do you know enough about what (other) Bazaar developers are doing?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

John Arbash Meinel writes:

 > Well, would a top post be better?

No.  Again, when people I respect top-post, I end up skimming to the
bottom, looking for content.

 > I certainly find trimming the entire message to lose all context, so I
 > would prefer at least *some* context.

FWIW, my own practice in code approval messages is to keep the log
message, and trim even that if it's more than about 10 lines.

 > I can try to be a better netizen,

That's not the point, at least not yet.  You write:

 > I certainly don't apply a large amount of crafting to messages that I
 > post to bzr.dev. Partly because I feel I should respond to most
 > messages, and I would still like to get done with real work.

By your phrasing, you don't think that posting is "real work."  Isn't
it?  That's the question that is being asked at this point, ISTM.  (I
don't know what the answer is.)