Is it up to the author to accurately convey a meaning?, or is it up to the
reader to figure out what was meant. I think that most of the
responsibility is that of the author's. If there are misunderstandings,
they should be able to be straightened out through clarification.
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From: "Desiree Oudinot" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Easing Tentions on List
This is true. It's very easy to take the flat, emotionless tone of a
screen reader and project that onto how the person might be saying
what they're thinking. When you think of it that way, it's easy to
assume that people are being deliberately malicious or ignorant. If
you had the same conversation face to face, or even over the phone,
you get so many other subtleties from tone of voice and even how
relaxed the environment is in general that give you clues on what is
meant by things that are being said. I do get awfully tired of certain
people, (not on this list, thank God), who repeatedly say that how
they come across online isn't their problem, it's yours for not having
a thick skin and other such things. I think there's a lot more to it
than that.
On 5/1/13, Ian Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, great post Tom.
And in regards to Dan's post:
I think one of the reasons that discussions can get heated more quickly
via text than verbal conversations is because there is no voice tone in
text discussion.
In verbal discussion we use voice tone to judge if someone is being
sarcastic, humorous, or serious.
In text dialogs everyone reads the text from their own perspective
without any voice tone to help clarify it and this can quickly lead to
misunderstandings.
At one of my previous jobs there was a policy that if a text dialog
sounded like it was headed south we were to stop emailing and make a
direct phone call to finish up the dialog.
I think that was a good policy and it's too bad it's not an option on a
mailing list.
I guess we all, myself included, will need to try more to give the
benefit of the doubt when reading and to also take more care in writing.
I look forward to the lists refocus on games.
Ian Reed
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