Will Beback wrote:
Honestly, between the apparent conflicts in your assorted answers, your unwillingness to answer David's question about what you learned from last time, and your apparent inability to even understand the points on the other side, I have to wonder about your motivation here.
Given that nobody else seems to think your a proposal is a good idea, ave you considered the notion that perhaps you're still sore about the previous incident and are determined to prove yourself right retrospectively?
Is that what passes of assuming good faith around here?
I'm not questioning your good faith at all, Will. I'm questioning you ability to be open and honest about your feelings and motivations, primarily with yourself. I guess I'm also questioning your ability to recognize when you have a conflict of interest and set that aside.
Based on what I know of the Making Light incident, those seemed to be important factors. When a discussion, like this one, is making no progress, one possible reason is that it's not actually about the topic being discussed. So I thought I'd ask. I guess I got about the answer I expected, though.
To move things forward I made a fresh proposal that I though addressed some objections to previous policies. However the loud response has been "that sounds like the old proposal, and we've already rejected that so stop bothering us." I've seen too few suggestions and too much potshots. It's easy to say "that'll never work", and apparently hard to ask "how about this?"
I understand your proposal is different than BADSITES Classic. I think we've explained in detail why we think this particular proposal would produce at best small benefit while creating lasting harm both externally and internally. I believe you have not acknowledged or recognized those issues, or adjusted your proposal in response to them, so I feel the discussion is approaching, if not already past, the end of its useful life. Perhaps that's where you're getting the "stop bothering us" feeling from.
As to "it's easy to take pot shots" bit, I've proposed two or three different things, so I assume you're talking about somebody else here.
William