quote:Originally posted by Dafyd:My personal rules on links:Textual links are ok. I can skim those until I get to the important bit, and then I can quickly assess whether it's as important as the poster thinks it is. Also, if I want to take issue with it with the original poster I can copy and paste the passage in the thread.I never follow links to videos, because I can't assess it quickly and I can't copy and paste.
quote:Originally posted by romanesque:Not every topic renders itself to a sound bite, no matter how much the forum mode of discourse favours 5 second invective.
quote:Originally posted by Crœsos: You're allowed to post more than 140 characters. In fact, it's generally encouraged. [/QB]
quote:Originally posted by romanesque: quote:Originally posted by Crœsos: You're allowed to post more than 140 characters. In fact, it's generally encouraged. And that answers the OP's point about links how exactly? [/QB]
quote:Originally posted by Crœsos: You're allowed to post more than 140 characters. In fact, it's generally encouraged.
quote:Originally posted by lilBuddha: quote:Originally posted by romanesque: quote:Originally posted by Crœsos: You're allowed to post more than 140 characters. In fact, it's generally encouraged. And that answers the OP's point about links how exactly? Unlike twitter, The SOF Community section has a [i[discussion[/i] format. Learning to discuss would greatly facilitate discussions. [/QB]
quote:Originally posted by romanesque: quote:Originally posted by Crœsos: You're allowed to post more than 140 characters. In fact, it's generally encouraged. And that answers the OP's point about links how exactly?
quote:Originally posted by romanesque:I'm all for discussion. Unfortunately discussion here includes a Humpty Dumpty enthusiasm for words to mean anything the user wants them to, and a race for the lowest common rhetorical denominator, neither of which attract the opprobrium of administrators.
quote:Far from promoting discussion, it's a white flag in the face of mutual understanding.
quote:It's as though the forum was explicitly designed to engender aggressive secularism, religious fundamentalism, and any approach so long as it offers more heat than light.
quote:The internet is a weird place and site owners can run the place any way they please, including banning people for Not Getting It, but when links are treated with suspicion without clear malicious intent, you have to ask what the end game is and whose benefit it's run for, the many or the few?
quote:Originally posted by romanesque: Unfortunately discussion here includes a Humpty Dumpty enthusiasm for words to mean anything the user wants them to, and a race for the lowest common rhetorical denominator, neither of which attract the opprobrium of administrators. Far from promoting discussion, it's a white flag in the face of mutual understanding. It's as though the forum was explicitly designed to engender aggressive secularism, religious fundamentalism, and any approach so long as it offers more heat than light. The internet is a weird place and site owners can run the place any way they please, including banning people for Not Getting It, but when links are treated with suspicion without clear malicious intent, you have to ask what the end game is and whose benefit it's run for, the many or the few?
quote:Originally posted by romanesque:Not every topic renders itself to a sound bite, no matter how much the forum mode of discourse favours 5 second invective. Sometimes having a working comprehension of x requires a familiarity with a, b and c.
quote:Originally posted by romanesque: Not every topic renders itself to a sound bite, no matter how much the forum mode of discourse favours 5 second invective. Sometimes having a working comprehension of x requires a familiarity with a, b and c. Flagging up any segment in a discussion as definitive will not fulfil that function.
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quote:Originally posted by Doublethink.:[QB] Now I want to know how to do footnote links, because they make me extraordinarily happy.