On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:04:26 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm seeing this annoying practice more and more often. Even for trivial > pieces of text, a few lines, people post screenshots instead of copying > the code. > > Where has this meme come from? It seems to be one which inconveniences > *everyone* involved: > > - for the sender, instead of a simple copy and paste, they have to take a > screen shot, possibly trim the image to remove any bits of the screen > they don't want to show, attach it to their email or upload it to an > image hosting site; > > - for the receiver, you are reliant on a forum which doesn't strip > attachments, or displays externally hosted images; the visually impaired > are excluded from using a screen reader; and nobody can copy or edit the > given text. > > It is as if people are deliberately inconveniencing themselves in order > to inconvenience the people they are asking to help them. > > With the exception of one *exceedingly* overrated advantage, namely the > ability to annotate the image with coloured lines and circles and > squiggles or other graphics (which most people don't bother to do), this > seems to me to be 100% counter-productive for everyone involved. Why has > it spread and why do people keep doing it? > > I don't want to be the old man yelling "Get Of My Lawn!" to the cool > kids, but is this just another sign of the downward spiral of programming > talent? Convince me that there is *some* justification for this practice. > Even a tiny one. > > (The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code > out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and leave the internet forever.)
I can think of no justification for it. -- <Wildman> GNU/Linux user #557453 May the Source be with you. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
