I try to avoid these types of things but- I just can't at the moment. The whole thing can be summed up in three sentences: It takes you 5 paragraphs to get your points across. You go off-topic about a million different things while trying to make one point, and most of the time is irrelevant. This is the reason that those who have spoken are complaining, nothing more.
-Tony On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Katrina Payne <[email protected] > wrote: > Well, this style that you do see, that I am working to adjust out of, was > mostly only created by these accusations of wall of text. > > I am now at the point that I do not even really type: > * Redundant remarks > * Irrelevant statements (in my mind at least) > * Keeping each "paragraph" along a single logical step in thought (if at > all > possible) > > The thing is, I have included a few other elements that cause issues. > > As I have found some people complaining about wall-of-texting tend to miss > sentences if they are not at the start of a paragraph. To point this out, I > tend to make these sentences their own paragraph. > > Personally, I blame that in the past, accusers have generally been fairly > terrible about qualifying what made my wall of text, a wall of text. > Forcing > me mostly to guess, and adjust. > > It is also these other previous issues with this, that have just generally > lead me to regard Wall-of-texts as not a real accusation. > > Generally I do read my stuff prior to posting it. I do miss a few things > due to > being in a rush, yes. > > Though--I just noticed that in your reply to shorten my response, I appear > to > have a few newlines in odd places. I am fairly certain my client forces a > newline on my messages at column 79... though it has just occurred to me it > might not--or that may somehow have an issue propagated elsewhere. > > I will note, that in threads about coding issues, I agree that text should > be > short. The code and comments in code should do most of the talking in > those. > > However, this, and other threads that I have gone over board with the > others > in, there has been very little code applied. So what would normally be > present > in code and comments in the code, appears to be done in a more verbose > manner. > > Thank you > ~Katrina > > On Monday, July 26, 2010 05:34:35 pm Jonathan Murphy wrote: > > Sorry, I typed it in a hurry and yes, you would probably write something > > completely different to what I did, it was only an example of the short > form > > communication that people prefer to read in a discussion list. > > > > I suppose it also isn't a blanket rule, sometimes (rarely) a wall of text > > may be required, particularly when someone is starting a new thread and > > trying to explain the problem they are dealing with and also when people > are > > posting pieces of code. Just try to be as short as possible while > > maintaining your point. > > > > I have the habit of reading everything I post and if I realise I'm not > > adding anything to the conversation, I cut chunks of my post out as a > > courtesy to the other members. > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
