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tantek.com edited /discuss (+5296) "/* Chat Channels Purposes */ draft Chat behaviors to avoid or better elsewhere section with subsection on Frequent non-sequituring, Personal status or emotional updates, Monologuing or multi-posting" (view diff)
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[tantek] for everyone's review: https://indieweb.org/discuss#Chat_behaviors_to_avoid_or_better_elsewhere
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[tantek] [Sophia_wood] your feedback and input on this topic has been especially helpful in the past. Would appreciate your read of that section ^ when you have time (and take your time, it's not urgent).
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[Sophia_wood] [tantek] how best do you want feedback? mark down ok? dm?
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[tantek] Chat is ok or if you have suggested edits to the text in the new section I say be bold and make them! We can iterate as needed :)
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gRegor "Chat channels are more a place for community interaction than individual expression" seems particularly blurry. I don't have a suggested edit for it at the moment, but sharing that thought.
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gRegor Especially in -random and -cafe channels, which is more casual/off-topic
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[tantek] Yes I struggled with that one. Definitely open to rewriting that sentence
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[tantek] And yes agreed it's blurry and could be improved
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[Sophia_wood] Is there a way to do redlines in the edit mode?
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[Sophia_wood] I guess what I am saying - I am nervous about breaking something and curious if there is a way for someone to look at the pre-published state.
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gRegor You could try HTML <del> elements, not sure if MediaWiki supports them, but probably does
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gRegor You could also edit that section, copy the source, and put it on a wiki page under your User: page. I've done that with like /User:Gregorlove.com/sandbox
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gRegor We always have the full edit history, either way, so don't worry too much about breaking things. We can get it back :)
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[Sophia_wood] [gRegorLove] ++
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[Sophia_wood] [tantek] ++ for putting it together
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fractalkitty.com edited /discuss (-113) "/* Chat behaviors to avoid or better elsewhere */ - Copy edit section overview" (view diff)
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fractalkitty.com edited /discuss (+235) "/* Frequent non-sequituring */ - copyedit" (view diff)
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osteophage.neocities.org edited /large_language_model (+342) "added more blogposts about battling scrapers" (view diff)
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fractalkitty.com edited /discuss (+361) "/* Personal status or emotional updates */ - copyedit + edit pairing w/Tantek" (view diff)
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fractalkitty.com edited /discuss (-257) "/* Monologuing or multi-posting */ - copyedit + edit pairing w/Tantek" (view diff)
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[Sophia_wood] I just took a turn at it - take a look:
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[Sophia_wood] https://indieweb.org/discuss#Monologuing_or_multi-posting
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[Sophia_wood] Feedback and further iteration appreciated.
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[Sophia_wood] Thank you Tantek++
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[tantek] Thank you! Great edits [Sophia_wood]++
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CrowderSoup I actually love that, nice [Sophia_wood]!
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CrowderSoup [Sophia_wood]++
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[morgan] If I had to make a suggestion I'd add a little more into the discuss section about the fact that many people are coming into this Bridged space adjusting from social media platforms that encourage quick posting or chat prompty style writing and encourage a little grace and nudging in the right direction. And also a sort of reflection on the fact while some channels have hundreds of people in them only a few dozen are active any one time. I
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[morgan] think it's easy to not have a good sense of how active the place is. - written by someone who has written a monologue or two in his time
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tantek.com edited /discuss (-103) "/* Chat behaviors to avoid or better elsewhere */ de-dupe" (view diff)
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MD87 The non-sequitur bit is interesting. Although I probably wouldn't personally kool-aid-man into an ongoing conversation, it seems completely natural to have non-sequiturs in a big IRC channel, multiple conversations at once, etc. It can get hard to follow, but it's sort of the nature of the beast. Took me a moment to appreciate the perspective where that would be considered rude/hostile.
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aaronpk There's definitely a fine line on that
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CrowderSoup Yeah, I think a good general rule of thumb is to just try and be as interested in what other people are talking about as you are about what you have to share. Something I often need reminders of in every day life, too!
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[tantek] Good points about non-sequiturs. Maybe worth indicating that they're more welcome in #indieweb-random since, well, non-sequiturs can feel random 😆
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[tantek] MD87++ kool-aid-man is a great verb 😂
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gRegor OH YEAH!
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