On 11/11/06, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Asking someone to "avoid" participating does not imply disallowing that participation. It only warns them that this sometimes leads to conflicts.
Any ordinary person reading this in a straightforward way would take an instruction to "avoid" doing something as a statement that it is not allowed.
Yes, if what is really meant is that it's perfectly OK to participate in a deletion discussion over a company you work for, but that we want to "warn [people] that this sometimes leads to conflicts", then the page should be rewritten to warn people that "this" sometimes leads to conflicts, not to tell people to "avoid" "it".
'Cause I've always taken "avoid X" to mean "try not to do X", and I don't think I'm the only one who thinks this way.
And if I were writing the guideline, I'd say "X is encouraged", where X is "participating politely in a deletion discussion over yourself/your company/your favorite TV show/anything you know a lot about.
Anthony