(04-28-2018, 12:50 PM)Karlotta Wrote: Reducing the number of unnecessary words (and the people who wrote rules and IDs used a LOT of unnecessary words) is a much better way to make something easier to read an understand, and is a standard that every editor follows. A lot of things in discovery were written by people (sometimes rather young people) who obviously don't have very good writing and editing skills. Changing the font size to make something LOOK as if its shorter, or using a lot of unnecessary words to make it LOOK as if there is also a lot of work and content in the text, is the kind of thing that high school teachers cringe at when their students do it. And it will also make the more mature readers cringe when they see it being done in discovery.
(04-28-2018, 12:58 PM)Karlotta Wrote: I understand that, but you shouldn't make it needlessly difficult for others who still have to learn to walk. Also try to empathize with people who don't want study a text that's poorly written and contains many things that are totally obsolete. Improving the writing style and wording without changing the meaning, and removing redundant and obsolete things doesn't require vets to re-learn anything.
