[Foundation-l] The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent firing?

[wjhonson at aol.com]

Isn't it however Michael true that a plain text message conveys little to no "tone"
I could say the above sentence with anger, with sarcasm, with hope and without emotion at all.
You cannot tell how I'm inflecting it, simply by the words.
Sometimes or even most-times people will add the tone.
Some people's manner of address is direct, and that is read, in an email, by some, as a form of caustic speech I suppose.  That doesn't however mean that that is the way it was intended to be understood.


 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2009 7:09 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The state of Foundation-l (again) was: Recent firing?










wjhonson at aol.com wrote:
>  Maybe you could explain a little more clearly, how people are "scared" by 
reading (or just seeing) ten messages on the same topic?  How does that frighten 
people?
>   
It's not simply the ten messages on one topic, it's the tone and content 
of the messages that is scaring them. But the ten messages in quick 
succession is a common characteristic among the discussions with that tone.

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/11/7 effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>:
>   
>> I would agree with that 'solution' if I would agree with the "delete and
>> ignore" solution, which is, imho, not a solution at all. That is a bit the
>> problem :) And I literally meant scare btw.
>>     
> Could you explain why you think ignoring emails doesn't work? It works
> perfectly well for me.
People are scared because they experience an emotional response to the 
tone and content of the messages. Ignoring the message (that is, doing 
nothing after you've read it) is not a solution to that problem. The 
implicit rejoinder you're giving them is, "Don't have emotions." That 
doesn't work, because people are human.

--Michael Snow


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