NorthAI the Hand wrote:
I never did claim to wear silken gloves or that when my mouth opened, it poured rainbows and unicorn farts. However, if you read my post again without immediately jumping to conclusions, you might see that the malice or... heh... harshness didn't actually exist. This is a written medium, and thus the tone of voice doesn't carry over. I answered the question, while giving sound advice. No harshness, no malice. Merely a short, straight answer. With some advice thrown in for good measure.
Don't like it? Well, I've had ratecampers before. They just make me giggle. Feeling my karmacount taking those insignificant little hits just tickles.
While this is a written median, your choice in words does affect the way people read it and can project and imitate a tone. For instance, you can say:
When the question is simple, don't waste both your own time, and ours.
Or you could say something like:
With simple questions, save yourself some time and trouble, and do a simple search.
Both say basically the same thing, but I read the first one as a more aggresive sentence than the second.
As far as the rating, I hope your not accusing me of it, because I don't rate people, up or down, too much of a joke and waste of effort to worry about ratings, so I don't even bother with it.
