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I'd say it's up to the individual whether they find something rude or not. It's not an objective truth, and it certainly varies between cultures. On top of that
by lb4r 3y ago
I'd say it's up to the individual whether they find something rude or not. It's not an objective truth, and it certainly varies between cultures. On top of that, different forms of communication have different conventions and practices. Slack is different from normal texts, which are different from emails, and so on, and they permeate your life to various degrees.
- rhn_mk1 3y agoIt's rather meaningless to let the receiver decide. It means that the only safe-not-to-be-rude option is to adhere to the strictest interpretation of rudeness. At the extreme sensitivity, you basically can't communicate with anyone unless you ask their preferences beforehand over a confirmed-not-rude channel. Following this direction puts the default for each medium, regardless of its properties, into "it's rude to attempt communication". IMO, it's overkill. We invented communication to communicate, and we built in things like being asynchronous to some forms of communication. So we should not give them up just because someone might find it rude. There's a level after which the sender should have more say over what is rude than the receiver.
- smallnix 3y agoI perceive it as rude to get messages in the middle of the night.
- lb4r 3y agoI'm just saying that what someone may perceive as rudeness, someone else may not, and vice versa. Social interaction and communication is a balance between many things, and if you don't take your potential for rudeness into consideration at all, people will probably not like you very much (which I guess some people are fine with). Either way, I don't think anyone would advocate for taking things to the extremes mentioned in your post.