I'm posting this message because what's kept me around here all these years is
the love of being helpful on a subject I know a lot about (and sometimes of
looking smart, but hopefully more about being helpful).
Sometimes, there's just no nice and fuzzy way to respond with advice to
something one thinks is wrong, and in the past, I've often chosen to hedge and
hint rather than confront directly. While that's not very threatening, it
also doesn't always communicate much information or express the strength of my
opinion or my confidence in my answer.
Anyway, the following are my suggestions to people who are taken aback by a
reply from me or anyone more direct (and possibly more informative) than I who
also posts and replies on this group.
1. Don't take personal offense when someone questions one of your technical
opinions, practices, or code samples.
2. If you disagree with the respondent on a technical level, express your
disagreement, and do so on a technical level. If you're right, perhaps he/she
will be convinced, perhaps not. That's fine.
3. The respondent is probably not 100% right, and neither are you.
4. It is helpful to have a dialog, and have each participant and lurker arrive
at their own best opinions and conclusions after a proper and dispassionate
consideration of all available opinions and measurements. It's not terribly
important for some "more correct" person to "win" some argument or score some
rhetoric points.
5. It's OK to let a thread fizzle after all points have been expressed and no
agreement has been reached. 2 1039
Thanks! :-) I agree with you, and if I haven't said so: Thank U to all
who contributes to me improving my understanding of programming!
Speaking of people only concerned with scoring rhetoric points - please
ignore the troll.
[And ignore the plagiarism which is common around here.]
"Steve Jorgensen" <no****@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:8c********************************@4ax.com... I'm posting this message because what's kept me around here all these
years is the love of being helpful on a subject I know a lot about (and sometimes
of looking smart, but hopefully more about being helpful).
Sometimes, there's just no nice and fuzzy way to respond with advice to something one thinks is wrong, and in the past, I've often chosen to hedge
and hint rather than confront directly. While that's not very threatening, it also doesn't always communicate much information or express the strength
of my opinion or my confidence in my answer.
Anyway, the following are my suggestions to people who are taken aback by
a reply from me or anyone more direct (and possibly more informative) than I
who also posts and replies on this group.
1. Don't take personal offense when someone questions one of your
technical opinions, practices, or code samples.
2. If you disagree with the respondent on a technical level, express your disagreement, and do so on a technical level. If you're right, perhaps
he/she will be convinced, perhaps not. That's fine.
3. The respondent is probably not 100% right, and neither are you.
4. It is helpful to have a dialog, and have each participant and lurker
arrive at their own best opinions and conclusions after a proper and
dispassionate consideration of all available opinions and measurements. It's not
terribly important for some "more correct" person to "win" some argument or score
some rhetoric points.
5. It's OK to let a thread fizzle after all points have been expressed and
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