On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
I think that was absolutely uncalled for - you should apologize to Jake for your comments.
I'll happily apologise. But what was wrong in my assessment that starting a new community is the solution to any perceived problems either here or on wiki or other places where we can discuss things?
The problem is that you misunderstood what he was saying, and then harshly criticized what you mistakenly took him to mean. He was asked "Can you describe the editorial policy [of wikien.net]?" He replied that it would be a relaxed forum for discussion and chitchat, with 'no trolling or outing' as a caveat to the relaxed moderating. Nowhere did he make a claim about on-wiki (or on-list) problems of trolling or outing (outing is making public personal details on someone who edits psuedonymously). The background, which you evidently missed, is that some non-wiki forums used to discuss Wikipedia expressly allow both trolling and outing.
Nathan