On 5/31/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
jayjg wrote:
I've also trimmed the parts of your post here that seemed inflammatory to me. If you are trying to decrease the hysteria, you might consider doing something similar when replying more in this thread.
I was more marveling at it than trying to decrease it. But if you'd like to try to decrease it, feel free.
Sure. Let me begin by asking you to do what you can to decrease it. Would you please do that?
Sure.
Since you were just trying to have a discussion and apparently aren't advocating anything, are you done now? It seems like there has been plenty of discussion on this topic, and if you aren't enjoying it, perhaps letting it go until people are less worked up would be better.
Why would you think I wasn't enjoying it? The personal attacks, insults, and hysterical rhetoric that suddenly appeared in the discussion took me a bit by surprise, but they provide an amusement of sorts.
Ok. If you find disruption fun, that's great. If you are looking to have more discussions just for fun that may lead to similar disruption, would you please create a separate list for it? I'm sure you will find plenty of willing participants.
I took several hours to catch up on this discussion because I think the topic is important to Wikipedia's future, and both the volume and tone made my experience much worse than it needed to be. That you seem cavalier about contributing to that is very frustrating to me. I would rather have spent the time pruning CAT:CSD.
Look, you didn't step in when the rhetoric and insults started flying, so I'm having a difficult time taking it seriously when you suddenly want me to stop *my* responses. Deal with Joe and Sheldon, then come to me when you've calmed them down.