty
At this point you both kind of sound like assholes. How long is a piece of string?
My two cents worth is that most people instinctively don't measure comment length against what is possible (ie what fits in the box) but rather against what is usual. And I do believe it is a fact that the majority of comments these days (perhaps less so on fics that are specifically gifts) are fairly short. I personally *do* think a comment that fills an entire box is not just long but very long. Why? Because when most of your comments are a line or two then you consider a paragraph long by comparison and when an entire comment box turns up filled you dance a jig and bless that person's name to the heavens.