Re^3: Automatic downvote

Well, I think, it depends on what I like vs. what someone else likes

What I like is surely what everyone likes...

Easy-to-read content with easy-to-understand questions, information or observations.

A solid block of text with no formatting fails the easy-to-read test. I'll leave others to decide if the content is easy to understand!

Personally, I try to ensure that my own questions and comments are well-formatted and easy to read. I attempt to use clear and relatively straightforward language as I realise that for many contributors here, English is not their first language. I attempt to add meaningful content to the discussions. At times this is difficult as many of the people here are vastly more knowledgeable than me. Most of all, I remember that the Monks who are helping me are doing so out of the goodness of their hearts and that their generosity is extremely valuable to me.

Strangely, the more effort I put into my posts, the more help I get from the Monastery, and the more my XP seems to go up...

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Re^4: Automatic downvote by kcott (Archbishop) on Mar 27, 2023 at 01:54 UTC
"What I like is surely what everyone likes..." In terms of structure and content of posts, I generally agree with what you've written; however, with regards to presentation, we all have personal preferences, which can be quite different. harangzsolt33 made specific reference^[#11151208] to "font size" to "70-character limit". In my response^[#11151212] I made general reference to Display Settings and included specific information about those two items. It would be over a decade since I set up my preferences, so I don't really recall exactly what I didn't like. Presumably, I was OK with my browser settings, so I've made no change to `<code>` block font sizes; I generally use a large screen, so I've increased the default 70-character limit via the Code Wrap Length setting; and, I clearly didn't like the rendering of some specific `<tt>` content, as my CSS includes: `tt.inlinecode > font[size="-1"] { font-family: monospace; font-size: 0.917em; }` [download] The point being that these are my preferences and do not affect any other user. harangzsolt33 has made use of `<font>` tags and `bgcolor` attributes to get the rendering he wants and doesn't seem to care that this does affect all other users. — Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: Automatic downvote
by kcott (Archbishop) on Mar 27, 2023 at 01:54 UTC

"What I like is surely what everyone likes..."

In terms of structure and content of posts, I generally agree with what you've written; however, with regards to presentation, we all have personal preferences, which can be quite different.

harangzsolt33 made specific reference^[#11151208] to "font size" to "70-character limit". In my response^[#11151212] I made general reference to Display Settings and included specific information about those two items.

It would be over a decade since I set up my preferences, so I don't really recall exactly what I didn't like. Presumably, I was OK with my browser settings, so I've made no change to <code> block font sizes; I generally use a large screen, so I've increased the default 70-character limit via the Code Wrap Length setting; and, I clearly didn't like the rendering of some specific <tt> content, as my CSS includes:

tt.inlinecode > font[size="-1"] {
    font-family:       monospace;
    font-size:         0.917em;
}
[download]

The point being that these are my preferences and do not affect any other user.

harangzsolt33 has made use of <font> tags and bgcolor attributes to get the rendering he wants and doesn't seem to care that this does affect all other users.

— Ken

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