A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
the kinder, gentler, table talk days
Must have been before my time. When I was a newbie on TT, things seemed very much the same as they do here.
There is tone online. It's where I've mainly communicated for half my life. It's not the same as spoken word, where you can rely on infliction. It's all about word choice. I find claims that there isn't tone in the written word baffling, because it's a medium for communication, like speech or any other, and it has its own rules and forms and patterns and ways of getting things across. I don't deny that there's more room for misinterpreting, but that doesn't mean that tone's not there, and if multiple people have issues with the tone, you (general you) need to take a look at how you're wording things in the context of the culture you're communicating with.
Worth repeating.
I'd like to point out that I was here before all of you.
This is true. Though Holli and Vortex are right behind you.
"You cow! Maybe you should watch where you put those clodhoppers. Do I know you?"
But--but-- It's so apt. And of Our Culture!
Okay. I am chastened, somewhat. But I still think we should reserve a rolled up newspaper for spamming newpuppies.
Thank you for reading my post, though this was not the point I was attempting to make.
Could you clarify, then? (Honest request, because that's what it seemed to be saying, and I'd like to know what you were getting at.)
I'm gonna go sit my newbie ass in Beverly's corner. And then giggle like a 12-year-old at any and all lube references.
Though Holli and Vortex are right behind you.
Ahem. Standing right here.
They can be my minions.
I see them more as backup singers.
