Proposal for ML conduct

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:17:17AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
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>
> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
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>> Terse is not the same as rude, I agree, and we're not trying to
>> moderate terseness.  However, if you're going to be copy/pasting an
>> answer like that, why not just make the form-response slightly less
>> terse to keep it more friendly?  (Or save it for the link's landing
>> page.)  Unless the "form-response" you're referring to is manually
>> typing the same thing out of personal habit, in which case I'd say
>> it's not very efficient.
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> For example. An email I've sent often contains entirely the below:
>
> """
> examples here: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumCodeSnippets
> -sv
> """
>
> I don't think the above is rude, at all, it is often in response to an  
> extremely vague/general question about programming with the yum python 
> modules.
>
> I think the moderation should not try to judge "friendliness" but only to  
> determine if the message is hostile and abusive.
>
> If only b/c of how many non-native english speakers we have who, I've  
> found, sometime do not understand the tone certain word choices connote.

True, wordiness is also not always more friendly.  Your example above
is a good example, in my opinion.

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