I find this kind of casual age-based dismissal unfortunately common in the retrocomputing community…
I apologize for possibly misreading what you wrote, but I don’t really know what you’re trying to say to me.
So allow me to clarify what I said and emphasize the point I was and still am trying to make. It will be a small distraction to this thread to do that, but based on what you wrote, I feel it necessary to do that now.
If your chosen word “casual” is defined as being “flippant,” then that doesn’t describe my previous post because I thought it out a lot before I even wrote it. I wrote my words deliberately, thoughtfully, and factually based in my experience with others.
CORE ISSUE
I don’t like it when people complain that I write too much.
It happens all too often, and unfortunately, by the same age groups. I want it to stop, but I’m powerless to change it.
Those who complain about the length of what I write are dismissive of me. So it’s rather odd that I would be accused of being dismissive of those who are dismissive of me.
It’s really that simple.
Regardless of your age, don’t complain about the length of what I write, and we can get along just fine.
That’s especially true these days when people use things like “TL;DR”.
I deliberately write a certain amount of text in order to avoid a long back-and-forth that could take days. I try to write everything necessary at the beginning so people who respond have all the facts. Again, it’s that simple.
The fellow on Reddit clearly didn’t read everything I wrote, he basically admitted as much, and he didn’t even try to answer both of my questions as a result. And although you could argue that pretty much anybody could act the same way, in my experience, the people who do that the most, tend to be the younger ones, such as my son and daughter who are 19 and 22 respectively. It’s not like I’m coming from an uninformed position here. Nor am I dismissive of people younger than myself when they act appropriately. And by acting appropriately, I don’t mean acting exactly like me. I mean don’t complain about the length of what someone writes.
And it’s not like I’m discriminating against anyone either. Act right, and everyone will love you, regardless of age. Act less than right, and you’re going to have your detractors.
So why did I even mentioned the age of that fellow on Reddit? Because it’s what I experience all the time. It’s what I experience from my kids from time to time. People who are in certain age groups need to try harder to get beyond the TLDR mentality. It’s pervasive these days.
Furthermore, as I said in my earlier post, even I was young once and still remember how I thought and felt at that time. It was at that point in my life that I learned how to write more to avoid long and drawn out discussions that often happen because you didn’t write enough to begin with.
What’s most amusing about all this is that I had to write a lot of text just now in order to explain myself and I really shouldn’t have had to.
I don’t complain when somebody writes a lot of text because I usually read it and appreciate it. All I want is others to do the same for me. And if you’re a younger person and do that, I have all the more respect for you because you are bucking the trend of extreme brevity.
But I can’t use that until I have tried to close the crack with the solvent, and after that finely sand off the backs or the ribs somehow to they are perfectly fat and level to be solvent-welded to this 27x10 piece I just cut out.
