16 Sep
2020
16 Sep
'20
6:51 p.m.
On Wednesday 16 September 2020 11:44:13 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2020 Wed, 16 Sep 11:10:00 -0700
William Morder via trinity-users via tde-users scripsit:
I also agree with this position, but only because I am feeling very agreeable
today. I don't know about *rules*, but at least guidelines, signposts,
guardrails, some sort of official notice that says, for example,
DANGER! BRIDGE OUT!
BOTTOMLESS ABYSS AHEAD
But I am also against rules that are too rigid and unyielding, as that is both
inhuman and inhumane.
Bill
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Nik
(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.)
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.