theres a style i see a lot
of complicating on slack
^ communicating
where they type everything line by line
like this
not much punctuation
hardly any capital letters
never use the edit feature to correct anything
just type another line with ^ and the word you meant
and everyone sees that "Stratoscope is typing" message
the entire time
it makes me crazy
I seem to be the odd man out in some Slack teams and channels. When I write something, even on Slack, I try to write it to be read. Sentences, paragraphs, punctuation, and grammar make things easier to read.
Of course I leave out the email-style "Hi Sally," intro and "Thanks, -Mike" closing, and keep it shorter and less formal.
If I'm writing more than a sentence or two, I'll sometimes type it into a separate text editor first, just so people won't have to see that "Mike is typing" the whole time. And so I don't accidentally hit Enter and send out my half-baked draft!
I also have to admit to a prejudice: when I see consistently sloppy writing from a programmer, I start to wonder what their code is like. Do they code in a way that's quick to write, or easy to read?
To be clear, by "sloppy" I don't mean the kinds of mistakes that can be expected and forgiven from a non-native speaker. And I don't mean the casual informality that is natural for the medium. I'm talking about the barely coherent style of writing I used at the top of this comment.
The line by line stream of thought seems lazy to me. It's distracting, hard to read, and doesn't feel respectful of the reader.
but maybe thats just me