On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Eric Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > I've seen plenty of emails going around requesting people not top-post > and not to post via html. I don't think it's as big of a problem as > this thread makes it out to be. While I'm sure some people do ignore > posts that fall into those categories, there's not really much you or I > can do about it. I don't like defeatist attitudes just because they're related to community changes. There are certain parts of the community that can be readily improved (typically relating to centralized rules, FAQs, etc) and certain parts that are very difficult to improve (typically relating to the users' attitudes).
If someone makes even a passing note of this on the website, then my single bug report might do the work of several dozen "dont post in html" mails over time. > Do you honestly believe that people who ignore html emails are doing > something different than you for ignoring any post you don't care > about? That argument can be easily silenced when you realize that some > people "don't care" for html formatted email. That's a pretty easy question to answer and substantiate. Yes. Posts are typically discriminated upon based on their content. On the other hand, html posts are discriminated based upon their formatting. This means questions that people would otherwise have answered get ignored. Content discrimination is a null transaction. Formatting discrimination is at some times a null transaction and at some times negative (friction).
