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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by wccrawford on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:34AM (#41828370)
A one week ban on the first message is clearly gatekeeping. What a bunch of jerks. A 1 hour ban would have been a lot more appropriate, and escalate from there if the person can't follow the rules.

Don't even get me started about how dumb rule 2 is, though. And rule 3 doesn't even work for normal English as many things are abbreviated, e.g. this example.

And of course, you didn't greet and wait, you just put a pleasantry in the same message. Jeez.

I'm 100% sure I'd never have gone back after that rude ban.

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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by GeoAtreides on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:45AM (#41828469)
"I'm 100% sure I'd never have gone back after that rude ban."

upon saying this, the young apprentice was enlightened

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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by luckylion on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:40PM (#41829424)
> And of course, you didn't greet and wait, you just put a pleasantry in the same message. Jeez.

I'm pretty sure that "rule" was more aimed towards "just ask your question" rather than "greet, make smalltalk, then ask your question".

I have similar rules, though I don't communicate them as aggressively, and don't ban people for breaking them, I just don't reply to greetings coming from people I know aren't looking to talk to me to ask me how I've been. It's a lot easier if you send the question you have instead of sending "Hi, how are you?" and then wait for 3 minutes to type out your question.

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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by wccrawford on Monday October 14, 2024 @11:47AM (#41838622)
He did send the question. In the same message. It's just that he was polite about it. He didn't send a greeting and wait for a response before continuing.
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Re:Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on ... by chrsig on Monday October 14, 2024 @12:22PM (#41839016)
> I just don't reply to greetings coming from people I know aren't looking to talk to me to ask me how I've been.

Yep, it's in there with "please use the public channel rather than DMs".

Some nettiquite, please.

Of course, in the process of typing out their question, they usually find the answer on their own.

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