the other person assumes I have not thought the matter through.
It is sometimes very difficult detect expertise and to communicate it. This would be a very helpful skill to improve on but I have no idea how.
1) Use longer sentences and bigger words. The community appears to react favorably to academic styling in prose.
I guess this is right. I tend to very rapidly adapt the style of writing or talking of people around me. I feel like I manage to get in a fair amount of levity, though. Somehow “True story: my lesbian roommate runs mad game” got 5 karma. Sometimes I think, informal language is a way people here highlight really important messages. You’ll see really informal bumper-stickers to summarize academic style posts, I guess because informal language stands out from the formal.
Don’t let your rationality slip due a sense of comradery.
This makes me sad. It hasn’t felt quite that bad to me, still sad that people feel this way though.
Have you thought about which of these you would change?
Have you thought about which of these you would change?
They were observations about how I’ve had to alter myself to fit in successfully. I wasn’t trying to judge whether they were good or bad, and I’m not sure any of them really need changing.
The only thing I’d look into further is the amount of time people spend “on the clock” or sparring in the dojo, preferring a bit more tolerance of lighter material. But this desire appears at odds with the standards of the community, as it seems to consider lighter material as pure noise in the signal/noise ratio, and there’s a high demand for signal.
To appease both desires, perhaps improve on the Open Thread-style areas. Forums? More easily followed thread structures? Allowance for ‘OpenThread’ tagged, top-level posts with separate ‘recent’ threads? I’m not sure what specific action to suggest.
It is sometimes very difficult detect expertise and to communicate it. This would be a very helpful skill to improve on but I have no idea how.
I guess this is right. I tend to very rapidly adapt the style of writing or talking of people around me. I feel like I manage to get in a fair amount of levity, though. Somehow “True story: my lesbian roommate runs mad game” got 5 karma. Sometimes I think, informal language is a way people here highlight really important messages. You’ll see really informal bumper-stickers to summarize academic style posts, I guess because informal language stands out from the formal.
This makes me sad. It hasn’t felt quite that bad to me, still sad that people feel this way though.
Have you thought about which of these you would change?
They were observations about how I’ve had to alter myself to fit in successfully. I wasn’t trying to judge whether they were good or bad, and I’m not sure any of them really need changing.
The only thing I’d look into further is the amount of time people spend “on the clock” or sparring in the dojo, preferring a bit more tolerance of lighter material. But this desire appears at odds with the standards of the community, as it seems to consider lighter material as pure noise in the signal/noise ratio, and there’s a high demand for signal.
To appease both desires, perhaps improve on the Open Thread-style areas. Forums? More easily followed thread structures? Allowance for ‘OpenThread’ tagged, top-level posts with separate ‘recent’ threads? I’m not sure what specific action to suggest.