Will Beback wrote:
Honestly,
between the apparent conflicts in your assorted answers, your
unwillingness to answer David's question about what you learned from
last time, and your apparent inability to even understand the points on
the other side, I have to wonder about your motivation here.
Given that nobody else seems to think your a proposal is a good idea,
ave you considered the notion that perhaps you're still sore about the
previous incident and are determined to prove yourself right
retrospectively?
Is that what passes of assuming good faith around here?
I'm not questioning your good faith at all, Will. I'm questioning you
ability to be open and honest about your feelings and motivations,
primarily with yourself. I guess I'm also questioning your ability to
recognize when you have a conflict of interest and set that aside.
Based on what I know of the Making Light incident, those seemed to be
important factors. When a discussion, like this one, is making no
progress, one possible reason is that it's not actually about the topic
being discussed. So I thought I'd ask. I guess I got about the answer I
expected, though.
To move things
forward I made a fresh proposal that I though addressed some objections
to previous policies. However the loud response has been "that sounds
like the old proposal, and we've already rejected that so stop bothering
us." I've seen too few suggestions and too much potshots. It's easy to
say "that'll never work", and apparently hard to ask "how about
this?"
I understand your proposal is different than BADSITES Classic. I think
we've explained in detail why we think this particular proposal would
produce at best small benefit while creating lasting harm both
externally and internally. I believe you have not acknowledged or
recognized those issues, or adjusted your proposal in response to them,
so I feel the discussion is approaching, if not already past, the end of
its useful life. Perhaps that's where you're getting the "stop bothering
us" feeling from.
As to "it's easy to take pot shots" bit, I've proposed two or three
different things, so I assume you're talking about somebody else here.
William
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