@Archimage I trust it as far as I can throw it—er, know it. 🧐꩜

@Archimage Or are we getting ourselves into trouble here with the tendency to turn verbs into nouns nouns into verbs?

[ edit, wait—take that, reverse it ]

@Archimage Huh. I don’t read it that way. Either it has an impact, subtle, overt, whatevs, or it does not have an impact. Influence is one way to have an impact on something. Another is force. Another is reason. Another is chance.

The degrees of each and all can be split as you care to.

@Archimage Isn’t it though? If I suggest something and this something plays a role in someone else taking this or that action, well, that’s the impact.

@Archimage @mandaris Influence is a strange attractor ☘︎꩜❦❉

@Matti I really can’t see how you fit more happy in there! ❤︎

@crossingthethreshold @sod Yeah, nice. 😀❤︎ 7% seems strangely just right for a gentle prompt, cuz, hey, this stuff doesn’t write itself.

@Vincent @SimonWoods Yes, when you are tapped in just the right spot on your knee or elbow—bam!—the reflex has already happened. I try to remember to not be all too hard on myself for the emotional/cognitive version of this, while also trying to keep those little hammers away from my mental tendons.

@sannalund ❤︎

@kq This is such a good question. I do, but only sometimes, mostly read fresh as it arrives. Search is expected or at least fairly universal, and I’m happy using that, but also happy to find tags/categories to browse, especially when there is ‘a lot’ of material. They provide a map of sorts as to where the author would like to direct my attention, as others have observed above.

But on the other side, I don’t have enough there to need categories, and my use of them is very eccentric. Almost everything is tagged as ‘information’. Oh. Okay! That helps, it’s info is it, on your internet? SO visitors can poke around the loose and lazy taxonomy, but lose nothing if they do not.