Meta about backchannel -- exchanges of "insent" "insent" "insent"
Oh yeah, I could see how that could get very distracting. And make people paranoid.
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
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John H - Mar 01, 2003 1:54:21 pm PST #6081 of 10001
Burrell - Mar 01, 2003 1:55:53 pm PST #6082 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I don't know about policy or not, but that is certainly the most effective way of dealing with it.
Daisy Jane - Mar 01, 2003 1:59:27 pm PST #6083 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
The thing about saying insent though, is that I rarely keep more than one window up. I would like to know if someone sent me something, and I want them to know I sent them something.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2003 2:00:30 pm PST #6084 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
One has to say insent to Burrell, because she'll go days without checking her email.
Burrell - Mar 01, 2003 2:02:10 pm PST #6085 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
t hangs head sheepishly
It's too true. But you have my other email address, and that one I check far more often, almost daily.
John H - Mar 01, 2003 2:08:04 pm PST #6086 of 10001
I would like to know if someone sent me something, and I want them to know I sent them something.
You don't get a beep or an icon flashing or whatever from your email client?
I must say, if it was like this:
John H: [something I think is funny] -- isn't that funny, everyone?
Buffista A: Hey Buffista B -- insent.
Buffista C: Hey Buffista D -- insent.
Buffista E: Hey Buffista F -- insent.
John H: anyone..?
I would be freaking out.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2003 2:09:44 pm PST #6087 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Web mail doesn't beep.
almost daily.
That's a lot of checking. NOT.
Signed,
Computer picks up her e-mail 24/7
John H - Mar 01, 2003 2:10:58 pm PST #6088 of 10001
Web mail doesn't beep.
Duh. Silly me. Though the Message Centre on TT was supposed to beep. But it never did.
scrappy - Mar 01, 2003 2:12:15 pm PST #6089 of 10001
Nobody
Usually it's more polite, John. It's clear what the email is about.
BUFFISTA A: Hey, Buffista B, I hear you know a lot about Sumerian Fertility chants and also the proper way to use a fish fork. Can I ask you some questions for a Smallville/SpongeBob Regency fic I'm working on?
BUFFISTA B: Sure.
BUFFISTA A: Insent.
John H - Mar 01, 2003 2:16:55 pm PST #6090 of 10001
Smallville/SpongeBob Regency
Now that's some Smallville fic I really would read. And reminds me about this very punk-alterna-chick I saw on Town Hall station reading Georgette Heyer.
But wasn't ita saying that people were doing quite the opposite? Doing the "insent" thing without an obvious reason. Maybe that's my too-paranoid interpretation.
If backchannel is here being use to mean "talking about people non-publically", then advertising the fact that you're doing it by saying "insent" without an obvious Smallville/SpongeBob Regency reason for it seems, at least, ungracious.