[Product] [Screencast] Elliot Reads Critical Fallibilism Forum, 2023-03-08

Some notes from listening to this:

  • I should learn to avoid comma splices; I think I use these fairly often.
  • Improve quoting - because Discourse’s quoting allows you to expand the quote and see the full context I was being minimal with quoting, but it wouldn’t hurt to add an extra line to a quote if it was relevant context so a post could be more self contained. Particularly with quotes from longer posts, the highlighting is ok when you expand a quote but it doesn’t take you directly to the highlighted section so it’s not great to expect people to rely on that as they might still need to look around for the context.

I don’t like that you edited Justin’s post (17:50). Now I’m worried that you might start editing my posts because you don’t like how I say something. You could have replied with your way of rewriting it, or asked Justin about the edit first. It looks like you put words in his mouth and you didn’t note that you’re the one that edited it. Yes the edit history is there, but I don’t think people will normally check that to look for an administrator editing posts, I don’t want to have to start checking edit histories just in case you changed something. Is there some context to this action that I don’t know?