on 1/30/07 7:00 PM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
People who are good editors, but take other people's statement to heart, can get so upset that they no longer want to work in WP, and that's certainly a loss to the project. So the civility rule is partly about backing down to a level that reduces hurt and misunderstandings across a broad range of individuals.
Isn't this a rather paternalistic attitude? "We are censoring this for your protection" is the first reason given by powers that would be.
Marc