Mandated regulations for forcing politeness generally don't work well. If
you don't trust people to have common sense, they won't exercise it.
But I know I'm in the minority here, so have fun.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/9 <WJhonson(a)aol.com>om>:
>
>
>> Most of our editors enjoy marking up their user page with details about
>> themselves, and I see no harm to the project in that and it's my
believe
that
> those who do it, constitute the majority of the editors and thus the
"consensus"
> that it should be viewed as just fine.
I view it as similar to decorating your
cubicle at work.
At the very least , let's try to keep "focusing only on Encyclopedia
activities" separate from "focusing on abusive and rude behavior". They
are
not related in any way. I don't know of any
significant objection in
principle to people treating each other politely, but I do know of plenty
of
opposition (and count myself among it) on
sterilizing the environment of
any
personalization.
The target of the day is rude abusive behavior - stay on target.
With respect, there are other ways of "lowering the tone", besides
"rude
abusive". A somewhat large and scarlet herring having been drawn across
that point, I seem to have to point it out once more.
Charles
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