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> They draw you in to watching... nothing I'm curious why you feel this way, particularly if it's not a conversation you're actively participating in?
by GrinningFool 10y ago
> They draw you in to watching... nothing
I'm curious why you feel this way, particularly if it's not a conversation you're actively participating in?
- Stratoscope 10y agoThanks for asking. I hadn't really thought about it, but the problem seems to be when it's a conversation I am actively participating in. I'll see "GrinningFool is typing", and then the message goes away for a while. Then comes back again. And disappears again. And back once more! Then I realize someone may be doing like I do: typing an incomplete response, then going off to check some docs or to think about it, then come back to type some more, and pausing to think some more. By the time all this happens, I've spent several minutes watching the "... is typing" messages, when I could have used those few minutes to take a stretch break, or pick up the mess on the desk, or just about anything but watching the "... is typing" messages. After all, I'll get notified anyway when someone hits the Enter key.
- GrinningFool 10y agoThe context helps a lot, I do have the same problem to an extent. I tend to view it as similar to seeing the facial/body cues I'd get normally [and often miss...] that tell me someone is attentive and participating - or about to- in in the conversation. I learned elsewhere in this discussion that there's a config option to disable that feedback - I'm undecided on whether that's what I actually what I want...