The tone you perceived is not the tone I have emitted.
I asked two simple questions, and having those answered, I will
be able to answer as per the monastery guidelines, i.e. provide
hopefully helpful advice.
Furthermore, I did give advice on where to look for improving
s.o. asking skills.
What exactly do you deem unfriendly?
regards,
--shmem
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Commenting on tone is considered bad form.
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I disagree. I think that commenting on tone is likely to earn negative XP, but I believe that it is still an important way that the monastery self-corrects. Personally, I appreciate it (once I have had time to regain a cool head) when people (especially people I respect or trust) communicate to me that my tone was offensive in some way.
I don't think that membership in pedagogues or even gods places a person somehow above the need to be corrected when they are rude.
Looking at shmem's post, and taking it in context with other posts by shmem, I think that jzb was wrong in interpreting it as having an unfriendly tone, but that is just my opinion.
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Which is more necessary, discussing tone or staying on topic?
For tone, use /msg
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