I generally dislike people writing one sentence a message in Slack or any other messaging app, especially when they’re pushing out messages rapidly, constantly pings my phone. But I think I like the idea of one question per message, allowing the responder to answer it in a thread.
@lmika I can never decide myself what I like more. And in therory the answer in thread is nice, but it never worked out for me as we then start dicussing other stuff in the thread. And it is hard getting the discussion to the right place.
@lmika I’ve never understood why some people do that. Sometimes I see like 5 new messages in my message app, all from the same person in a row, and it could all easily have been said in one message.
@birming Yeah, me neither. I can understand it if it’s people are in a hurry (I tend to do likewise) but I know a few people who do it habitually, and it’s never fun conversing with them.
@V_ I generally like threads as the topic of conversation can change on a dime, and I find it easier to keep track on what topic we were talking about using threads. But yeah, it might just be because of the people I use Slack with, so 🤷. Whatever works, I guess.
@numericcitizen @lmika @birming I don’t think it’s rude, but I don’t do it. I think it’s a combo of habits, norming, technology limitations, and processing style. Message boards and email encouraged complete multi sentence post creation. Twitter esp with early character limits forced short separate posts.
Real-time interaction was non-existent for the majority of the Internet, but now short bits can be important as a collective conversation evolves in near real time.
