16 Sep
2020
16 Sep
'20
6:10 p.m.
On Wednesday 16 September 2020 12:04:04 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 09/16/2020 09:45 AM, William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
I can live with that. My problem is always, where to start revising or cutting
what others have said.
And when the original topic (say, about installing Icecat) suddenly veers into
philosophy and politics and Big Brother, etc., this really ought to be turned
into a completely new, separate thread. It's interesting, sometimes, but the
original topic got lost in discussions of matters that were several steps
removed from where it started.
So what would be our rule? except to create a new thread, early on, once we
realize where this train wreck is headed.
Bill
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We could stick to "strictly business";
which I am sure would please the
no-nonsense people here, but alienate others. For what it's worth, I also
don't like reading the threads when they get too far disconnected from
the original topic. But how far is too far? No jokes at all? No witty
retorts?
That's a completely different topic; we're talking about seemingly endless
levels of untrimmed quotes that one has to scroll through to get to a very
short reply at the bottom. Makes it very difficult to read and follow a
discussion.
(Personally, I like to see a little personal banter and joking; it helps
one get to know the folks we're communicating with. It does go a bit too
far sometimes, but for me it only becomes irritating when these two
problems are combined -- page after page after page of untrimmed,
now-irrelevant quotes many levels deep, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling,
just to find a line or two of something completely irrelevant at the
bottom.)