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Suzanne S. Barnhill shared this with us in
microsoft.public.word.newusers: My impression, though, was that most of the incivility here was coming in by way of Usenet and almost certainly from the orphaned (and deprecated) microsoft.public.word.general. By "here" I meant "in this thread," but when I switched to "Show All Messages," I was surprised to discover that "this thread" was not the one I thought it was, but the comment still applies: note that none of the participants are @discussions.com. Indeed, you ARE correct! In this case... for every rule there are exceptions. My personal observation is that in most other cases the incivility comes from "relatively new" users (more than 1 year but less than 5 years of internet usage), and there is a higher probability for a "new user" to be on a forum, not on usenet. -- Amedee Van Gasse |
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I'm not so sure. The new users who come in via the forums may be ignorant of
Netiquette and totally clueless about how to ask questions, and they are often very frustrated with Word by the time they arrive here, but for the most part they are fairly timid and don't become generally abusive (if only because they have so much trouble finding a specific thread again that they don't hang around long enough). Where I see the highest level of incivility is in threads in which the Word NGs are infected by cross-posting to NGs in other product areas (where the level of civility is evidently not as high) and especially to actual Usenet NGs (ones not on the msnews server), where a more rough-and-ready posting style apparently obtains. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Amedee Van Gasse" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers: My impression, though, was that most of the incivility here was coming in by way of Usenet and almost certainly from the orphaned (and deprecated) microsoft.public.word.general. By "here" I meant "in this thread," but when I switched to "Show All Messages," I was surprised to discover that "this thread" was not the one I thought it was, but the comment still applies: note that none of the participants are @discussions.com. Indeed, you ARE correct! In this case... for every rule there are exceptions. My personal observation is that in most other cases the incivility comes from "relatively new" users (more than 1 year but less than 5 years of internet usage), and there is a higher probability for a "new user" to be on a forum, not on usenet. -- Amedee Van Gasse |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill shared this with us in
microsoft.public.word.newusers: especially to actual Usenet NGs (ones not on the msnews server), where a more rough-and-ready posting style apparently obtains. You mean a "hit-and-run" posting style. At home I have my default "don't feed this troll" message, with some nice ASCII art. ;-) Anyway your observation may be right in the case of the Microsoft newsgroups. Forum users over here may be ignorant and clueless (some, not all) but don't stick around, because of the specific nature and sheer volume of messages. On the other hand, I have seen other forums (like the user forum of my ISP) where the opposite is true: the newbies do stick around, and the worst part of the year is when high school and college students have their exams (=now). One might wonder if they shouldn't study... -- Amedee Van Gasse |
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We have had a number of obviously student-type (or student-age) posters in
some of these NGs for a time. Even when they aren't rude, arrogant know-it-alls, they often "helpfully" post dozens of inaccurate, incomplete, or just plain wrong answers before they move on. Aside from posting the correct answer in parallel, about all you can do is hold your breath and bite your tongue till they move on. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Amedee Van Gasse" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers: especially to actual Usenet NGs (ones not on the msnews server), where a more rough-and-ready posting style apparently obtains. You mean a "hit-and-run" posting style. At home I have my default "don't feed this troll" message, with some nice ASCII art. ;-) Anyway your observation may be right in the case of the Microsoft newsgroups. Forum users over here may be ignorant and clueless (some, not all) but don't stick around, because of the specific nature and sheer volume of messages. On the other hand, I have seen other forums (like the user forum of my ISP) where the opposite is true: the newbies do stick around, and the worst part of the year is when high school and college students have their exams (=now). One might wonder if they shouldn't study... -- Amedee Van Gasse |
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