On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:30 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/02/2008, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Betacommand is not the most touchy-feely postitive communicator on good days. Were we implementing this project from scratch, we'd certainly
want
to have someone else be the operator, even if he coded it.
I think the main problem remains that people hate having their images taken away, and direct their ire at what is after all Foundation policy at the person who dares work toward it. c.f. the linked ANI comments page.
It certainly doesn't help. Whoever ran this would have to have an incredible amount of patience under the best circumstances.
But the fact remains that I and many others feel that Betacommand is not the best communicator to try and reduce stress and drama rather than end up generating it.
That's not a ding on him - most, by far a majority of the admins and senior editors have too short a temper for that type of role. I don't think that I would. But it would be good if someone who did have the even keel and temperment stood up and volunteered to run the bot in the future.