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Written by glasnt on 2024-11-23 at 23:00

This is your perennial reminder that if you're at a presentation, and a speaker asks for questions, please ask a question. A question ends in an inflection and a question mark.

If you want to chat with the speaker, wait til their off stage. They'd love to chat with you! But please respect the time of the audience and ask thoughtful short questions while the speaker is on stage, and have conversations later.

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Written by Konstantin Weddige on 2024-11-23 at 23:07

@glasnt ideally ask also questions, that can be answered in a few sentences.

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Written by Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE on 2024-11-23 at 23:37

@weddige @glasnt The speaker has to help here. By actually answering in a few sentences, rather than using it as an excuse to go into the 2,000 word chunk (only very vaguely related to the question) that they weren't able to include in the main speech for time reasons, thereby making sure nobody else gets to ask a question.

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Written by Thomas Beagle on 2024-11-23 at 23:41

@glasnt I don't really agree with that. I think the two rules should be: 1) Keep it short, 2) Engage with what the speaker says. Ideally this will then invite a response.

I've been in enough presentations where there are experts in the crowd who honestly do have something to add.

As long as they keep it short. Keeping it short is the real rule.

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Written by liam o 🦆 on 2024-11-24 at 01:06

@thomasbeagle @glasnt if a speaker has a "questions or comments" section, sure. If it's a Q&A section and you're giving a comment, regardless of how short or your level of expertise, you're failing to follow instructions and being a jerk. If you have some great insights you want to share with an audience, submit a talk like the actual speaker did

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Written by Thomas Beagle on 2024-11-24 at 01:29

@liamo @glasnt And yet, the tide still comes in.

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Written by itgrrl :donor: on 2024-11-24 at 00:43

@glasnt

And don’t try to skate around this by making a statement about what you think about and then appending “don’t you agree?” 🙃

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Written by Paul_IPv6 on 2024-11-24 at 01:32

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and there should be an ejector button for anyone starting "this is more a comment than a question"....

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