Absolutely. If we stopped using the language of the
witch-hunt or lynch-mob, we would be forced to examine
the behavior.
Focussing on speculation about intent, labelling and
mud-slinging is a major part of the issue.
What part of my behavior caused David Gerard to block
me?
Norrath
--- Jack Lynch <jack.i.lynch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We need better ways of catagorising one another than
troll, admin,
left -right, or whatever. These are ambiguous terms,
and with the
possible exception of "admin", each person who uses
them defines them
differently.
Rather than labeling each other, I'd say it is
better to label the
''conduct''. If someone says or does something rude,
I think it is the
job of others (particularly admins, and in this case
list admins) to
respond to that in a proper manner. Assumably admins
themselves would
be above any improper conduct themselves, but
unfortunately were all
human. I think this current problem is not so much
the act of
whistleblowing, but of how it is responded to.
Personally, I would not
have allowed the numerous threads of complaints
regarding edit warring
/ page-blocking @ [[feces]], for example (and chose
not to read or
respond to them ;)
Jack (Sam Spade)
Perhaps it was a poor choice of words on my part.
Replace "troll" with
"problem user".
~Mark
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