. It's a 4 minute read, yet no one fucking reads it or comments. Some less serious posts will get like 8 responses, am I expecting too much?

I don't see you answering many "4 minute read" posts.

Here's something you might not know:

Posts that are more than 3 paragraphs are this:

Intro paragraph of "woe is me".

25 Paragraphs of oneitis, alternating with terrible past for variation.

One paragraph of "this isn't oneitis, and I feel I am different".

The answer is always the same: lift, ditch your oneitis, meet women, and PRACTICE.

Not everyone is like this. I am one of the people who, if the post is interesting and I can relate with it, I will indeed read the entire thing, whether it takes me 10 seconds or 10 minutes.

But in today's age of super fast-paced media and TikTok style entertainment, if you don't capture the average person's attention within like 10 seconds, or with the header or something, you're not going to get their time.

Things didn't used to be like this and attention was less valuable because we didn't have smartphones, internet, TV, computers and alike, so therefore people were bored a lot. And boredom is exactly when you do things like read a full post or actually use your brain to just think about life. But nowadays if you want this, you have to purposefully shield yourself from these attention grabbing media sources. Meditation helps.

But most people won't do this and so your have to craft your media to be enticing to the general population of unnaturally-induced ADD victims.

It has less to do with attention span and more that you're an online random with a long post.

The investment you are expecting is too high. Especially if you are including most details of what actually happened.

When posts are long and users are trying to quote specific sections of your post, it's difficult to find them again and the effort it takes to give you substantial feedback rises to the point that it's difficult.

I comment on most posts but I can't find the time to comment on yours. Especially when the posts have a lot of beginner mistakes in them, I can't hit them all.

It's one thing if a post is long and a lot of it is just background that doesn't need to be responded to really, it's another entirely when virtually the whole post has things to comment on.

The difference between your posts and other people's posts is that often times other people have relationship issues etc where there is just background And yours are game posts where the effort needed to break down your game errors would take like 30 minutes if done in any kind of satisfactory manner,

Edit: also, you are severely underestimating the value of paragraph breaks and other kind of formatting that would make a long post more readable and digestible.

See this comment of mine for example. It's long but formatted in a way that it's more readable:

https://www.forums.red/p/asktrp/299826/game_on_tinder/7291214

This is a very small group of guys. I'll check all the posts and if I see a good response I move on.