But the comments there reflect the feelings of many of us about the
misuse of edit summaries.
I for one will certainly warn anyone who uses sarcasm on contributors.
Yes, if it is all clearly part of an undrstood joke, that's another
matter. But usually only one party thinks it's funny.
On 10/16/07, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 17/10/2007, David Goodman
<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would not encourage your doing this. Sarcasm is
difficult at best,
and can really hurt--and edit summaries are very visible and almost
impossible to modify.
I know every time I tried even mild sarcasm in any context the
recipient has been offended--and I soon learned better--at least I
hope I have not relapsed.
The nature of edit summaries is rightly a frequent issues at RfA--not
just whether someone is using them or not.
I don't consider RfA an issue to consider...
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