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.
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.