[bksvol-discuss] Re: Domo Arregato Mister Robotto?
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:05:43 -0600
<lol> Roger. As a former computer programmer I've met a lot of rude binary bits.
However, Larry's point is quite correct. A minor "your operation was
successful, press ok to return to the check out page"" comment would do just
fine.
Then, of course, there are the esthetics of the whole thing. I'll bet if we
were the department of education instead of mere volunteers we would get a
hardy "thank you", and maybe even a "praise the Lord" for our efforts. But
that's just speculation on my part.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:42 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Domo Arregato Mister Robotto?
I really can't see what the big deal is about getting a computer generated
thank you. I cannot possibly count the times I have done favors for people in
person without getting a thank you and without giving it a thought. I am
certainly not going to get upset over an unthinking computer neglecting to
perform the ritual. As I said, confirmation that I succeeded in what I was
trying to do is reassuring, but there are a lot of ways to do that. Some sites
use thank you and some sites use congratulations. Mission accomplished would do
just fine. Your action is confirmed would be just fine. Your work has been
saved would be just fine. Even though the first time it was a bit
disconcerting, now that I know that being returned to my checked out list means
that I was successful, that is okay too. It would be better to have an explicit
confirmation, but there is some advantage to being able to skip that and get on
with whatever else one has to do. Miss Manners said that one of the greatest
rudenesses is to accuse someone else of being rude. I am not sure I agree with
that, but I kind of wonder what she would say about accusing a bunch of binary
digits of being rude.
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