DarkFury
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- Banned
- #41
I know where I am at. The fact that it lacked despite screens of info IS important. Readers want content not hyperbole. There are more than a few members here that can put more content in five lines than others can with five paragraphs.The fact that is was long does not deter from the fact it lacked content.Even with my clients when I do just tell them what they should do, or what's a better or worse approach, as goes an implementation I'm helping them manage, I still provide sound justification for my advice. The listening (thought consumption) dynamic in those situations is, of course, different.
The CDZ is a public forum, and therefore the problems addressed here cannot be truly compared to the situation of client and professional.
We are here for a debate, and not to conform to an already comprehended standard, nor to improve standards set to provide for specialists.
Justification in a debate isn't for what was known before (advice), but for what was and is sought in the free chosen participation of the multiple collaborators, and also for what may continue to be sought beyond the debating assembly.
It seems to me that the problem relating to the topic of the thread is in the way the information in posts are being sent and received through a progressive listening (as the case in a debate). The use or eliciting of any hierarchical subsidy (professional, intellectual, emotional) either in defense or in affirmation for and from an argument is deranging in the clear comprehended precepts of a developing debate.
Well, just about any assertion of the sort discussed on USMB takes more than a "tweet's worth" to justify. Indeed, a great many of them have volumes of thought devoted to them, their own Dewey decimal classification level if you will. Why then should anyone think that a short essay offered here too long in an attempt to discuss such matters?
The fact that was (^) deters from the fact that will be (>).
The fact it lacked is null. (0)
I remind again, we are in the Clean Debate Zone.
We start with 0s.
If difficult to understand, I disagree, I do not fix.
When you write a long winded diatribe of nothing you are wasting the readers time for ego. The readers put more value on their time and the writer should as well.
One should expect to alienate readers when the writers glaring ego out shines the content. And the reader who feels they are treated that way? They can be rude or they can be polite.
tl;dr is a very polite way of saying write NOT for your ego but for the readers because a lack of doing that will cause the loss of both.