[ale] Ultra cheap tablet discussion. Are they useful or can they be made useful?

[Jim Kinney]

Lol!!

On June 30, 2020 9:21:57 PM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Sure.
>
>On 6/30/20 8:45 PM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:23:20 -0400
>> Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> If everyone top posts, the topic is just a short scroll down. If
>>> everyone bottom posts, we all have to scroll through weeks of banter
>>> to find the new nugget of info.
>> 
>> Not true. If people also trim quoted material not relevant
>> to their reply, scrolling would be short. For a group of people
>trying
>> to distill the best of their ideas, interleave posting with removal
>of
>> irrelevant quoting is best. Terse replies can be given, and everybody
>> knows what question is being answered, and who asked that question.
>> 
>> You speak of scrolling through weeks of banter. When somebody top
>posts
>> with "I agree", if you want to find out what they agree with, and
>which
>> of that person's ideas they agree with, you'd need to not only scroll
>> through weeks of banter, but you'd have to critically examine weeks
>of
>> banter.
>> 
>> And like you said, top or bottom post, why should there be weeks of
>> posts? Trimming is a good thing.
>> 
>> Like I said in my email, if you want to top-post, fine, but be
>> responsible for identifying what you're talking about, and substitute
>> specifics for pronouns. We already have enough ambiguity in our
>> technical lives without a top post response of "I'd also use fstrim"
>> to weeks of posts. I mean, really, what does "also" refer to?
>>   
>> SteveT
>> 
>> Steve Litt
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