[wp-hackers] A n00b's rough road

[Chris Williams]

Stephen and JD are exactly right.

There is also the fact that your post here was dramatically TL;DR.  Like 6-10X too long.

Anywhere you go, ask a question -> get an answer.  Post a novel -> get critiqued on style points.




On 2/5/16, 8:46 AM, "wp-hackers on behalf of Stephen Rider" <wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com on behalf of wp-hackers at striderweb.com> wrote:

>Hi — 
>
>I didn’t mean “political” in a literal sense, but in the sense that your question was soliciting highly subjective opinion. Stack Exchange is for (reasonably) objective technical questions, not debates.  I totally see the point of raising the question, but StackExchange is not the proper place to raise it.  That’s why they got after you.
>
>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 7:43 AM, J.D. Grimes <jdg at codesymphony.co> wrote:
>> I think the best way to report this would be to open an issue on GitHub where the 2016 theme was developed: https://github.com/WordPress/twentysixteen
>
>
>This is a better idea.
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>-- 
>Stephen Rider
>
>wp-hackers at striderweb.com
>http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia
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>
>
>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:17 AM, C.J.S. Hayward <cjsh at cjshayward.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm a bit confused by the claim I was advancing religious or philosophical
>> positions. I was writing more out of puzzlement that a basic usability
>> finding, that visited and unvisited links should at least be different
>> colors (mentioned in a mainstream usability venue in 1996 and not clear
>> then; reiterated with slight relaxation of a strict hardliner position in
>> 2011, and also repeated by another cardinally important author in 2014),
>> and this is not an obscure detail, but *important to Jakob Nielsen enough
>> to consistently make a top 10 list*...
>> 
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