about Mark...

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2015-05-09 20:53, Richmond wrote:
> On 09/05/15 21:37, Colin Holgate wrote:
>> This is in no way a complaint! But I’m curious about how much Mark is 
>> posting these days. Did he run out of things to develop?
> 
> That's a bit of a b*tchy comment.

Hehe - as a first reading then, yes, it could have potentially sounded 
like that. However, that comes down to the limitation of any purely text 
based communication medium.

Obviously I've met Colin a few times, so know how he speaks to some 
extent and also his mannerisms. When I read things from people I've 
physically met or actually spoken to my mind reverts to their voice in 
my head saying it with presumed inflections. In this case, I could 
imagine precisely how Colin would have said it had I been speaking to 
him face-to-face, (I'm sure there would have been a slight chortle in 
his voice as he said the last sentence) and thus interpreted (I hope) in 
the way it was intended.

>> It is exciting to see him participating here.
> 
> Yes, it is, and it should be welcomed, instead of having snide
> comments lobbed at it.

Again it wasn't snide.

One of the problems I think purely text-based internet online has is 
that we completely loose any context as to the comments people make. I 
suspect it is one of the biggest sources of 'flame-wars' and other such 
perhaps not so healthy online discourse that occurs.

No one is perfect - and indeed in recent history I completely mistook a 
post Richard made in the Engine Contrib forum (look for one on 
date/time) and it wasn't until after I'd posted I'd completely missed 
the fact he was couching his comments in a jovial-jokey type way.

So, just remember, before you hit send - reread what someone said, 
reread what your reply is and try to think about how they might have 
said it :)

-- 
Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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