On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:30 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 25/02/2008, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)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.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com