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08/18/06, 10:00 PM
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Reading comprehension
Do any other posters recogonize a problem here?
It seems that 90% of those responding to posts do not understand what they are responding too. I see so many threads distracted by multitudes of posters who have either..........
:A Not read the whole post, or.............
:B Can't comprehend what was said in the post.
I hate to be the internet police, but is it too much to expect basic comprehension and logic in our responses?
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08/18/06, 10:05 PM
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Sometimes on the internet it is hard to get accross what you are saying or how you are saying it. I think most of the time people are doing the best they can. It's not the best way to communicate but the internet opens up so much information and help from people I would have never been able to "talk" with that it is worth the hassle.
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08/18/06, 10:06 PM
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It's much easier and less stressful if you think of this site as you would a small country community.  You'll have the college professors and then there's the residents who can't figure out a simple recipe or construction sheet. It's very muchthe same here when you get responses to a thread; some members will immediately 'get it' and others, well 3 pages later and they're still arguing about something totally off topic.  That's not meant as a put down; it's just basic logic that on a site with over 13000 members, you will find some with comprehension difficulties.
Glean the useful info and just let the rest slide; some things are harder to change than to ignore. 
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Originally Posted by tinknal
Do any other posters recogonize a problem here?
It seems that 90% of those responding to posts do not understand what they are responding too. I see so many threads distracted by multitudes of posters who have either..........
:A Not read the whole post, or.............
:B Can't comprehend what was said in the post.
I hate to be the internet police, but is it too much to expect basic comprehension and logic in our responses?
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08/18/06, 10:08 PM
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I don't mind the police. I think our local cops do a good job, sorry yours aren't too good. Maybe you can talk to your county sheriff?
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08/18/06, 10:09 PM
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Tink -
I'd post what I'm thinking about manners some people use on the internet and how they cleverly disguise an insult, but then I'd have to have Cabin come MOD this post.
Angie
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08/18/06, 10:19 PM
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In communication there's both the sender and the receiver.
They both must take responsibility for communicating clearly.
basic communication 101...
You know Tink, if you want a specific topic response, maybe you should request that we who answer, stay directly on topic...
actually, sometimes it's cool when there's a drift. If it's interesting - I read on, of not- I skip it.
"You have the power"... 
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08/18/06, 10:38 PM
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What was this thread about?
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08/18/06, 10:42 PM
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I saw a big poster today. It was white with hot pink lettering, I think it was advertising night crawlers but the letters were real hard to read with those colors. Thanks for bringing it up.
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08/18/06, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Wolf mom
In communication there's both the sender and the receiver.
They both must take responsibility for communicating clearly.
basic communication 101...
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Yes ..I was thinking the same thing.
Sometimes the 'sender' fails to make their points clear enough for the majority of 'receivers' to comprehend.
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08/18/06, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by AngieM2
Tink -
I'd post what I'm thinking about manners some people use on the internet and how they cleverly disguise an insult, but then I'd have to have Cabin come MOD this post.
Angie
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Actually, I was thinking something more along this line.
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08/18/06, 11:04 PM
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You have to remember that more people in the USA know the name of the 3 stooges than the name of the 3 branches of the federal government. 
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08/18/06, 11:11 PM
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how much are those chickens?
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08/18/06, 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Wolf mom
You know Tink, if you want a specific topic response, maybe you should request that we who answer, stay directly on topic...
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Or just answer the question................lol
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08/19/06, 01:13 AM
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Apparently it is.
Many posts main value is entertainment.
Some of the answers can be quite entertaining even though they don't come close to the original question. If we don't like an answer it's simple to ignor it.
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08/19/06, 03:37 AM
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In Remembrance
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I know what you mean.
I know what you mean.
As an example someone will post saying, "I'm from Maine and the heat is bothering me this summer." How do I grow peas in the hotter weather?"
The next poster will start off with, "I don't know where you live, but----
They look but they don't see.
You mention posters, now what kind of four poster bed was that?
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08/19/06, 06:14 AM
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You mention posters, now what kind of four poster bed was that?
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No no no...he was talking about a poster for the local fair. See? I was paying attention. (where's the duck and run smiley??)
There's more than reading comprehension in the problem in some cases. There are times I have to resist answering the question asked and instead answer the question I know the poster meant to ask.
Meloc, there are three chickens.
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08/19/06, 07:03 AM
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When I first began posting questions to the forum, it used to annoy me when folks didn't just answer the question, but also assume "If she had to ask THAT question, she must not know much about anything" and they put in some basic and insulting thing like "children don't really come from the stork, you know".
It was hard not to take it personally, until I realized that not everyone is at the same place in homesteading, and "my" thread is not for my eyes only. So what if they give more than I ask for. So what if it drifts a little.
I've gotten a lot of really interesting and useful tidbits from thread drift.
I'm also guilty of responding to a question before I've had enough coffee in the morning. When I look back at it later in the day I'm shocked with "what the heck was I talking about?"
Be thankful when people respond to your posts, even if the responses aren't what you hoped for, because a question that falls off the bottom of the page with no replies feels way worse.
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I don't have any underwear on.
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08/19/06, 07:46 AM
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Lololololol
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08/19/06, 07:56 AM
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I think often it has to do with the context in which a question maybe ask.. For instance sometimes certain things maybe be called something different in different parts of the country.. Thus there maybe confusion.
I know I've been guilty of this.. There was recently a thread on "human sludge".. to me that means humanure, but in other parts of the country I guess it is whats left over after sewage has been through the treatment plant.
Then there is the blaten disreguard, or lack of reading the entire post.. Thats what really gets to me.
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