Dear Jean:
Your remark about the lack of visibility of accepted protocol in regards
to guest bloggers is right, and may sometimes be inauspicious.
Notwithstanding, a lot of posts that plague blogging, and are more in
the line of "negative rants" have made blogging in general more
difficult to moderate and manage.
Still more "notwithstanding", and recalling an apt point I remember
reading in the July 1995 issue of CGA magazine, in an article about 5
types of difficult personalities in the office, where they were
referring to the habitual complainer type, their point was that these
individuals are more interested in voicing complaints than providing any
aid to their solutions.
To me this correlates closely with the problem I mentioned above
regarding the moderation of guest blogging.
Worse still, we so often see that the objects of so many problems and
complaints are 2-sided wrongs or multi-sided equivalents, where nobody
really wants to compromise adequately, nor even be open about that very
fact.
If, being aware of that very concern, a person chooses to "complain for
the sake of complaining" because they see no hope of resolution, that
level, detrimental as it is, is also comprehensible.
All of this is so well known to many cultures, especially those which
have been around much longer than that of North America, however this is
where I see a major case of "explicitness is of the essence".
English is the most associative language I have heard of, however,
especially in North America, it seriously lacks the vocabulary and
practice to handle interpersonal and emotional difficulties well.
English has its strength in the technical and scientific arenas because
of its associativeness, but therein its "Ying and Yang", so little be it
often understood here.
As a person who loves his languages, with English as a forst language,
followed by French and Spanish as second and third, I see the mission to
render the emotive capacities of romance languages into the pragmatic
explicitness of English to take these skills out of the darkness of "a
black magic skill" in which they have languished so long to the
detriment of the better common good.
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Best Regards, Bruce Martin
On 6/28/2011 11:25, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
What Jean says is my experience of how blogs keep going: when it is irresistible
to blog [;<).
One thing that I see is missing is anything on the blog about how one can
become a (guest) poster there, and who are the authorized posters in the seed
community.
- Dennis
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From: Jean Hollis Weber [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 02:03
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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?
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Yes. And I'll probably post something now and then to keep it from
stagnating too much... mainly because I can't stop myself. ;-)
--Jean
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