Rob Smith wrote:
On 3/3/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Actually most of the community did the smart thing and completely ignored this teapot tempest, but the reaction was in the main hysterical and, yes, stupid.
Do you think that the presence of a baying mob materially affected the outcome? I don't.
Yes but the question has always been what is the reaction outside the community, not inside.
It's really a question of which of the two you consider more important. I would normally consider the one inside the community more important because it affects how editors relate with each other. With good co-operation there is little to worry about outside.
The outside reactions will mostly be short-term reflecting the outrage of the moment. Those reactions will come even when we do everything right. That goes with the territory of being big. If we put so much emphasis on, "What do the neighbours think?" we can too easily lose focus on what we are about.
Ec