Shooting the breeze with Breezie

I found this article over at http://blog-op.com/, it contains some very good advice that we all could benefit from.

* Use reasonable English grammar. Even if you don’t
speak English as your first language, you can at least obey some basic English conventions, like capitalization and punctuation. Amazingly,
it is usually English-speakers who are the worst at this.
* If you have a lot to say, break it up into
paragraphs. One giant paragraph is annoying.
* Actually read what you’ve responded to. It’s amazing how much misreading or skimming of a post people do before responding.
Closely read the post to see if your criticism or concern has already been addressed.
* Be reasonable when what you are responding to is
reasonable. Respond to reasonable discussions reasonably. Ignore unreasonable discussions. (This is hard.)
* Participate in the discussion. If you only post with
problems or to complain and never contribute solutions or interesting commentary, you don’t have much credibility.
* Don’t comment anonymously. If you believe what you are saying, be an adult and put your name on it. If you are too cowardly to leave your name, you probably shouldn’t be commenting.

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