It depends. Often on the internet on yahoo questions people dont want to read paragraphs explaining stuff, but they are very receptive to short bursts of sentences.
I don't think it's stupid. You should be more considerate. Maybe they can read better this way, or maybe they have bigger fonts on their computers and hit "enter" at the of end the line. So, most likely it's a vision related problem, and it doesn't look stupid to them.