http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect_(term)
It is getting cold here, on the APS.
Actually, in the first go 'round, I got overwhelmed by
indifference rather than the cold.
I was in the middle of editing my OP, in the interest of compliance with new & improved policy, when I realized
I did not care enough about the thread to comply with point #3 described in:
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=25456.0I said to my self, "Aw, *expletive deleted*ck it." So, I in accord with both new policy and my indifference I invoked
ctrl-a, mashed
delete, then keyed in the least possible to express my newfound indifference(1).
I figured that if anyone was interested in discussing a topic, the thread title and the poster's commentary would be the hook. Any summary written by the poster would likely be ignored. I know
I would ignore such a summary and mash the link, instead.
Not to point fingers or anything, but some posters' keyboarding and sentence structure requires more effort than others. Reading the commentary (on the article content) while ignoring the summary (of the article content) is a reasonable course of action. The commentary tells me what the poster thinks about the topic, the summary tells me nothing I can't find at the original source (usually in the first sentence or paragraph).
(1) Brevity from me. Don't laugh, it can happen.