Stan Shebs wrote:
You're lucky that Jimbo is an ultra-nice guy; if
I were in charge, both you and Jtdir1 would have been
permanently hard-banned months ago for ad hominem and
abusive remarks to other people.
Well, in this case, both are longtime and respected contributors who I
think can rise above it. It's worth noting, though, that I am getting
tired of it.
It's OK to criticize an edit, and even to use
nasty words
in the criticism, but you cross the line when you start
applying them to the people directly, and when you impute
vicious motives to people you don't know at all.
Precisely. That's the big problem here. Whatever the issues are with
various articles, the situation is only made worse by mutual sniping.
It puts people in defensive mode, etc.
We have to be kind to each other, even when we don't like each other,
or we end up generating more heat than light.
--Jimbo