On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:46:47AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >>> How many times has the obnoxious person pointed out "Hey >>> asshole... use Google! "? Without such vitriol... many lists would >>> be drowning under the flood of people asking the same damn questions >>> over and over. >> >> There is nothing in the situation you describe that requires that >> level of useless vitriol. Rewrite the same advice in a helpful and >> friendly way, and it achieves the same effect without lowering the >> tone of the discussion. >> > > And just to clear something up. > > I answer the same question over and over again, often. > > I do not think a moderator will be alarmed if, in response to the same > question over and over, a form-response is pasted in and/or a single link > is left as an answer to the question. > > It's a far cry from being rude and abusive to someone to simply answering > the question quickly and dispassionately. > > There are times when someone misinterprets efficiency/expediency as > rudeness but I don't think that's what we're talking about for moderation > at all. Terse is not the same as rude, I agree, and we're not trying to moderate terseness. However, if you're going to be copy/pasting an answer like that, why not just make the form-response slightly less terse to keep it more friendly? (Or save it for the link's landing page.) Unless the "form-response" you're referring to is manually typing the same thing out of personal habit, in which case I'd say it's not very efficient. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
