From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-08T19:18:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Posting Culture

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Michael T. Richter wrote:
| On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 17:01 +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
|
|> Put shortly, no, I do not really feel this tendency, maybe just an
|> increase in traffic?
|
|
| Actually the only real tendency I've seen in posting culture in the
| Ruby-Talk mailing list since I first signed on was a reduction of "Matz
| Is Nice So We Are Nice" (MINSWAN) culture and an increase in ESR "you
| must ask exactly the way I want to be asked or I will feel free to mock
| you"-style culture.

It is difficult to help somebody who posts something like
'My script doesn't run. Can you help me.'

And text is notoriously bad in conveying subtext (i.e. nobody knows
which tone I'd use in verbal communication), and I value brevity and
conciseness in text communication, too, which can seem unfriendly, but
really isn't. It helps reduce misunderstanding as to what is meant.

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