From: Matt R matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:27:44 +0000 (GMT) To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] incivility.
--- Christopher Thieme cdthieme@gmail.com wrote:
Making mountains out of molehills, and raising tempests in a teapot.
Such as escalating your annoyance about an off-list message back onto the list?
People... need to lighten up and lower their defensive walls, because often, they're the cause of their own problems.
This is sometimes true. It is also sometimes true that people need to be more careful with how they express themselves to avoid giving offence to others. In many cases, both are true. Wikipedians have such diverse backgrounds that we need to make allowances in both directions.
A simple test: After you have written something - before you hit 'send' - look at what you have written and ask yourself, "Would I say the exact same thing, in exactly the same way if I were talking with the person face to face?"
Marc Riddell
P.S. Your emails are breaking mailing list threads in Gmail.
I don't even begin to know what that means, and as a result I'm inclined to not really care.
You should probably care: your emails break the sequence connecting a reply to the original message, and not just in Gmail by the looks of things. Each of your emails appears to be the start of a new thread, rather than being a reply to an old one.
-- Matt
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