So I participated in a forum thread recently out of boredom and responded maybe, 5 times--a bit excessive in retrospect, I agree. Understandably, the mods deleted two out of the 5 posts from me that they felt wasn't really adding to the conversation. One was one I'm super-glad they decided to hide from the public since it was what the young sprouts call "schizo-posting" about my current political anxieties due to the nature of the forum topic being somewhat political in nature. But the other was basically a 3-word joke comment referencing Oney Plays (and I think it was from Chris O'Neill impersonating Angry Video Game Nerd or The Nostalgia Critic like he so often does). This goes to show to me that, at least on NG's forum, they don't want unhelpful, rant-y essays and manifestos that contribute nothing to the conversation, but at the same time they don't have patience for quick (and equally-unhelpful) jokes targeted at those that don't have the attention span of reading anything on the Internet that is longer than three words. Thus, I should probably ignore my critics saying I should be less wordy if, in old-school forums, I'm actively encouraged to write literal essays and mods will probably delete my funny-but-unhelpful short jokes anyway, so long as the long essays are more helpful than quick YouTube-comment-esque jokes or even-longer rants about unrelated anxieties.

In short, it's not like you HAVE to read my walls of texts in forums properly explaining my point of view, no one's pointing a gun at your head forcing you to. Including this wall of text. We have comment sections in literally every social media site (including the Reviews section under NG Art Portal section) if you're more interested in quick Dad jokes instead of scrolling through wordy, nerdy discussions on, say, the current state of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise. In my own art and animation submissions, I do take full advantage of the idea that "a picture is worth 1,000 words" and make things more visual than verbal.

Anyway, that's my experience on learning forum etiquette the hard way, again you don't have to read all this if you don't want to. Being social is hard, even online...