Re: [WikiEN-l] About tl;dr

2010-06-04 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:06 PM 6/3/2010, AGK wrote: On 3 June 2010 22:01, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Not saying this to try to prod him into stop posting here, but as a genuine statement: I happen to enjoy Abd's commentary /when I have the time to read it/. I'd happily read his blog regularly (especially

[WikiEN-l] About tl;dr

2010-06-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Original subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins - The theory that making it easier to get rid of admins is a solution to the decline in their active numbers At 03:46 PM 6/2/2010, quiddity wrote: Abd, please take the time to make your thoughts more readily parsable. Don't

Re: [WikiEN-l] About tl;dr

2010-06-03 Thread Steve Summit
Abd wrote: [400+ words that I didn't read all of and so won't bother to quote] As a grave sufferer of logorrhea myself, it's tempting to write several hundred words here myself, but I'll settle for fifty. It doesn't matter how you justify a too-long screed; if its length prevents people from

Re: [WikiEN-l] About tl;dr

2010-06-03 Thread David Gerard
On 3 June 2010 16:48, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Underneath all this is a presumption that I have time to write more condensed material. I don't, generally. When I do have the time, and have a point to make, i.e., some message I consider necessary to communicate