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Those are valid questions when evaluating an unknown technology. How could anyone consider this trolling? Not to digress but have we become too sensitive?
by 19ylram49 7y ago
Those are valid questions when evaluating an unknown technology. How could anyone consider this trolling? Not to digress but have we become too sensitive?
- ptx 7y agoIt all depends on the tone of the question, which is hard to discern in writing, so the clarification is helpful. Edit: Yes, those are very valid and reasonable questions. Clarifying that it's not meant as trolling is also valid and reasonable, because writing is easily misunderstood in exactly that way - which is the reason smileys were invented. (And, to be clear, I'm not accusing anyone of missing smileys or of trolling. I am trying to express my agreement with both parent and grandparent.)
- markdog12 7y agoAsking a question in plain English like this shouldn't require further clarification.
- nimmer 7y agoSometime people troll by sealioning: http://wondermark.com/c/2014-09-19-1062sea.png http://wondermark.com/c/2014-09-19-1062sea.png (I'm not accusing the granparent post)
- anchpop 7y agoI've seen that comic before but have no idea what it's trying to express, could you explain? Is it just when you repeatedly pester someone with questions to annoy them?
- simplify 7y agoUnfortunately, asking questions on the internet is often seen as "opposing" or "arguing against" the thing you're asking about. So many qualify their statements to avoid this sort of misreading.
- markdog12 7y agoWhich just makes things worse. Having to qualify everything by default is a whole lot of foolishness.
- nfrankel 7y agoCommunication by writing is harder because you miss facial expressions. Because of this, a lot of it is subject to interpretation on the part of the reader. The tone can be inferred from a lengthy piece, but not so much from a small paragraph. So, in order to avoid bias on the reader part, I preferred to explicitly tell it was not trolling.