I think walls of text are matter of time and place. My recollection is that Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin wrote in very long paragraphs, with very long sentences in them.
For contemporary texts written for the web, I’d generally agree, and even if I don’t think the writer is a crackpot, I’ll stop reading because of the difficulty of visually tracking through a wall of text.
I think walls of text are matter of time and place. My recollection is that Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin wrote in very long paragraphs, with very long sentences in them.
For contemporary texts written for the web, I’d generally agree, and even if I don’t think the writer is a crackpot, I’ll stop reading because of the difficulty of visually tracking through a wall of text.