On 07/10/2007, Alex Nordstrom lx@se.linux.org wrote:
Sunday, 7 October 2007, David Gerard wrote:
You appear to be taking great offence at them not accepting the means most convenient to *you*.
It's not quite that arbitrary. You can't really equate the effort of checking for and complying with such demands every time you need to leave someone a message with the effort of ticking a checkbox.
...a checkbox many people don't know is there.
I just ticked it for the first time ever. Mind you, I don't think I'd ever even looked at my Commons preferences page before, given it still has two things I try to remember to fix (time offsets and equation rendering)...
Case study time!
I have a note on my Commons talkpage (with its two whole messages in a year and a half) saying "you'll probably get a quicker response via [enwp talkpage]". It's there because when I set up a Commons account I didn't know about email notifications for page edits (indeed, they may not have been enabled) and, let's face it, I would never have heard about them without the fact that I happened to subscribe to commons-l one day.
My putting a note up isn't a "demand" to be complied with - and I don't think anyone else in my situation really thinks of it as one. It's a courtesy to Commons; "I don't come by here much, and when I do I'm often not logged in, so if you need to communicate with me, here's a way to reach me".
I am unsure exactly what I've done wrong. Clearly, if I was more involved in Commons, I might have heard that there were other ways of ensuring I heard about people wanting to communicate with me on Commons. But, if I was involved enough to have heard about those methods, I'd be involved enough to log in there more than once every few weeks.