On 27/09/2007, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
If this is truly a "collaborative" Project, what the hell are we doing attacking each other in the first place!?
Marc Riddell
The original comment may have been innocent. The person who made it may not have intendend for it to be harmful. Indeed, whether or not it would be harmful may not have been something he or she was thinking about.
When it is explained to you that it is harmful, and you do not remove it (even blanking, which doesn't hide it from anyone but bots) or refactor it, you knowingly harm the person. Attacking the person for asking the material to be removed goes beyond even that. (It may be reasonable, however, to ask that if your harmful comment is removed, any harmful comments that provoked your comment also be removed - if you can't respond to them, they shouldn't be there.)