Proposal for ML conduct

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:46:47AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
>>> How many times has the obnoxious person pointed out "Hey
>>> asshole... use Google!  "?  Without such vitriol... many lists would
>>> be drowning under the flood of people asking the same damn questions
>>> over and over.
>>
>> There is nothing in the situation you describe that requires that
>> level of useless vitriol.  Rewrite the same advice in a helpful and
>> friendly way, and it achieves the same effect without lowering the
>> tone of the discussion.
>>
>
> And just to clear something up.
>
> I answer the same question over and over again, often.
>
> I do not think a moderator will be alarmed if, in response to the same  
> question over and over, a form-response is pasted in and/or a single link  
> is left as an answer to the question.
>
> It's a far cry from being rude and abusive to someone to simply answering  
> the question quickly and dispassionately.
>
> There are times when someone misinterprets efficiency/expediency as  
> rudeness but I don't think that's what we're talking about for moderation  
> at all.

Terse is not the same as rude, I agree, and we're not trying to
moderate terseness.  However, if you're going to be copy/pasting an
answer like that, why not just make the form-response slightly less
terse to keep it more friendly?  (Or save it for the link's landing
page.)  Unless the "form-response" you're referring to is manually
typing the same thing out of personal habit, in which case I'd say
it's not very efficient.

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