10-18-2014, 08:57 AM
Well said as usual, Carey.
No one needs to click on a link, but a link tells us there is a larger conversation and is not just a source citation.
You know, if everyone is sitting in a room talking, we all know who said what. If someone pulls out a book or opens a magazine in a face to face group, we all know where that paragraph he reads comes from. If someone says "oh I think someone said the moon is made of green cheese" we are clear that this piece of info might need some source before we take it as gospel. We have context when we are all in a room face to face.
These "rules" are a way to have a conversation in a virtual room and keep things in context. Otherwise it becomes chaotic where the facts, info, interpretations come from. It's also a way of giving people credit for what they create in writing and the work they have done. Much of what we create isn't worth too much to anyone, but some of it is.
To me it makes sense to share info along with "I got the info here."
But hey, forty years ago I was in the group that would sit in a room and someone would spout any kind of nonsense while passing a doobie around and we would all say, far out man.
Age + school + clear head = linksalot? [8D]
Kathy
No one needs to click on a link, but a link tells us there is a larger conversation and is not just a source citation.
You know, if everyone is sitting in a room talking, we all know who said what. If someone pulls out a book or opens a magazine in a face to face group, we all know where that paragraph he reads comes from. If someone says "oh I think someone said the moon is made of green cheese" we are clear that this piece of info might need some source before we take it as gospel. We have context when we are all in a room face to face.
These "rules" are a way to have a conversation in a virtual room and keep things in context. Otherwise it becomes chaotic where the facts, info, interpretations come from. It's also a way of giving people credit for what they create in writing and the work they have done. Much of what we create isn't worth too much to anyone, but some of it is.
To me it makes sense to share info along with "I got the info here."
But hey, forty years ago I was in the group that would sit in a room and someone would spout any kind of nonsense while passing a doobie around and we would all say, far out man.
Age + school + clear head = linksalot? [8D]
Kathy