[Foundation-l] Opinions/suggestions for "outside" members of the board?

Tue Jun 20 21:28:31 UTC 2006

Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 6/20/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I thought it was a pretty entertaining retort.
> 
> Perhaps. Watching chimpanzees beat each other up can be pretty
> entertaining, too. But if we are to adopt the social standards of
> chimpanzees on this mailing list, I demand some free grooming.

/me picks a bug from Erik hair.  And eats it.

Seriously people, let's relax a notch or two, ok?  I think we have to
recognize that there is a fair amount of trolling going on in this list,
which would naturally have the goal and purpose of putting good people
like Erik, Cunctator, Anthere, me, and Gregory Maxwell at each others
throats.

As far as I am aware, "Assume Good Faith" allows for much better
conversations than all this sniping. :)

> And what a great honor it would be to be allowed to
> waste away more hours for Wikimedia without pay, while receiving a
> litany of complaints from people who want their sock puppets checked,
> their admins tarred and feathered, or their crackpot theories about
> using orgasmic energy to run jet engines featured on the Main Page --
> all the while being accused of being part of some grand shadowy
> conspiracy to make every single human being on the planet read a copy
> of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead". 

Erik gets major points here for understanding what it is like. :)

--Jimbo

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