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Re: emacs stackexchange beta site
From: |
Udyant Wig |
Subject: |
Re: emacs stackexchange beta site |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:28:37 +0530 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) |
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
| I have already said some of the reasons. Pascal said
| some of the same things slightly differently, and added
| some more. In principle, I agree with what he said,
| though in practice I don't really mind Google spying on
| me.
Why do you not mind Google spying on you?
I ask because most of my reading on various fora had very vocal
participants making known their outrage in no uncertain terms. So, I
would much appreciate a different view on this.
| But OK:
|
| <snip comparison between general/mass tools and specific/expert tools>
:
| What I don't like with SX:
|
| <snip displeasure at enforced goodness on SX>
I assume they want participants to be nice and civil even while
discussing matters technical. Isn't that what moderation is all about?
| <snip displeasure at the distractiveness of the Web interfaces>
I do not see the movement toward a GUI future abating. Non-GUI fora
like Usenet will perpetually be the shade under the trees by the road
in that future.
| <snip displeasure at lack of discursive participation>
I take it that "extended discussions" are "not constructive" and hence
get "closed".
| But: discussion you should take part in, it is an
| interaction between people (the famous distributed
| peer-to-peer review of the FOSS world), or, if you are
| a lurker, follow step by step. So this is why I give
| the SX a half point - in the Google problem-solving
| world, you don't want to wade through never-ending
| Usenet threads: you just want an answer. So Google and
| SX is a good match and I won't pretend I wasn't helped
| numerous times.
I wrote in comp.lang.c recently that I used to spend some time every
now and then going through the archives of Usenet with Google's old
interface. It had been a fascinating experience every time. But with
the upgrade to the new JS-heavy interface, such exploration is hindered
by its ease of use.
| While it is true that Google reduces the attention span
| in time and in space, and it by itself cannot offer
| deep understanding, sometimes you are just stuck on a
| detail and that isn't even in your big-hefted book you
| just read. Here is where Google can help you, so you
| don't get stuck and can move on to bigger and better
| things.
I have done this myself, always making a note to read up on the point
later.
| <snip postulation of tool with better interface doing Google's job>
|
| <snip displeasure at the reputation system>
Such a system or its variants are in widespread use on many fora,
e.g. on Reddit, where the voting system tends to push popular answers
to the top of a thread, but which may or may not be sound or valid.
--
Udyant Wig
GitHub: https://github.com/udyant
Poetry: http://www.writing.com/main/profile/biography/frosthrone
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, (continued)
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/19
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/19
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2014/09/19
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/19
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- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Udyant Wig, 2014/09/20
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/20
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Udyant Wig, 2014/09/21
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/21
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- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Udyant Wig, 2014/09/20
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/19
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site,
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- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/20
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Udyant Wig, 2014/09/21
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/21
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Udyant Wig, 2014/09/22
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/22
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- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/19
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Stefan Monnier, 2014/09/19
- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Tom, 2014/09/19
- RE: emacs stackexchange beta site, Drew Adams, 2014/09/19
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- Re: emacs stackexchange beta site, Emanuel Berg, 2014/09/19