ORIGINAL: zgrssd
Poes Law applies to every text-only communication.
Expecting people to go through a posters entire posting history jsut to make sense of a single post, is no basis for communication.
"If you had known me for years" means "of course what I emitted was ambigious."
You're absolutely right that miscommunication is rife in online-only communication. For example, I was probably unclear in my own post because what I meant to convey was "Yeah there is zero chance this guy isn't trolling, whatever it might look like to others."
Though personally I thought it was kinda obvious the guy was taking the piss even before I thought I recognized him. Just look at that absurd array of emoticons!
To go off on an tangent, I have to say I'm getting a little tired of the "anyone who wants to change the logistics system is a simpleton" argument. I mean, zgrssd literally wrote the book on logistics (or at least the War Room posts explaining them), and the majority of people I've seen in favor of the pull system understand the underlying logistical model perfectly well, they're just not a fan of the tedium in manually messing with it. What purpose is served by indirectly calling anyone in favor of change an idiot?
For that matter, why is there still a debate? The situation is done and dusted. The new pull system is in, getting refined, and not going away, it's possible to turn it off and play manually just like before, the underlying logistical system is unchanged, nobody's lost anything and people have only gained. So why are we still arguing about this?
