[Foundation-l] Plea for candidates: WMF Movement Communications Manager

Virgilio A. P. Machado vam at fct.unl.pt
Sat Apr 16 00:05:27 UTC 2011


So nobody has any idea why things are the way they are? Will I have 
to make a drawing?

Virgilio A. P. Machado (Vapmachado)


At 00:43 16-04-2011, you wrote:
>It is a valid point about David's comment. Maybe us old hands have
>become too accustomed to David's sarcasm. Other than that it seems to
>have been a conversation where one person was offside to everybody else.
>I've been there before and know how uncomfortable it can become.  The
>insensitive comment was certainly not essential to the main topic of the
>thread,  but if in raising it the only result would be to have David
>personally change his ways nothing of significance to the community
>would have been accomplished.  One person would have been fixed while
>the rest of us could go smugly on believing that that was the end of it.
>
>The continuum from valid on-topic comments, through insensitive sarcasm
>to outright personal attacks is not made up of discrete and easily
>identifiable steps.  Where is the middle ground between insensitivity
>and hypersensitivity.
>
>Ray




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