[ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

[Julian Oliver]

..on or around Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:46:45PM +0200, Stéphane Marguet (Stemp) said:
> I'm sorry, I'm using Ubuntu's evolution and I just want to tell you :
> for ME it's better to top-post !
> 
> I don't even understand why someone will ask for bottom-post !
> 
> PS : it's not a troll, I just want to understand why you may ask for
> bottom post. I just don't get it. What I care is about the answer !
> And I want the answer to be on TOP.

in most (if not all) spoken and written natural language transactions,
first comes the question and then the answer. it's unintuitive for many -
myself included - for this to be reversed. 

whether strategic or accidental, a top-post is a perversion of sense;
what you might call a Rhetorical Answer. it produces a break in the
inheritence of meaning and as such it is innately destructive to the
evolution of the thread.

for these reasons - and regardless of intent - top-posts will most often
be interpreted as a selfish form of reciprocation.

cheers,

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