OK, I've decided to be sucked back in for one more response... On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:50, Mike Migurski wrote: > > Here's an argument: the correlation between intelligent, active members of
Subjective evaluation based on no empirical data and probaby not even on any kind of professional experience. > this list and bottom-posters seems to be pretty high. When a member top > posts, there's a pretty good chance that their questions and comments will Again subjective. > be ignored -- I know for sure that I am less inclined to participate in > discussions that make it unnecessarily difficult for me follow along, for > formal reasons such as top posting or terrible grammar and puncuation. As is your prerogative. > Besides, what kind of person pointedly belches at the dinner just because > some /other/ culture out there believes it's acceptable? ...Because that's > essentially what you're doing now. Etiquette rarely exists without reason, As is MY prerogative. > and a Google search on 'top posting' turns up gobs of excellent arguments There are also plenty of arguments FOR top posting. > against the practice, including at least one RFC that frowns on it. RFC means request for comments. It does not define a rule or a law. Perhaps someone should add a comment. > Personally I don't care either way, but I am a lot more inclined to > participate in online discussions where a significant number of the > members have shown personal concern for the formal qualities of their > outbound communications. Common sense, right? Yes you're re-iterating your circular arguments. Here's how I see your point of view: Everyone must do it because the majority are doing it (AKA the sheep follows the sheep follows... who's leading?) I want all the bottom posters to like me so I'll say that all the bottom posters are smarter than he top posters. This will be a really good argument since it gets all the bottom posters to like me and of course popularity means more rightness (AKA never side with the unpopular). The rest of the world just can't be wrong (AKA the world really is flat). I found arguments for bottom posting on google, thus it must be more right (AKA someone share's my point of view so I'm right). I can justify my argument by referring back to my argument (AKA the more I argue that my argument is more correct the more correct it will become). If I say I don't really care people will believe my opinion more because I've made it seem like I have nothing to gain by being right (AKA the noble debater). blah, blah blah. Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
