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I understand that I guess but I asked what would have improved it. It was a valid if brief question. Repeating would not have improved it. Chit chat would not have improved it, objectively speaking. It was a casual question perhaps better suited for the CB but I still found it interesting—I expected the answer to not be 5.8—and devoid of offense. I was surprised that anyone took same.

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Re^6: Since when did "\N{U+5678}" work as an alternative to "\x{5678}"? -- good habits
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 23, 2017 at 16:44 UTC
    My 2 cents

    The post could be improved in many ways

    • Prior to Hauke 's reply I had no clue about the context.
    • I didn't know what "n/t" is supposed to mean (neither did Hauke nor you)
    So

    • I messaged him without reaction.
    • He prefers blunt exchanges
    • He got links to the house rules.
    > I understand that I guess but I asked what would have improved it.

    He could have

    • provided context like "unicode notation" for the unwary
    • provided a link to relevant POD describing the feature
    • shown us what he already tried to avoid duplicity

    Finally Ikegami is right, it's the post before the title, the title is just narrowing the subject.

    At least he could have said something like,

    • "the title says it already. ..."
    Finally
    • it's not up to us to compensate laziness

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      I did suggest I knew what n/t means and I think I'm right. :P Plenty of posts with 8 paragraphs are less clear but don't get downvoted or complaints. I agree it's not up to us to compensate laziness. That includes it in readers. My view: the generally negative reaction, and its defense, is a strange kind of conservative, parochial, pedantry.

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        > Plenty of posts with 8 paragraphs are less clear

        They get reactions like "could you be clearer".

        But I don't write a paragraph to answer "n/t".

        "Not rewarding laziness" is like "not feeding trolls".

        > but don't get downvoted or complaints.

        Knowing him for some years now, I doubt he cares. :)

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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