[WikiEN-l] Abusive editors

Wed Mar 9 17:03:40 UTC 2005

steven l. rubenstein wrote:

> I believe that both positions I have hypothesized are extreme.  I hope 
> members of the list-serve can present alternatives, and discuss this 
> case as a means for clarifying our ideas about policies and procedures.
>
Steve,

Your "First aproach: No personal attacks, period" is both extreme and 
correct.  That in it's pure form must always be our policy.  Yesterday, 
for example, I was guilty of saying at [[Talk:Human]], "It is clear that 
the editors currently present are not interested in talking first and 
shooting later."  My personal attack required an apology.

If Adam Carr had believed in the primacy of that rule, he would have 
directed his frustration toward finding acceptable solutions instead of 
taking the easy and ineffective way out of blowing his top at Peter in 
Canberra (Skyring).  He needed to search deeper for solutions to the 
Peter Problem.

Tom Haws