..on or around Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:46:45PM +0200, Stéphane Marguet (Stemp) said: > I'm sorry, I'm using Ubuntu's evolution and I just want to tell you : > for ME it's better to top-post ! > > I don't even understand why someone will ask for bottom-post ! > > PS : it's not a troll, I just want to understand why you may ask for > bottom post. I just don't get it. What I care is about the answer ! > And I want the answer to be on TOP.
in most (if not all) spoken and written natural language transactions, first comes the question and then the answer. it's unintuitive for many - myself included - for this to be reversed. whether strategic or accidental, a top-post is a perversion of sense; what you might call a Rhetorical Answer. it produces a break in the inheritence of meaning and as such it is innately destructive to the evolution of the thread. for these reasons - and regardless of intent - top-posts will most often be interpreted as a selfish form of reciprocation. cheers, -- julian oliver http://julianoliver.com http://selectparks.net messages containing HTML will not be read. -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
