I'd call it IOS (Information overload syndrome). Sites like this are full of text, and reading stories is more challenging than just looking at a pretty picture and going: oooh ... nice.

Everyone browsing the forums will read thousands of words and most of them are read fast, merely to extract the most relevant information quickly and then move on. In a way reading forums is like reading a game manual.

Reading these stories is something different. I'd advise people to print them out, and read them somewhere quiet, much like a good book. Only then can they be truely appreciated.