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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 336254" data-attributes="member: 22">When I get an &quot;informative&quot; alert, I find I always say the word out loud in a robotic voice in the same way K9 used to say &quot;affirmative&quot; on Doctor Who.[MEDIA=youtube]HWZoNe-oKJw[/MEDIA]I don&#039;t like to think too deeply about the way I use the alert function. I just want it to be an instinctive reaction. Several years ago, I received a private message from a poster who hasn&#039;t been around for a long, long time asking why I hated her, her rationale for that being I hadn&#039;t &quot;liked&quot; a sufficient amount of her posts (if any). The irony was that I hadn&#039;t really considered how I felt about her until then, but now she&#039;d made me self-conscious about how I &quot;reacted&quot; to posts and so I decided I did hate her after all.I&#039;ve nothing really useful to add. I think the functions can be used passive-aggressively and/or sarcastically, but it can be hard to be certain exactly when it&#039;s happening and you can easily drive yourself mad trying to pinpoint someone&#039;s true intentions. I&#039;ve no wish to relive the horribleness of the DALLAS TNT era, although I did learn a lot from it. It&#039;s difficult - communication all boils down to nuance and and nuance is notoriously tricky to&nbsp; convey on the internet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 336254, member: 22"] When I get an "informative" alert, I find I always say the word out loud in a robotic voice in the same way K9 used to say "affirmative" on Doctor Who. [MEDIA=youtube]HWZoNe-oKJw[/MEDIA] I don't like to think too deeply about the way I use the alert function. I just want it to be an instinctive reaction. Several years ago, I received a private message from a poster who hasn't been around for a long, long time asking why I hated her, her rationale for that being I hadn't "liked" a sufficient amount of her posts (if any). The irony was that I hadn't really considered how I felt about her until then, but now she'd made me self-conscious about how I "reacted" to posts and so I decided I [I]did[/I] hate her after all. I've nothing really useful to add. I think the functions can be used passive-aggressively and/or sarcastically, but it can be hard to be certain exactly when it's happening and you can easily drive yourself mad trying to pinpoint someone's true intentions. I've no wish to relive the horribleness of the DALLAS TNT era, although I did learn a lot from it. It's difficult - communication all boils down to nuance and and nuance is notoriously tricky to convey on the internet. [/QUOTE]

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