On 6/2/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/1/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/2/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Tony is going around pissing people off badly enough that they RfC him
over
it.
George, if I breathe someone gets pissed off. This isn't normally regarded as a cause for concern.
No, actually, your day to day stuff only ruffles people's feathers.
Your attitude that it's ok to do that is annoying.
Your attitude that it's ok to move beyond that into actually pissing them off, and doing things like rejecting RfCs out of hand merely because they're silly, is a serious problem.
If people are actively pissed off at the way you're behaving it is a serious problem. You are the single most active visible WP admin a lot of the time, and you're going around causing disruption and conflict throughout the community, and acting proud of it. What, exactly, do you think that sends as a message to new editors?
It is not ok to go around pissing people off. It is important to figure out how to get things done without pissing them off.
Well said, And to think that people are worrying about "possible polemical" effects and ignoring the deeper problems with the wikipedia community structure.
Peter Ansell