Hmm, maybe they LIKE computers, they want to ENJOY using them. It's a matter of culture, they take pride in the products. The top priority isn't selling hundreds of thousands of them, they aren't interested in making some cheap junk to sell to a bunch of sheep, man.
I send you an email. You reply BELOW my email?... Why would I want to read what I already wrote? I KNOW what I wrote. I'm paying attention, I don't need to read that again. If I want to read it again I scroll DOWN, into the past.
It makes way more sense, just because you (and I) have been geeks for >15 years doesn't mean a newer way can't be better. It's far more sensible to want to read the latest in a conversation instead of the beginning of a conversation.
Yes the end key is helpful, if I want to go BACK to the beginning of a conversation... which = NOT THAT OFTEN. 99% of the time I'm interested in reading the most recent reply and then replying again. Not to mention I want the idiot luser to actually see my reply quickly and respond so I can, in short order, not have to correspond with them anymore.
"Change it yourself" is like saying "if skinheads painted Nazi slogans on your house wall, just repaint it". Is that really OK and is all that should be done? Nobody should be pursued for this?
Uhm... it's not like some skinheads painted slogans on your house wall... it's more like they painted nazi slogans on a wall in a public place MEANT for painting slogans on. In that case, if you walked by and saw the 'offensive' slogans then yes, you would simply paint over it.
The 'your house' analogy is totally incorrect, it wasn't this dude's personal website that got the incorrect information posted on it. It was a public space for anyone to post information. The fact that it was wrong just takes someone else to come by, notice that, and change it to the correct information... or even different incorrect information.
A wiki isn't necessarily a discussion OR a reference, it can be both, or neither.
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Hmm, maybe they LIKE computers, they want to ENJOY using them. It's a matter of culture, they take pride in the products. The top priority isn't selling hundreds of thousands of them, they aren't interested in making some cheap junk to sell to a bunch of sheep, man.
'untrained' people... not to mention BUSY people.
I send you an email. You reply BELOW my email?... Why would I want to read what I already wrote? I KNOW what I wrote. I'm paying attention, I don't need to read that again. If I want to read it again I scroll DOWN, into the past.
It makes way more sense, just because you (and I) have been geeks for >15 years doesn't mean a newer way can't be better. It's far more sensible to want to read the latest in a conversation instead of the beginning of a conversation.
Yes the end key is helpful, if I want to go BACK to the beginning of a conversation... which = NOT THAT OFTEN. 99% of the time I'm interested in reading the most recent reply and then replying again. Not to mention I want the idiot luser to actually see my reply quickly and respond so I can, in short order, not have to correspond with them anymore.
Uhm... it's not like some skinheads painted slogans on your house wall... it's more like they painted nazi slogans on a wall in a public place MEANT for painting slogans on. In that case, if you walked by and saw the 'offensive' slogans then yes, you would simply paint over it.
The 'your house' analogy is totally incorrect, it wasn't this dude's personal website that got the incorrect information posted on it. It was a public space for anyone to post information. The fact that it was wrong just takes someone else to come by, notice that, and change it to the correct information... or even different incorrect information.
A wiki isn't necessarily a discussion OR a reference, it can be both, or neither.