Horological Meandering

ThomasM
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excellent comments and defining of the framework, thanks!

Hi, MKVC,

Well made points, and I agree with the ideas!

Regarding your last point about community commentary - I touched on this once or twice before, recently; in one case, it quickly went astray and really drew out lots of projections and unexplicated assumptions...interesting... - is there a distinction between gut level reactions and commentary, opinions, considered opinions, and experienced, educated opinions? And if so, is such a distinction important?

I remember when we (most participants on ThePuristS) took the time and effort to note, "imho" or something of the sort.

I also remember someone pointing out how silly and a waste of bandwidth that was - "all comments are opinions, and it's redundant and a waste of keystrokes to add that in posts"

I understand the thinking behind that comment, but I really strongly disagree as

a. I felt it was generalizing, inappropriately, from a specific, limited range of commentary

b. it failed to acknowledge the important (in my opinion) differences in context - of the intended nature of the comments; of the background of the commentator; etc. - for various comments.

Thanks,

TM

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