[ale] hijacked threads are bad etiquette

[Richard Faulkner]

Visual cue is the very thing I came to as what is missing from email
back in the mid-90s.  I try (to varying degrees) to make sure that I
DON'T assume the reader knows what I'm talking about and try to be clear
about what I am saying.  If in doubt, or in a forum where I may be taken
the wrong way, I've taken to inserting comments in brackets [Rich pauses
and thinks for a moment] that convey a visual cue rather than leaving it
up to the reader's imagination.  

Agreed on all points and job well done........R


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] hijacked threads are bad etiquette
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:04:29 -0400

I have read many studies that all seem to point out the need for visual
cues in human communication. Email does not provide that. So on a
mailing list we all become somewhat afflicted with Aspergers Syndrome (a
part of the autism spectrum).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>
wrote:

        Wow.  I don't get it.  When we meet it's all good but when we're
        online
        it's a whole nuther story.  Go fig.  So much in common that we
        come here
        (ALE) but so far apart that we cannot read beyond our own anger
        in
        posted messages to and fro?
        
        I for one applaud what you're doing!
        
        
        Rich Faulkner
        
        
        
        
        
        
        On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 08:39 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
        > For those that are either too young to understand or too old
        to
        > remember or too socially-inept to care, it is considered very
        poor
        > etiquette to change the topic in a discussion thread without
        changing
        > the subject line. Most people understand that topics drift but
        a shift
        > from cool picture to horrid health care crosses many
        boundaries that
        > should never be crossed.
        >
        > So let's all play in the sandbox nicely together without
        throwing toys
        > and sand at everyone else.
        >
        > Anyone who hijacks another thread with politics, religion or
        economics
        > will be moderated with no further notice. This is not the
        place so
        > take it somewhere else.
        >
        >
        > --
        > --
        > James P. Kinney III
        >
        > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic,
        diverted to
        > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can
        do as
        > they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate
        the
        > outcome.
        > - 2011 Noam Chomsky
        
        
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As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
outcome.
- 2011 Noam Chomsky

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