Antic episode 7 now out! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Jan 2014

----- Original Message ----- 

Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:44:33 +0000
From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Antic episode 7 now out!

...
  ...If someone appears in one of those corners and
top-posts everywhere, 
 they badge themselves as a clueless newbie who couldn't be bothered to go 
 to the minimal effort of learning how things work and how to participate. 
 This person is therefore very unlikely to be a useful member of that 
 community; in fact, they're more likely to worsen the signal:noise ratio 
 and thus contribute to its decline.... 
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I happen to think that what actually "worsens the signal:noise ratio and 
contributes to a list's decline" is folks who feel the need to repeatedly 
comment publicly on hoary old topics like this one and insult people who 
have a different perspective, knowing full well that it will inevitably 
derail the original thread and generate a number of off-topic posts like 
this one.

Some quite clever and useful people find top-posting more efficient; get 
used to it! And if your purpose really was to 'educate' the OP instead of 
just being rude and insulting in public, why not do it off-list.