On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:17:17AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> 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. > > For example. An email I've sent often contains entirely the below: > > """ > examples here: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumCodeSnippets > -sv > """ > > I don't think the above is rude, at all, it is often in response to an > extremely vague/general question about programming with the yum python > modules. > > I think the moderation should not try to judge "friendliness" but only to > determine if the message is hostile and abusive. > > If only b/c of how many non-native english speakers we have who, I've > found, sometime do not understand the tone certain word choices connote. True, wordiness is also not always more friendly. Your example above is a good example, in my opinion. -- 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
