Stan Shebs wrote:
You're lucky that Jimbo is an ultra-nice guy; if I were in charge, both you and Jtdir1 would have been permanently hard-banned months ago for ad hominem and abusive remarks to other people.
Well, in this case, both are longtime and respected contributors who I think can rise above it. It's worth noting, though, that I am getting tired of it.
It's OK to criticize an edit, and even to use nasty words in the criticism, but you cross the line when you start applying them to the people directly, and when you impute vicious motives to people you don't know at all.
Precisely. That's the big problem here. Whatever the issues are with various articles, the situation is only made worse by mutual sniping. It puts people in defensive mode, etc.
We have to be kind to each other, even when we don't like each other, or we end up generating more heat than light.
--Jimbo