[libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 9/8/11 7:33 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Often you already know roughly what is going on and only need to read the latest
> post.

If you're following only one thread/subthread in the messages, and have 
been able to keep up.   :-D  But I follow a lot of things, in a lot of 
places, and I often have to go back to older messages, even if trimming 
is being used, to refresh my memory.  (What's left of the memory!  LOL)

> Sometimes people might need quick easy access to previous comments and a
> quick scroll downwards can help them gain context if they can't quite remember
> some detail.

Quick scrolling?????  What's that?????  LOL

Seriously, though, if interspersion is used, you don't have to scroll 
anywhere.

> This list should allow people to use what they are familiar with rather than try
> to alienate new users surely?

Absolutely not!  If a person is alienated by being asked to follow the 
rules, then that person doesn't belong, or "play well with the other 
kids".  :-)  Using that philosophy, if driving my car backwards down the 
street is what I'm familiar with, should I be able to do that when I 
come visit you?  Should I be allowed to drive backwards on the other 
side of the road?

A newsgroup is a community, and for any community to function 
efficiently, rules need to be established, followed, and enforced.

> It's a little unwelcoming to say that all new
> users are lazy slobs and even worse to hide answers away where they wont find
> them imo.

Following the rules does not hide the answers.  In fact, it's just the 
opposite, IMO.  If you follow, and enforce, the rules, and you know the 
rules, you know where to find the answers.

All civilizations, cultures, communities that are/were successful had 
rules that were followed.  Anarchy, everyone doing what they wanted, has 
never been successful AFAIK.


LO's website, though, is another story!   :-D


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Ken

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