If you are joining a community and want to be accepted and welcomed, it matters what they believe, value, and are aiming to do. For that matter, knowing this might determine whether or not you want to be involved.
Or in other words, that line means to say “hey, this is what we’re about”
The phrasing is ambiguous between descriptive of this fact and prescriptive for it, especially for new people joining the community, which is the connotation I’m objecting to. It’s bad as an argument or way of thinking in connection with that sentence, the implication of its relevance in that particular sentence is incorrect. It’s not bad to know that it’s true, and it’s not bad that it’s true.
If you are joining a community and want to be accepted and welcomed, it matters what they believe, value, and are aiming to do. For that matter, knowing this might determine whether or not you want to be involved.
Or in other words, that line means to say “hey, this is what we’re about”
I do like those posts quite a fair bit. Will add.
The phrasing is ambiguous between descriptive of this fact and prescriptive for it, especially for new people joining the community, which is the connotation I’m objecting to. It’s bad as an argument or way of thinking in connection with that sentence, the implication of its relevance in that particular sentence is incorrect. It’s not bad to know that it’s true, and it’s not bad that it’s true.