Oh, now I see that what I wrote is a bit off what I intended, sorry. I was mainly explaining that this was my way of showing conformity to (how I interpret) The Way Things Work Here, not that one should do that to achieve higher status or that I think that status in EA is very important to achieve.
As you say, and for the same reasons, I agree that it is very helpful for people to read up on similar EA content. However, I am not sure how much is it important for people to also link to relevant sources and explain the connections, which is more what I was going for.
Makes sense—“The Way Things Work” still feels a little too “official”, but I agree that doing background reading is helpful and recommended (I like the list of recommendations here)
Linking is important when you cite someone’s work and can be a useful way to avoid having to write a lot of stuff yourself, but if it flows better to write up your own explanation of some common concept, I don’t see a problem with that.
hmm I was using “The Way Things Work Here” sarcastically (I think in a similar tone to how I was addressing status in the previous comment). So I’m taking away that in the internet no one know that you are a troll, or something like that 😊
I took your meaning to be somewhat sarcastic, but wanted to clarify for anyone else who might stumble across the conversation. I try to keep my meaning fairly literal on the Forum, in part for the large number of readers for whom English isn’t their first language.
Oh, now I see that what I wrote is a bit off what I intended, sorry. I was mainly explaining that this was my way of showing conformity to (how I interpret) The Way Things Work Here, not that one should do that to achieve higher status or that I think that status in EA is very important to achieve.
As you say, and for the same reasons, I agree that it is very helpful for people to read up on similar EA content. However, I am not sure how much is it important for people to also link to relevant sources and explain the connections, which is more what I was going for.
Makes sense—“The Way Things Work” still feels a little too “official”, but I agree that doing background reading is helpful and recommended (I like the list of recommendations here)
Linking is important when you cite someone’s work and can be a useful way to avoid having to write a lot of stuff yourself, but if it flows better to write up your own explanation of some common concept, I don’t see a problem with that.
hmm I was using “The Way Things Work Here” sarcastically (I think in a similar tone to how I was addressing status in the previous comment). So I’m taking away that in the internet no one know that you are a troll, or something like that 😊
I appreciate the clarifications.
I took your meaning to be somewhat sarcastic, but wanted to clarify for anyone else who might stumble across the conversation. I try to keep my meaning fairly literal on the Forum, in part for the large number of readers for whom English isn’t their first language.