Re: Trying to find out cause of blacklisting

G|_|Y |\/|AC0|\| wrote:
> Ejo wrote...
>
>> Mike: why are your replies so wordy?
>
> I very much prefer his current writing style and would
> consider shorter answers to be a Bad Thing.

I have a friend who I help with some things, and I sense that I almost
always 'lose him' because of my wordiness, so I have to spend about
twice as much time as I normally would with my answers.

The fastest thing for me to do is to just 'ramble' as a 'stream of
consciousness' as if I were talking and waving my arms around.  There is
disorder, misspelled or rather 'wrong' words [substitute one common word
for another, or apostrophe wrong] and I don't like to proofread [by the
time I've rambled on for a while I'm tired of the mission] and it
certainly isn't concise or terse or succinct or 'to the point.'

I could 'eventually' make it so, but it would take a little over twice
as long.

When I give my friend a 'pure' wordy answer, he doesn't 'get it' very
well at all.  He may later tell me that he 'figured it out' and explains
to me what he figured out which is what I had told him.

So, with him, if I really want him to get it the first time, I have to
do one of two things.  Either I have to spend just about as much time
more figuring out how to put the 'bottom line at the top' -- where I say
everything I've said in the wordiness in just a few lines, like bullets,
and then I put those lines at the top.   Or, I create a 'graphical
display' of whatever I'm talking about made of screenshots and
annotations.  It is faster to do the bottom line at the top, but he gets
it a lot better if there are annotated screenshots.  And just
screenshots isn't good enough.  That's a waste of time I've learned.
Either annotated or not at all for the screenshots.

If it gives you a clue about how he 'reads' a post or email, he also top
posts.  Usually.  Except when he absolutely has to communicate something
effectively to me - then he puts it inline.  But he never trims.

Oh well.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin