"Redditspacing"

This dumb meme really needs to stop.

It's painful enough to read long lines of text on a full-width website, let's not make this harder by having smartasses flinging shit at people for vertically spacing out their posts.

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Go the fuck back to reddit asap

You can space your posts
like this
instead of

like
this

dammit, should be

like

this

You know that does nothing right?

What was the point of making this thread?

lol what? It isn't hard at all. What are you on about?

Good post OP.

I made it all double space just for you so you can read it better.

There's a difference between a space between a paragraph of 3 sentences or more and a space between every sentence. The latter is difficult to read and should be ridiculed until faggots stop doing it. No fuck off you shitcunt.

Honestly, adding an extra space between paragraphs can make the text more readable if the paragraphs are really long, but there's no reason to add a space when each paragraph is only a line or two long.

It's mostly a way to bully people who post absolute shit and space poorly. If you make a good post where the formating is well done people won't sperg out at you for well placed white space.

It isn't optimal for readability at all, unless you're on a phone in which case you deserve the least pleasurable user experience possible anyway. The only problem with pointing out Reddit spacing is that occasionally people do it when you've legitimately moved onto a new and entirely unrelated paragraph, separating two short but unrelated topics. Or perhaps when genuinely spacing for readability (on a standard computer monitor) to avoid godforsaken textwalls, such as inserting quotes.

If I must be pedantic, "This dumb meme really needs to stop" and "It's painful enough" should really be on the same line for optimal post aesthetics.

A full-width line of text on a widescreen computer screen has terrible readability — it far exceeds the optimal number of words per line.
Ask any typography specialist, especially web designers.