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bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
From: |
Po Lu |
Subject: |
bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 10:04:51 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> While I do not object jokes per se, I do note that for a person outside
> USA context or, sometimes, for a person inside USA context, jokes in the
> listed section are simply distracting from understanding the described
> topic.
I am not American, yet I understand most of the jokes in the Gnus
manual.
> 3.15 Exiting Gnus has
>
> Note:
>
> Miss Lisa Cannifax, while sitting in English class, felt her feet
> go numbly heavy and herself fall into a hazy trance as the boy
> sitting behind her drew repeated lines with his pencil across the
> back of her plastic chair.
>
> I am not sure if it is a joke. I only feel confused about what
> information this note is trying to convey. Also, at least one other user
> find this section insulting.
>
> Further, the last sentence in
>
> ‘z’
> Suspend Gnus (‘gnus-group-suspend’). This doesn’t really exit
> Gnus, but it kills all buffers except the Group buffer. I’m not
> sure why this is a gain, but then who am I to judge?
>
> is implying what? Is it just a joke? Or is it saying that the function
> is useless? Discouraged? I am confused.
>
> 3.16 Group Topics
>
> If you read lots and lots of groups, it might be convenient to group
> them hierarchically according to topics. You put your Emacs groups over
> here, your sex groups over there, and the rest (what, two groups or so?)
> you put in some misc section that you never bother with anyway. You can
> even group the Emacs sex groups as a sub-topic to either the Emacs
> groups or the sex groups—or both! Go wild!
>
> Forgetting about trying to joke around the word sex (the topic, often
> negatively received by, at least, some Muslim users), I simply feel
> disoriented while trying to read this paragraph. I can understand the
> first sentence. Is the rest of the paragraph a joke? Or are there useful
> pieces of information coded inside?
I think this joke is fairly obvious for anyone who has tried to browse a
public news server.
> After reading this info section, I feel that the amount of attempted
> jokes is larger than the amount of useful information. This is
> distracting (even though I do not mind an occasional joke, personally)
>
> 8 Scoring has
>
> 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!
>
> For me, this paragraph is meaningless. For US users, it is some kind of
> word play around sexual behavior, I guess. At least some users find "we
> .. like scoring better than killing" uncomfortable. I object jokes that
> make people feel uncomfortable.
>
> Also, I fail to understand what "kill files" really refers to here. Also
> some USA-specific context? Or is it Emacs killing concept? Deleting
> files on file system?
Gnus is a news reader. Naturally, the indended audience of the jokes in
its manual are those who read net news. Since you don't know what a
kill or a (Gnus-specific) score file is, you can disregard that
paragraph.
The internet is for adults, not silly folk who cry about everything they
don't understand.
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