[pct-l] Bicycle Usage Proposal

[Simon Porter]

Ain't that the truth, we all need to wind in the necks and start getting along. Unfortunately this is always the problem with communication that is not face to face, it is open to wrong interpretation.

I know it is a very simple notion, but mellow is the way forward!!
 
> From: gwtmp01 at mac.com
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:47:10 -0400
> To: gmushial at gmdr.com
> CC: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bicycle Usage Proposal
> 
> 
> On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:14 PM, greg mushial wrote:
> > Sorry: but :-) means that you'd be happy to de exactly what you 
> > said - to
> > promote it where you can... (ie, picking a fight, posting such on a 
> > hiker's
> > board), on the otherhand, if you had used ;-) (a wink) then you 
> > would
> > have been understood, and in all likelyhood would not have provoked 
> > the
> > responses you got (I know I wouldn't have posted, but I don't speak 
> > for
> > others).
> 
> It doesn't surprise me to find that different people interpret emoticons
> differently. The distinction that you authoritatively declare doesn't
> really exist in my mind.
> 
> A smiley has been an indicator for satire, jest, and joking, for as 
> long as
> I can remember seeing it and using it. For me that goes back 27 years to
> just a year after the smiley was coined in 1982.
> 
> Satire, even when done in person with all the associated body 
> language, can
> be overlooked or misinterpreted. You have to be doubly-careful with
> textual communication.
> 
> Satire can also be used to cover up a faux pas and so someone
> later claiming to be satirical doesn't necessarily have to be taken at
> face value.
> 
> As I said previously, we would all be better off if we ratcheted down 
> the
> rhetoric a notch or two and were a little more generous in our 
> assumptions
> of other people's motivations.
> 
> With regard to the hiker/biker wars in certain areas. It seems to me 
> that
> a small minority of bad actors (probably on both sides) have 
> succeeded in
> poisoning the sense of community on those trails. It really doesn't 
> take
> a lot of miscreants in a community for this to happen.
> 
> Radar
> 
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