Re: [libreoffice-users] Top posting

Hi :) 
I did not change them but i applaud whoever did.  

The main argument that the bottom-poster-fanatics use in order to demand that everyone else is only 
allowed to bottom post is that the guidelines suggest doing so.  That is clearly not working so the 
guidelines needed to be changed to support what the target-market of this list are more comfortable 
with.  

In my opinion people should be allowed to post as they want without being subjected to the bullying 
of the bottom-posters.  That view seems to be supported by everyone that top-posts that has 
commented in this thread.  

Can we not accept that the main purpose of this thread is to answer people's questions and make 
them feel comfortable about asking questions?  Clearly not.  It seems the main aim of this list, 
according to the bottom-posters, is 
1.  to keep subjecting us all to this pointless argument, 
2.  to bully anyone that doesn't obey them
3.  to make people uncomfortable about asking questions for fear of intimidation.  

If the guidelines now say that only top posting is acceptable then that is great because none of 
the top-posters are going to use those guidelines to bully people.  None of the top-posters are 
going to claim that the guidelines are rules and not really guidelines at all.  

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Fri, 24/2/12, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

From: Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Top posting
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 24 February, 2012, 8:42

At 06:40 23/02/2012 -0900, Marc Grober wrote:
> Notice that I am top posting as suggested by the guidelines ...

I don't get involved in these disputes, mainly because they are characterised by intransigence and 
_ad hominem_ arguments - and I won't do so now.  But you simply cannot expect to argue based on a 
falsehood!  When you wrote this, the guidelines (at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette ) 
did not suggest top posting, but rather anything but:

> ... please do interspersion with trimming [...]. For a simple reply, this is equivalent to 
> bottom-posting. So, remove extraneous material, and place your comments in logical order, after 
> the text you are commenting upon.

But since then someone has changed this to remove any sort of guidance at all.  Perhaps you made 
the change?!  Or perhaps the original culprit did?  It's a fun system - isn't it? - when those who 
are directed to guidelines and find they don't like them simply change them!

Brian Barker


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