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Please stop with the clickbait thread titles

#21
LBS-bass said:
Actually I was gone for about two weeks, which was about the time I needed to rest my hand. I did pop in now and then to say hello, as I also said I would, since a few people asked me to.

I'm thinking maybe people whose online world is limited to here might not be so familiar with some of these internet conventions but "It's not an airport, no need to announce your departure" is the common response on every Facebook group when someone announces they are angry and leaving a group there. There are dozens of memes with that saying and pictures of airplanes :)
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Farcebook? Farcebook Groups? Say no more...;)
 
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#23
LBS-bass said:
Yep. I don't spend much time there lately, either. But it's darned near impossible in today's world to network with club owners unless you have a Facebook page and can create and promote events through them. Necessary evil for many of us.
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Around here that no longer seems to be true, but I hear you. Gotta do what you gotta do.

Glad you're healing or at least on the way, hope you can avoid the surgical options. I have a number of friends who've dealt with that or a few other common forearm and hand issues that plague musicians, and I rejected hand surgery myself many many years ago and still feel that was the best call in my particular situation.
 
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LBS-bass said:
And then sometimes we just assume that most people have been around the internet long enough to know what's meant by certain phrases. Maybe we're wrong about that. "It's not an airport" has been around for years as a retort to dramatic online exits. When I started that thread about my temporary hiatus it never occurred to me that someone on the internet would not know what that meant.
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I've never heard that phrase.

This type of stuff is an issue, though. Acronyms (personal pet peeve in general - unless it's physically not viable, just type it out, or at least use the full phrase as a reference before using the acronym), awkward phrases, outmoded idioms, and the like. It happens on internet forums, but it also happens a lot in my workplace (I'm a software engineer, and I swear, the language that everyone uses in my company is ridiculous). But it's more than that - it's all referential, and not everyone shares the same references or context; as we begin to communicate with more and more people across the world, this becomes a bigger issue. I feel as though there needs to be some resurgence of awareness in this area across the board. There's a reason that business writing, technical writing, and legal writing is the way it is - it's for clarity. I'd love to see more of that everywhere.

Clickbait titles are just a symptom of this. I don't think it's nefarious, I think it's just people assuming that other people will understand their context when that is not at all a given. It just requires an increase in personal awareness.
 
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juggahnaught said:
I think it's just people assuming that other people will understand their context when that is not at all a given. It just requires an increase in personal awareness.
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There are certain assumptions we can't avoid. For example, this discussion assumes you and I and everyone reading has a reasonable grasp of the English language. It's a reasonable assumption because people on here wouldn't be here if they couldn't.

It's not necessary to communicate with everyone who is passing by all the time. If you're using a phrase that, for example, your own generation used frequently, you're probably not worried if someone in another generation doesn't get it because you're probably not really addressing them. I don't think you can avoid segmenting speech altogether. Best to just scroll by the stuff that doesn't pique your interest.
 

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