On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:34 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Chad wrote:
On Mar 8, 2014 1:42 PM, "Brandon
Harris" <bharris(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
New rule: calling badger is synonymous with asking for the moderation bit
for yourself.
Fine, but first we have to ban the people who top-post and don't trim
unnecessary parts of their e-mails. :-)
I personally read the badger link as a politer(?) version of calling
someone a troll.
It's actually something used on WMF staffer lists and it's supposed to be
a
cute way of telling people a thread is getting out of hand. Some people use
it that way, and I feel Brandon was in this case, but it's most often used
to shut down conversations that people find unpleasant or controversial and
its actual effect is usually to enrage those it's used against.
I'd wager it has an overwhelmingly negative effect on communication (and
WMF's internal politics likely prove that) and I'm with Chad in saying
anyone that uses it here should be moderated. This is of course off topic,
so I'll leave this at that.
- Ryan