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Sunday, January 26, 2003 8:46:33 PM
Matt,
I am not trying to beat a dead horse, but I just reread your post. (Did you edit it after first posting it, or did I miss this the first time around?)
Being able to pick just the right touch of "handling" the dynamic situation is what does it -- not consistently slapping the wrist in the same place on each person.
This is an example of what I alluded to in my last post about this issue. You used quotes around the word HANDLING. Yet you recently chastised (slapped the wrist) of a longterm member for using quotation marks in their post.
In that post you said to the member that if he used quotation marks in his replies to you that you would not respond to him. Does that make sense?
Quotation Marks in a post are no different than BOLDING or ITALIZING or UNDERLINING the words. Why should quotation marks "BOTHER YOU?"
This gets back to the Professionalism issue.
To me, your best stance would be to not provoke angst and ire amongst members by making statements about such mundane things as use of quotation marks in a post. Or the use of YOUR vs. YOU'RE! THERE vs. THEIR! etc.
While it may BUG YOU that the member used quotes or WRONG GRAMMAR, we all know that the ultimate attempt was that the member was merely trying to communicate!
Do we spank a child because they say "I NEED A COOKIE", rather than...."I WANT A COOKIE"....??
Get past the semantics of proper grammar in the website, and learn to read between the lines, grammatical errors, and REASONS WHY PEOPLE MIGHT BOLD SOMETHING!, and it would help you immensely in dealing with the real issues of the problems you face as admin.
...........stepping off my soapbox now.
:)
I am not trying to beat a dead horse, but I just reread your post. (Did you edit it after first posting it, or did I miss this the first time around?)
Being able to pick just the right touch of "handling" the dynamic situation is what does it -- not consistently slapping the wrist in the same place on each person.
This is an example of what I alluded to in my last post about this issue. You used quotes around the word HANDLING. Yet you recently chastised (slapped the wrist) of a longterm member for using quotation marks in their post.
In that post you said to the member that if he used quotation marks in his replies to you that you would not respond to him. Does that make sense?
Quotation Marks in a post are no different than BOLDING or ITALIZING or UNDERLINING the words. Why should quotation marks "BOTHER YOU?"
This gets back to the Professionalism issue.
To me, your best stance would be to not provoke angst and ire amongst members by making statements about such mundane things as use of quotation marks in a post. Or the use of YOUR vs. YOU'RE! THERE vs. THEIR! etc.
While it may BUG YOU that the member used quotes or WRONG GRAMMAR, we all know that the ultimate attempt was that the member was merely trying to communicate!
Do we spank a child because they say "I NEED A COOKIE", rather than...."I WANT A COOKIE"....??
Get past the semantics of proper grammar in the website, and learn to read between the lines, grammatical errors, and REASONS WHY PEOPLE MIGHT BOLD SOMETHING!, and it would help you immensely in dealing with the real issues of the problems you face as admin.
...........stepping off my soapbox now.
:)
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