On 7/3/06, Jon Awbrey jawbrey@att.net wrote:
over the past six months. But a modicum of incidental chit-chat aside from any greater purpose does not seem to be out of bounds with what I observe on a day-to-day basis on this List.
Parting shots at the community you're disenchanted with is not "incidental chit chat".
It is clear that some folks are desperately seeking any sort of excuse they can cook up not to listen to the kinds of responsible feedback that I am hardly alone in providing. This is understandable in human terms --
You haven't provided any useful "responsible feedback". Instead, criticisms, accusations of rot in the system that appear to be unfounded, etc etc.
bad news, even if accurate, especially when accurate, is never welcome -- but it will not serve either the WP effort, nor any future effort of its kind, to ignore the lessons of actual experience.
This discussion is definitely not serving the WP effort.
The bear-baiting and messenger-killing tactics -- that some people will resort to in order to keep from having to consider any kind of critical analyis --
No, we like critical analysis, and we do a lot of it on this list. We're seasoned navel-gazers, and proud of it. You've had your chance to join in, but it's just not working out.
are quite familiar as a rule: A defender of the faith spews a flaming mass of pure invective into the forum, and the mildest response on the part of the invectee is then condemned as being off-topic. Very typical, but hardly to the greater purpose.
Ok, can we move on now? Thanks.
Steve