Re:Written communication is remote work super power
by abalashov on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:07AM
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It's probably a question of personality, custom and habit, but I tend to write like I speak (some would say "no, you speak like you write" :-) in any forum, including Slack, sometimes in defiance of the cultural norms of the audience.
It leads to something of a reputation for verbosity, but never the accusation of ambiguity or excessive terseness. I don't think anyone's ever said to me, "What did you mean by that two-word reply?"
Re:Written communication is remote work super power
by Leherenn on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:53AM
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It can be quite useful when replying to each point though, you can quote each one independently since they're not merged into one big blob of text.
Not saying it's impossible otherwise of course, just slightly more convenient.
For me, the tendency of slack to let users write very short sentences/phrases is the issue. Etiquette for slack allows very IM like messages, whereas Emails are generally required to be more verbose.