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bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
From: |
Ihor Radchenko |
Subject: |
bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:55:04 +0000 |
Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Please, do not use appeal to ridicule.
>
> But that's the point.
>
> Most people will find ridiculous that the following paragraph:
>
> 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!
>
> makes the subsequent four paragraphs describing score files less clear:
No, the first paragraph does not make the following paragraphs less
clear. My problem with this paragraph is different: if contains
technical information that is hard to understand without understanding
the joke.
> Asking us to delete every joke that someone finds confusing is not far
> from those lines, and is in fact a very slippery slope leading directly
> to that proposal.
I am not asking to delete every single joke. I am asking to change or
delete the jokes that impair ability of the manual to explain the
technical information. Note that I specifically listed concrete jokes in
the initial report.
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