How to Communicate When Trust Is Low Without Digging Yourself into a Deeper Hole

Re:How to Communicate When Trust Is Low Without Digging Your... by aizatto on Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:47PM (#37170239)

I use "communication snippets" or "fillers"

for example

> Person A: “Hey, do you have any idea why this number is low? It’s a mystery … nobody I’ve talked to yet seems to know.”

is really long

I just say

> curious; why is that number low?

other prefixes I use are:

1. adding to the discussion

2. for discussion

3. low pri, no need to respond

4. neutral

5. nonactionable

6. sharing opinion

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Re:How to Communicate When Trust Is Low Without Digging Your... by enasterosophes on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:07PM (#37170359)

Not a criticism: this reminds me of Elcor speech in the Mass Effect trilogy, eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1PKFo1fYCA

"Plainly, we discovered our vocal expression was not enough to convey the feelings of our conversations to other species."

I never noticed the analogy before between Elcor and written/online communication. Now I'm wondering if it was intended by the game's writers.

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Re:How to Communicate When Trust Is Low Without Digging Your... by translucyd on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:15PM (#37170397)

Amazing! It seams so the devs were thinking of this very idea.

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Re:How to Communicate When Trust Is Low Without Digging Your... by Cthulhu_ on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:39AM (#37172847)

There was a thread not long ago about semantic communication (I presume in code reviews) that touched on this same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37118098

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Re:How to Communicate When Trust Is Low Without Digging Your... by IggleSniggle on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:24AM (#37174195)

Is there a way to get to this without signing up for yet another service?

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