Christopher Thieme wrote:
I just got admonished by "Mark" for being
"uncivil" on this list with regard
to a comment I made in my initial message on "Moving the Main Page."
Please don't be condescending or patronising when you address people.
I don't think I was. At least, from how I read
the strict construction of
the policy, I didn't say anything ruled to be incivility by the dictates
of WP:CIVIL.
We go by the spirit of the law, not the letter of the law.
And going back to my post on what psychosis might be
hidden in some of
users, I forgot one of the biggest problems underneath the surface of
Wikipedia...
We have too many humorless people.
We also have too many people who don't know how to act seriously.
Humorless people who enforce WP:CIVIL thinking that
something benign
and rhetorical and not even mentioned in WP:CIVIL is "incivility."
And those who don't realize that it's incivility to admonish others
for acting with "incivility."
It was done privately, by a list moderator. Incivility is when I hit you
with the banhammer for being an annoying little @#$%.
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