GNOME releases version 44

Posted Apr 21, 2023 12:29 UTC (Fri) by xecycle (subscriber, #140261)
In reply to: GNOME releases version 44 by atnot
Parent article: GNOME releases version 44

Not necessarily guest articles, Jake sometimes write in this style, too. I frequently feel those a bit hard to read, but I’m not a native speaker so I thought it was my fault. Maybe not? My feeling is that such long quotes are usually written in a style different from the article itself, or maybe based on some context not conveyed in the article.

GNOME releases version 44

Posted Apr 21, 2023 13:32 UTC (Fri) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

This thread has good feedback for me and other authors. We certainly do not want articles to be hard to read or to seem (or be) unbalanced. Will try to keep all of that in mind going forward.

thanks,

jake

GNOME releases version 44

Posted Apr 21, 2023 15:51 UTC (Fri) by atnot (subscriber, #124910) [Link]

> My feeling is that such long quotes are usually written in a style different from the article itself, or maybe based on some context not conveyed in the article

Yes, I think this is very true. Quotations can be great, but they do always bring their own style, structure and motives that can clash with the authors. This is probably especially true of internet forum commenters, who are generally more concerned with lobbying for someone to fix their favorite nits than high quality writing. I think reproducing those comments verbatim* is always going to risk the article becoming more corrosive than intended.

* as opposed to something like "[the panel was redesigned], however users who find it too easy to accidentally deactivate bluetooth while using a bluetooth mouse will have to wait a little longer [link to comment]" that paraphrases the lobbying into a more compact factual statement about the release?