On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
[rest of the flaming snipped] Or are there just a few bad applies that
need to be disinvited from the community.
This sort of blatant personal attack on people who disagree with your viewpoints is not a very good way to start a constructive conversation.
I know this thread is only a week old... but if you would take the time to read the entire thread you might observe that through discussion I came to the understanding Thomas was actually disagreeing with a point which was not being made in the cited discussion, and that he was not claiming to reject the position that WP ought avoid harming people as he appeared to be. Which elicited a response of "I'm glad to hear that you're not a complete monster. ;)"
Though I'm also a bit confused a bit by your accusations of "personal attacks" and "juvenile name calling", when at least some effort was made to avoid singling out specific people and instead criticize a pattern of behavior which I considered to be anti-social and generally harmful. It's not a 'personal attack' to criticize a class of behavior, no matter how personally offended a person who sees a potential similarity in their own actions...
On a serious note, If you or anyone else holds the position that Wikipedia need to abide by the conventional rules of basic ethical behavior, please let me know so that I can have the honor of being the first to extend the previously mentioned disinvitation. I'm confident that I would not be alone.
(As noted, Thomas apparently wasn't trying to take that position ... so my complaint was ultimately not one that should apply to him)