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| From | Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c, comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: on writing subject lines |
| Date | 2023-12-03 14:05 -0300 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <877clvw71x.fsf@yaxenu.org> (permalink) |
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Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> writes:
> On Sun, 03 Dec 2023 13:01:28 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:
>
>> So we can sort of blame that partly on the user interfaces. Somehow,
>> the subject line should come as a last step. That might be one of the
>> reasons lay people love the new proprietary software for conversations
>> --- they don't ask them to solve hard problems. On the contrary: they
>> force them not to solve them. (You don't have much to say? No problem:
>> we won't let you write more than n characters anyway.)
>
> Even worse, these modern interfaces often /force/ people to post,
> inundating the medium with trivial chatter. ("You don't have anything to
> say? Too bad; you need to post /something/ in order to keep your account
> open.")
That's wild. (I had no idea.) Some things such as education and
communities can never be guided by commerce. It has to come from within
the community itself. If it ever becomes commercial, then we should
backtrack.
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