Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2017-05-10 06:55:34 UTC
Damn. You know a list has been taken over by posting nazis when entire
threads get hijacked just to tell anyone who cares to listen that someone
top posted, and that breaks someone's flow.
nooo: it means that we have new people whom we need to accommodatethreads get hijacked just to tell anyone who cares to listen that someone
top posted, and that breaks someone's flow.
and teach them how to not disrupt communication with over 400 other
people. as we get new people, that discussion naturally needs to take
place regularly.
Well, here's the deal. My e-mail
client is threaded, so I see the whole conversation in order. It just flows
naturally that way.
indeed... but you are just one of the 400+ people. i don't use aclient is threaded, so I see the whole conversation in order. It just flows
naturally that way.
threaded email client; others may use mutt, and so on.
If I want to read the same messages over and over, all I
have to do is open them as many times as I want. There is therefore no need
to quote anything at all, as I have the entire context.
there is no need to quote anything at all... *for you*, as *you* havehave to do is open them as many times as I want. There is therefore no need
to quote anything at all, as I have the entire context.
the entire context, and have an email client where it is convenient to
review prior messages very very easily.
a busy person (one who has hundreds of messages a day) would not have
the time to do that - hence the reason why there are rules about
providing (and cutting unnecessary) context.
I'm looking at you
especially, hard-core bottom posters,
hard-core bottom-posting is just as bad, as is not cutting extraneous contextespecially, hard-core bottom posters,
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this kind of thing - not cutting extraneous context - is *really*irritating to have to read through. like the wikipedia page says, and
every netiquette page says, it's really important to remove anything
(but ONLY anything) which is not needed. the remaining context should
make the ongoing immediate discussion "understandable". issues that
have already been discussed, resolved and do not need to be repeated
should be removed.
it's pretty sensible stuff
I find this list to be quite informative, and I see a lot of good things
coming in the hopefully not-too-distant future because of the ongoing work
that is taking place here, as well as on various pages and articles linked
here. However, post police hijacking threads to tell people they're posting
wrong, when all they want to do is contribute to the discussion is
counterproductive at best, has happened 2 to 3 times just on this list in
the past 24 hours,
please be patient: we have new people coming in all the time.coming in the hopefully not-too-distant future because of the ongoing work
that is taking place here, as well as on various pages and articles linked
here. However, post police hijacking threads to tell people they're posting
wrong, when all they want to do is contribute to the discussion is
counterproductive at best, has happened 2 to 3 times just on this list in
the past 24 hours,
has completely derailed a thread at least once in that
time and is enough to make people who otherwise have good contributions want
to leave.
well, one of the things we don't unfortunately enforce properly istime and is enough to make people who otherwise have good contributions want
to leave.
good subject-line management, which would allow people to select the
topics that they're interested in. so, i'm going to try to start
doing that and would appreciate people doing the same.
l.
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