Thanks for quoting an email sent directly to you, intentionally not CC'd to the list, onto the list publicly. I sent it to you directly intentionally. Glad you took my direct-to-you email and made it public, thanks for that.
(You've lost points with me.) ------ Thomas On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella <es204904...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thomas Ward: >> >> BUT they do not add fluff images or unnecessary images. They add >> what's necessary. > > > Not true. Check that they purposely add images that have no explanatory > intention. I have already done, just in case I was mistaken. > > In fact my inspiration had been those books, not the Internet. And lately > confirmed by common social media advice. > > > Alberto Salvia Novella: >> This is a topic I have been thinking for a while, and concluded I had >> some vices. Probably Elfy has thought that we were about to fall in >> those again, but I have at present abandoned the ideas that let to >> them. > > Thomas Ward: >> Apparently you haven't. To quote you in your prior email in which i >> said that... > > Elfy: >> All it says to me is that Alberto has stopped littering mailing list >> posts with emojii's and is now littering wiki pages with images. > > Alberto Salvia Novella: >> Non-logic, evasive and manipulative speaking. > > The answer is this emotional manipulation was very dangerous to the > conversation and needed to be spotted. Since the language was very > inappropriate I chose clarity over diplomacy, as anything else would had > made the conversation to fall into the manipulation; or worse, into the idea > I deserve being treated like that. > > > Thomas Ward: >> NOBODY likes public threads getting dirty and attacking of others. >> This isn't the first time I've observed this coming from you two, and >> it's likely to not be the last. > > As I said, I'm over getting that personal. > > > Thomas Ward: >> You've made the decision yourself on your own to improve the >> documentation, and that's fine. > > No, the decisions I have made had been over a proposal; and they are only > meant to go into the documentation after there's polishing and consensus > over them. The goal had been to have a prototype, where approaches could be > tested just in time. > > > Thomas Ward: >> You may be trying to 'improve' it, but you're not accepting the >> criticism that you're asking for from the community, NOR are you >> understanding the points I'm trying to make with regards to visual >> engagement in posts (whether it be wikis, or anything else). > > So why I'm writing now in plain text only? > > The only two suggestions that I have not implemented from all the amount I > have received had been: > > - Not using pictographs in wiki-pages, just because I have not decided on > it yet; as probably would be a better moment to do when Utopic is released > and pictographs are supported by default in Ubuntu. > > - Not using some kinds of images in wiki-pages, as we have just started the > conversation! > > Even the redaction style in wiki-pages is the way people asked to be. > > > Thomas Ward: >> To that end, you're not accepting the criticism that multiple users >> currently do not agree with some of the images used - mainly that >> you're adding fluff. > > Converting documentation into a playground is a sift, and people can be > resistant to that. So specifically in this regard I want to make sure points > of view are based on deliberation rather than rejection by default of > unknown approaches. > > If you want to know, I have no special faith on using images at the bottom > of pages. What I'm mostly cautious is that small decision being taken away > by the status quo, as it defines a style of decision talking itself. > > The status quo of learning is text, the same as the status quo of Unix is > "man". It doesn't mean these are bad, but they are the default. > > > Thomas Ward: >> Why are you posting this on the QA list instead of the bugsquad list? > > Because I thought the Bug-Squad team had joined the Quality team a long time > ago, and was listed in Launchpad just for historical reasons. So is this a > mistake? > > > Good night. > > > > -- > Ubuntu-quality mailing list > Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality > -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
