Haste making Waste on Higher-Fire
Tyler Nally (tnally@iquest.net)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:35:21 -0500
At 12:11 PM 10/19/98 -0400, Sis Wendy Horn wrote:
<snip>
>I was just discussing this "pet-peeve" of how some of the posts were
>appearing on this list.
I'm personally glad you didn't say "disappearing" on this list...
heh, heh, heh....
>hmmmmmmmmm......can he possible wait and do ALL of explanations in ONE post
>reply???? I realize that MAYBE not all of the replys came to him at once.
>BUT, surely with some of the topics we get here, and some "posters" seem to
>generate more response than others (YOU know who you are!)----Could it be
>possible, brethern and sister-en, that you wait a bit and see what type of
>response your initial post gets and THEN post your reply addressing the
>remarks of others????
This makes for more work on the part of the posters to combine different
replies into a single post, but entirely do-able. With the Eudora e-mail
client I use (Eudora 3.0.6) it has a "Paste as Quotation" function that
allows me to paste text from one document into another with the ">" put
infront of the lines that I'm pasting (from text that didn't have the ">"
marks before the text).
I think this would be a really good thing to do, because, if we could get
into the habit of doing such, then the subject threads might not take off
in all of the differeent directions as they do.
The old way...
original post --garners---> 4 replies ---garners--> 8 replies --garners-->
12 replies.... [by this time some of the subject matter has been splintered
off into different directions because what's being discussed isn't even
related to the old subject matter anymore other than by the generations
of postings], etc.
The new way...
original post --garners--> 4 replies --garners--> 1 combined post of the
orignal poster and 3 replies from other ---garners--> 6 posts (two from
previous posters combined into single posts and 4 others), etc.
I think if we get into the habit of doing this, this will alow us to engage
in better discussion precision as the conversation/topic might not wander
quite so much.
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but, it'd require more effort on the folks that reply
to combine the posts and keep the discussion more focused. I'm not saying
it won't wander, but it just might not do so quickly from the original topic.
Also, just from a composition type manner... when someone replies, if they
couldn't write a quick summary about their reply that ties all of the thoughts
together into a consise paragraph (that they are trying to bring across) kinda
like the way the first or last paragraph of a newpaper or magazine article is
written to "set the expectation of the current read", then I'm not so sure
that the post written has a focus of what it wants to accomplish. If you're
posting and you don't think you could provide a summary of what you are going
to say, then you probably ought to re-think what you're about to post.
Please consider these as well....
Bro Tyler
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