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