The Importance of Terminology's Quality

[George Neuner]

On Thu, 8 May 2008 22:38:44 -0700, "Waylen Gumbal" <wgumgfy at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Sherman Pendley wrote:
>> kodifik at eurogaran.com writes:
>> >
>> > > PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
>> > > FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:
>> >
>> > I don't think Xah is trolling here (contrary to his/her habit)
>> > but posing an interesting matter of discussion.
>>
>> It might be interesting in the abstract, but any such discussion, when
>> cross-posted to multiple language groups on usenet, will inevitably
>> devolve into a flamewar as proponents of the various languages argue
>> about which language better expresses the ideas being talked about.
>> It's like a law of usenet or something.
>>
>> If Xah wanted an interesting discussion, he could have posted this to
>> one language-neutral group such as comp.programming. He doesn't want
>> that - he wants the multi-group flamefest.
>
>Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as comp,programming 
>as you pointed out), so you actually reach more people by cross posting. 
>This is what I don't understand - everyone seems to assume that by cross 
>posting, one intends on start a "flamefest", when in fact most such 
>"flamefests" are started by those who cannot bring themselves to 
>skipping over the topic that they so dislike.

The problem is that many initial posts have topics that are misleading
or simplistic.  Often an interesting discussion can start on some
point the initial poster never considered or meant to raise.

George
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