On 6/7/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/6/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@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?