posting guidelines (was: OT - Best way to handle dbdebunk)

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:16:28 +0100
Message-ID: <43f34554$0$11068$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Roy Hann wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:
>>Marshall Spight wrote:

[snip]
>>> In short, I want to encourage you to discuss the
>>> ideas, not the people.

 >>

>> Last week (feb 8) garhone posted a 'request for posting guidelines':
>>
>>> Can someone direct me to the posting guidelines for
>>> this newsgroup, if any?

 >>

>>Nobody answered. I am not aware of any c.d.t. specific guidelines.
>>
>> 'Discuss ideas, not people.'
>>
>>seems like a nice one [snip]

>
> Can we add, "Discuss ideas, not yourself" too? Please?

Sometimes I use anecdotes from my personal experience to illustrate a point. I hope this rule is not meant to exclude these.

The goal of 'Discuss ideas, not people.' IMO is to improve the general signal to noise ratio.

Another suggestion: 'Take some time to make your post a nice read'.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~wijnands/nnq/nquote.html

OTOH neither of these are c.d.t. specific at all. Received on Wed Feb 15 2006 - 09:16:28 CST