I started to write an anecdote in my post for ModSquad today (a brief run down on multiple feedback channels) to explain exactly how I knew some of these things and decided… nah.
But I couldn’t not snicker about it. The four of you who have been reading my ramblings for ten years (HOLY CRAP, TEN YEARS) will join me in a hearty laugh at this one particular bit:
Forum posters aren’t just telling you what you need to know. They’re also performing for an audience and getting feedback of their own. You don’t have time to filter out the nugget of truth in both the rant and the feedback letter.
Oh, the irony. It burns.
There might be evidence (somewhere!) that you know something about that from personal experience.
*snicker*
My daughter thought I was having an asthma attack or something, she walked in at the end when I was trying to laugh with nothing but the CO2 coming out of my aching lungs. I didn’t pass out, but I was a pretty shade of purple at the end.
–Dave (but then, I might be living in a glass house….)
Well, you know what they say about those of us living in glass houses…
…put some pants on.
Somehow the thought of forum posters as performing for their own audiances makes me imagine forums as being more Shakespearean. To that end, I think this quote seems appropriate:
“Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
Oooh. Touche, DP, touche.
/me puts on Top hat.
/me dances
/me bows.