[time-nuts] Editing, nitpicking, and graciousness
William H. Fite
omniryx at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 14:03:43 UTC 2010
>
> This is the point I was trying, perhaps too subtly, to make in my recent
> post in which I compared dialogue on this list with debate in the US
> Senate. In some instances, the level of nit-picking has become extreme as
> writers queue up, each to niggle at the post of the person just before
> them. For those of us whose academic expertise is not in electrical
> engineering (I'm a biostatistician, for example), much of the discussion is
> over our heads, anyway, but the "Mine Is Bigger Than Yours" tone of some of
> the posts here is embarrassingly obvious.
> In a message dated 12/21/2010 7:46:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> sandeenpa at yahoo.com writes:
>
> List,
>
> I, and I suspect many others, archive this list on a word processor to
> save its information for projects and learning.
>
> That said, there are a number on this list who do not edit their replies
> to a thread so we end up with pages upon pages of previous postings. If
> one or more people do this, besides violating the lists protocol, It
> makes
> it extremely difficult to follow the postings. So in essence by not
> editing the effectiveness of the responses are greatly diminished.
>
> Some seem to delight in nitpicking minutia details. Look at the whole
> message. Does it really have to be absolutely 100 percent accurate to be
> valid? Come on give it a break. For most of us this is a hobby and we
> don’t
> have advanced science degrees. All have some or a great deal of expertise
> in one or more areas but no one has great expertise in ALL areas.
>
> This leads nicely into my last comment on civility. All of us are wrong or
> mis-guided at times. A helpful private email correction is appreciated.
> Being sarcastic to the poster in public isn’t.
>
> I try to remember this wise adage: Be Careful Of The Toes You Step On
> Today As They May Be Attached To The Butt You Have To Kiss Tomorrow.
>
> Regards,
>
> Perrier
>
>
>
>
>
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