Threadtiquette

Son of Witz · 07 Jan 2011, 22:19 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:19:49 -0800
Subject: (urth) Threadtiquette
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On Jan 7, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> FWIW, my 02/100 worth is that readability/comprehensibility is the most important issue.
> I consider everyone here authors, of a sort, and thus artists. I'd prefer a bit of artistic
> license be granted promoting the free-flow of ideas over the enforcment of standard forms 
> which might, at times, hinder that free-flow.
> 
> (either way, I praise whatver higher powers that be that I no longer have to plow through 40
> copied paragraphs of responses to get to the actual words of the post author, which used to 
> be true here.)                         
> _______________________________________________


No one is trying to enforce anything.
We've discussed some best practices, and practices seem to be getting better.
Nice work everyone. It's nothing personal.
If we all put more dilligence into formatting, the ideas will actually flow much better.
~witz

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