{"id":11361,"date":"2022-08-30T19:08:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11361"},"modified":"2022-08-30T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T23:08:06","slug":"why-i-dont-do-quote-reply-quote-reply-answers-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11361","title":{"rendered":"Why I don’t do quote-reply, quote-reply answers anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early days of Internet e-mail and Usenet, responding to messages one paragraph, one sentence at a time has become fashionable. For instance, if King Arthur were to have received an e-mail from the silly Frenchmen occupying a castle, accusing the good King of being the son of a hamster mother and a father who smelled of elderberries, he might have responded thusly:<\/p>\n

> your mother was a hamster\r\nAre you accusing my Mother of sexual infidelity?\r\n> your father smelled of elderberries\r\nWho're you calling a drunkard, you hopeless retards?<\/pre>\n
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In my experience, electronic conversations using this format often very quickly deteriorated into name-calling, or worse. And I think I can even tell why. Picking and choosing which words to quote and them quoting them out of context is a perfect method to manufacture outrage. So in my personal conversations, with very rare exceptions, I now avoid the quote-reply format altogether. Isn’t it much more pleasant to read a polite, fully formed message?<\/p>\n
Thank you for your concerns regarding my parents. I assure you, good Sirs, that my mother was not a member of the rodent family. She bore no resemblance whatsoever to the rodents you mention, either in appearance or behavior. Concerning my father, I clearly recall that he never enjoyed elderberry-flavored beverages. He preferred to enjoy tea, mildly flavored with honey.<\/em><\/p>\n
The quote-reply format is still okay when it comes to technical discussions, which may readily lend themselves to being presented in the form of individual points, each of which may have a specific technical solution. But in a personal conversation, I think that a fully formed response shows a degree of respect towards the other party and also helps avoid letting the discussion deteriorate into a string of accusations, a bitter argument with ad hominem insults.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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