Christopher Thieme wrote:
I just got admonished by "Mark" for being "uncivil" on this list with regard to a comment I made in my initial message on "Moving the Main Page."
Please don't be condescending or patronising when you address people.
I don't think I was. At least, from how I read the strict construction of the policy, I didn't say anything ruled to be incivility by the dictates of WP:CIVIL.
We go by the spirit of the law, not the letter of the law.
And going back to my post on what psychosis might be hidden in some of users, I forgot one of the biggest problems underneath the surface of Wikipedia...
We have too many humorless people.
We also have too many people who don't know how to act seriously.
Humorless people who enforce WP:CIVIL thinking that something benign and rhetorical and not even mentioned in WP:CIVIL is "incivility."
And those who don't realize that it's incivility to admonish others for acting with "incivility."
It was done privately, by a list moderator. Incivility is when I hit you with the banhammer for being an annoying little @#$%.