On 6/7/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/6/07, Tony Sidaway
<tonysidaway(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Why do I even have to explain this? You're
not newbies.
Tony, I suspect you hold the record for managing to be right yet
pissing people off by the way you do it. Would it hurt to try and get
things done a little less abrasively at times? For one thing, pissing
people off tends to make them blind to the sense of your argument, and
since quite often your reasoning is actually good, this sounds
counter-productive.
I don't think there is any legitimate reason to be pissed off here. I
correctly identified some serious problems in an article, correctly
removed it from the list that is supposed to represent our best
articles, correctly alerted about half the community, and correctly
followed up by working to resolve the issues.
And for a bonus, I educated some people on this mailing list in how it
is possible, in a wiki, to do things quickly and without red tape.
This is value for money, particularly as I don't demand remuneration.
What's to complain about?
Welcome to the real world, where human beings don't calculate the costs and
benefits of actions and scream "OMG UNILATERAL ADMIN ABUSE" when you are
bold and perform a revertable action. As I said, there were non-abrasive
ways of handling the situation and accomplishing the same or almost the same
result. Even the way you word your messages helps; you may be right, but
hitting people over the head with a tone like "Haha, I'm right and you're
not! Why don't you realise this?" isn't helpful.
Johnleemk