Timeline for Were the "pre-canned" comments intended to be brusque and condescending? If so, why?
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| Dec 10, 2021 at 17:19 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Dec 3, 2021 at 12:33 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | @terdon Yeah, but once again -- was asked to add output of some terminal commands, responded with "I'll try to do that when I'm home" -- and got this. Like responding to "Yes, okay" with "I told you once, now I'm telling you three more times, and I'm going to assume you don't know how things work while I'm at it." As for formatting tools -- why are they hard to find? I often wish I had that page handy, and it's not in the sidebar or even the "help" menu. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 12:24 | comment | added | terdon | I don't read "properly formatted" or "vital information" as sarcastic at all. I personally wouldn't use properly, that does have some connotations, I would have gone with "please use the formatting tools (link) to format your question for clarity" or something like that. The vital information seems fine. Sure, I'd have gone for important but my guess is whoever wrote this isn't a native English speaker so may not get the same nuances. Overall it reads (to me) like an honest and friendly attempt to help, at worst a little clumsy. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 12:22 | comment | added | terdon | Ah yes, OK. Telling someone who's been here a while the basics of how the site works is indeed a bit presumptuous. Would you also feel it would be condescending if directed to a new user? I admit I have had to repeat "edit" with progressively more emphasis in consecutive comments so many times over the years, I also often go out of my way to repeat it. People, very naturally, tend to respond to comments in comments and it's hard to get them to not respond in this very intuitive way and instead edit their post. 9 times out of 10, my first "please edit" is ignored and I get a comment instead. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 12:18 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | @terdon I find repeating the edit link three times in a single comment seems like the commentor sees me as a little dense; not to mention "properly formatted"; "vital information" reads (to me) as sarcastic. Not to mention "don't comment on your own question" -- some of this makes sense for a 1, 11, or 101 rep user, but not 4500+. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 12:15 | comment | added | terdon | Can you explain how that is brusque or condescending? Is there a specific part of the comment you can point to? To me that reads as the complete opposite: I find that particularly friendly, polite and constructive. The bit about "our uplink to you" is weird, no idea what that's supposed to be, but the overall tone seems very friendly and polite. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 4:45 | answer | added | ZannaMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 21:10 | comment | added | muru | That is by no means recent. | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 20:25 | history | edited | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2021 at 20:25 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | Okay, found the "canned comments" meta I mentioned, I'll edit in the link. | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 20:06 | history | edited | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2021 at 20:03 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | Yep, "feedback as Community" was only part of the problem here, @muru -- I'll edit out that portion. | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 20:00 | comment | added | muru | If you're talking about meta.askubuntu.com/questions/19835/… when you say 'recent meta post encouraging use of "pre-canned" comments', note that it says "not leaving feedback as Community" | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 19:17 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | Ask Ubuntu is still a friendly place. The first comment is not a canned comment (at least not a default one AFAIK), the second one is a review auto comment, exactly the kind people are discouraged from using. The anonymous review comments are a network wide thing, I guess they are mostly for SO. If you see one of these comments you can flag them for a mod and they will remove them. Don't let some rubbish comments make you think no one cares any more, people still do. | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 18:50 | history | edited | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2021 at 18:09 | history | edited | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2021 at 17:57 | history | asked | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |