Timeline for “computer enthusiasts” is not a technical or administrative term and should be rewritten or dropped [closed]
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| Feb 23 at 18:15 | comment | added | Ramhound | enthusiast - A noun, is “a person who is very interested in a particular activity or subject”, which describes myself a computer enthusiast perfectly. | |
| Feb 23 at 17:50 | comment | added | AlMa1r | @Ramhound I completely agree that we probably don't want to describe our community as users with addictions (even if some or many of the users are). | |
| Feb 23 at 17:05 | comment | added | Ramhound | Computer Addiction is a serious problem, I am not sure we want to describe our community, as users with addictions. | |
| Feb 23 at 16:49 | comment | added | AlMa1r | @Ramhound This “we” is a standard way to involve the reader into discussion. Of course you may agree or disagree with certain parts of the text; no questions here. As for your “don't make any suggestions”, you're wrong, strictly speaking: one suggestion is stated, namely, “computer addict”. At the same time, I hope this community can come up with a better one. Of course, if you (here I intentionally depart from “we”) folks are really not addicts. | |
| Feb 23 at 15:55 | comment | added | Ramhound | @AlMa1r - “We = the author and the reader.” - But only you are asking, as the reader, I don’t agree. You suggest we should replace the phrase but don’t make any suggestions. | |
| Feb 23 at 15:18 | answer | added | Kamil Maciorowski | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 23 at 15:08 | comment | added | bertieb | It was a response to your last sentence in light of the content of your Q. If you don't like it, think it was misinterpreted, wrong or stupid or emotional or imaginative or whatever other attributes you think are negative- fine, you can decide that. What you you don't get to decide my intentions. You have your answer, do with it what you will | |
| Feb 23 at 14:03 | comment | added | AlMa1r | @bertieb Concerning “my comment was a literal response to your Q's last sentence” No, it was not. You intentionally misinterpreted my last sentence, which clearly referred to the last paragraph. By the way, just a tiny hint here: since you started to take things literally, as you wrote, you should probably also take the site name superuser.com literally. Just so as not to contradict your very self. | |
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| Feb 23 at 3:10 | history | edited | AlMa1r | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23 at 3:04 | comment | added | AlMa1r | @Robotnik We write American English here, and not British English, so let's take Merriam-Webster (instead of Cambridge). In merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enthusiast, we see, “a person filled with enthusiasm: such as (a) one who is ardently attached to a cause, object, or pursuit (b) one who tends to become ardently absorbed in an interest”. Here, nothing is said about being involved. | |
| Feb 23 at 2:59 | history | edited | AlMa1r | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23 at 0:21 | comment | added | Robotnik | Enthusiast - " person who is very interested in and involved with a particular subject or activity". Emphasis mine. You've cherry picked the enthusiasm part of the definition and ignored the part about active involvement in the topic.. | |
| Feb 23 at 0:04 | history | edited | Robotnik |
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| Feb 22 at 22:41 | answer | added | bertieb | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 22 at 22:22 | comment | added | bertieb | "Or am I wrong?" from what you've said in chat, you absolutely are wrong on the meaning of 'superuser' and 'enthusiast' | |
| Feb 22 at 22:16 | history | edited | AlMa1r | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 22 at 22:10 | comment | added | AlMa1r | @Gantendo We = the author and the reader. | |
| Feb 22 at 16:35 | comment | added | user1482432 |
we ask to either who is "we"? Is the account AlMa1r used by multiple people?
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| Feb 22 at 15:43 | history | edited | AlMa1r | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 22 at 15:23 | history | asked | AlMa1r | CC BY-SA 4.0 |