Meta profiles got a big blue banner. It's neat, but the long sentences describing various features should probably end with a full stop.
2 Answers
These sound very awkward and hastily put-together.
Proposed replacements:
The new profile shows off your most helpful posts and lets users follow you on Twitter, GitHub, Stack Overflow Careers, or any other site.
The new activity page tracks your contributions, including the number of times someone searching for help found your posts here.
Whether you're brand new or have helped millions already, the activity page's "next privilege" and "next badge" bars can encourage you to take the next step.
In context:
(I'll admit that that last one may be a bit too long.)
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1@Werner I assumed that's something they'd fix design-wise on their side if they decided to use this wording.– AstroCBCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 22:09
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"These sound very awkward and hastily put-together" I'm not entirely sure that is a fair statement to make. I think you are confusing "mistake" with "personal preference".– JamesCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 22:36
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2@James The only reason I say that is because they don't sound (or look) like anything else I've seen around SE.– AstroCBCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 22:39
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@James Look at the blurbs around the site and the articles in the Help Center – these don't sound anything like those.– AstroCBCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 22:42
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The Help Center is different, it is not a banner. The HC has multiple vertical sentences and paragraphs on the same column, so they need full stops. The banner has 3 columns with only one block of text in each column (only one sentence actually) and each item's text is clearly separated from the others. I don't believe in this case it's "necessary", and refer back to my answer of "personal preference" and "consistency". "Banner" vs "page of text" is apples and oranges.– JamesCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 22:50
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@James "Consistency" is the key here. You imply from "personal preference" that this is a matter of style, which it is. So then the question is – whose style? If you want consistency, you should use the same writing style throughout the network pages and prompts. These prompts use numerous capital letters and excessive commas, both of which go against the consistent norm seen on other other similar pieces of text throughout the site.– AstroCBCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 22:53
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1A banner with colours and images and only 3 columns with a single sentence on each column is a completely different thing to the help center page with no colours or images, many paragraphs and descriptions and a page full of text. Should the HC have a blue background? Or images? Or separated into 3 columns because the banner is? Or should consistency only extend to sentences of text? I agree consistency should remain throughout the site, not just within a single part of it, but a banner is not a page of text.– JamesCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 23:04
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@James We're talking about writing style consistency here – not design. I'm not trying to attack yours or anyone else's opinion; I'm just giving mine.– AstroCBCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 23:23
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I'm not talking about design either. It is perfectly acceptable for writing style to change between two completely different things. Of course throughout the help center and tour page it should all look and read the same, in a similar style etc. But this is not about a page full of paragraphs and text. It's a banner. Are there any other banners on Stack? If yes, then this one should be consistent with that one. Otherwise, if this is the only banner on the whole of MSE, then they can do what they want– JamesCommented Apr 14, 2015 at 23:24
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I wasn't attacking your opinion, nor did I feel you were "attacking" mine. We were just debating, chewin' the fat ;)– JamesCommented Apr 15, 2015 at 13:19
but the long sentences describing various features should probably end with a full stop
Personally I prefer them without full stops/periods in a banner like that, as it's obvious where the block of text for one column or single feature ends.
Full stops/periods are more for when you need vertical separation, i.e. like your question, my answer, etc. Whereas horizontal blocks like in the banner don't really need them.
That said, I don't think either way is grammatically incorrect or required, it's more personal writing style and choice, the main thing is consistency.
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