So any such site norms, I think, need to be about keeping it fun and interesting for old and new users both!
Sometimes it feels like all the virtue and site norm posts are a bit stodgy/threatening/frustrated-sounding, although to be fair some of that attitude is warranted.
+1. The thing I miss most about when EY stopped posting on this site is that his nonfiction writing is orders of magnitude more enjoyable than that of almost everyone else.
Nowadays I often dread the frequent walls of text in posts and comments, which are presumably written from their authors’ commendable desire to express themselves as accurately as possible. I wish more of them also had a commensurate desire (and skill) to delight their readers.
+1. The thing I miss most about when EY stopped posting on this site is that his nonfiction writing is orders of magnitude more enjoyable than that of almost everyone else.
Nowadays I often dread the frequent walls of text in posts and comments, which are presumably written from their authors’ commendable desire to express themselves as accurately as possible. I wish more of them also had a commensurate desire (and skill) to delight their readers.