Erik Reuter wrote: > > I for one like your posting style, Dan (well, I get bored by the > philosophical stuff, I prefer more practical stuff, but I just skip over > the stuff that bores me). My favorite of your posts are the ones where > you give detailed examples and supporting evidence. You present your > ideas clearly, and seem to be open to hearing other ideas. I don't think > it is unreasonable to expect that if someone wants to discuss something > with you, that they at least put in some effort to reply to your > specific points or evidence. I do think it is unreasonable for people > to try to convince you to change your style because you are somehow > slighting them or hurting their feelings because they are intimidated > by your high quality posts. If they feel that way, they should simply > not read your posts. I would miss it if you changed your style. You > can't please all of the people all of the time. (Although if it bothers > you, I suppose you could include a shallow, "executive summary" at the > beginning of your long posts and the mind-numb people can stop reading > after the summary)
Its not a matter of liking or not liking Dan's posts - its a matter of chiming in with a thought or comment and having someone send back a 15kb email detailing why I'm an idiot that I have a problem with. -j- -- moo.
