Re: Re: Re: Question Your Opinions

[rchiav]

And how do you know how I meant it? Are merlyns posts terse? Yes they are.. and I' not referring to any basterdized version of the term. I meant it EXACTLY as it's defined. When his posts lack any type of feel and are just short tidbits of factual information, people tend to downvote them. That's what happens, right or wrong. If someone doesn't like answers like that, they have every right to downvote the node. And merlyn has every right to post them.

Please go and try to read someone elses mind...

Rich

[PsychoSpunk]

Well, there is always the if ($merlyn->terse) { $vote+=0; } option which would carry none of the negative connotation that I apparently read into your post.

In other words, if you don't find a node helpful, but it's not a particularly bad node (i.e. it helps someone), then why does this seem to affect the node's strengths. I'm not saying that merlyn is a god, and your votes are yours to spend, but why vote on a node that you are otherwise indifferent to? Everybody has a personality, and I don't see why merlyn has to write messages like footpad. :)

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

[rchiav]

I'm not saying that I personally vote this way. I've never actually downvoted one of merlyns nodes but I can see why someone would. It's not a matter of personality; it's a matter of perception. To say that someone doesn't have a legitimate reason to downvote a node is to say that your view of the node is the only one that's accurate. If someone reads one of his nodes and infers it as scaracstic and condicending, they might downvote it. Terse (brief, factual) comments often come across that way, especially in a textual context.

And what really matters; what the author meant or what the reader infers?.

Rich