From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 61325@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:55:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8k33rnb.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cz6k5njc.fsf@yahoo.com>
Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Please, do not use appeal to ridicule.
>
> But that's the point.
>
> Most people will find ridiculous that the following paragraph:
>
> Other people use ``kill files'', but we here at Gnus Towers like
> scoring better than killing, so we’d rather switch than fight. They
> do something completely different as well, so sit up straight and pay
> attention!
>
> makes the subsequent four paragraphs describing score files less clear:
No, the first paragraph does not make the following paragraphs less
clear. My problem with this paragraph is different: if contains
technical information that is hard to understand without understanding
the joke.
> Asking us to delete every joke that someone finds confusing is not far
> from those lines, and is in fact a very slippery slope leading directly
> to that proposal.
I am not asking to delete every single joke. I am asking to change or
delete the jokes that impair ability of the manual to explain the
technical information. Note that I specifically listed concrete jokes in
the initial report.
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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2023-02-06 16:01 bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-06 16:20 ` dick
2023-02-12 6:11 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-06 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-06 16:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
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2023-02-06 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-06 17:04 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-18 13:59 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2023-02-19 10:43 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-20 5:18 ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-06 17:23 ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-02-06 17:49 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-06 18:37 ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-02-06 18:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
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