Re: Top posting (a different point of view)
On 6/10/05, Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:46:20PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote:
> > Carl Fink wrote:
> >
> > >Just out of curiosity: you do realize that "LCD" is an insult, right?
> > >
> > >
> > What is LCD?
>
> Least Common Denominator.
_Lowest_ Common Denominator where I grew up, and, whether it's an
insult or not, _accommodating_ the LCD is not only polite but
necessary. Actually, I was rather pissed off when I posted that
(people get too damned righteous about bottom vs top) and so, yes, I
_intended_ it as an insult. So, if anyone was insulted, my apologies.
There's nothing "lower" about processing information linearly.
Those of us who do _not_ require information to be presented in linear
order in order to process it are in a rather small minority, it seems,
and so it would be pretty absurd for a forum like this to accommodate
_us_. But I'm still a bit surprised that tech folks are so linear -
it's only in tech forums that I encounter this insistence on bottom
posting - at least where I work, tech people are among the smartest I
know, and so I would expect more lateral, reverse, circular, etc., and
less vertical information processing. But I also code a good bit, and
appreciate the need to do that in an orderly (essentially vertical)
way.
No offense intended to anyone. So if offense was taken, apologies.
Patrick
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