On 8/2/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
jayjg wrote:
ArmedBlowfish was having trouble posting to the list, and asked me to help. I thought it was a technical issue. I didn't read the posts, I just forwarded them along.
I am astonished at the lack of good faith here.
You responded to at least one post in which I explicitly complained about the rape analogy: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-August/078454.html. So you had to have been aware of its inflammatory nature at that point.
Then just 28 minutes later you forwarded another email from ArmedBlowfish in response to the same posting, with more extreme rape references: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-August/078464.html.
Good faith can only be assumed so far. It would require unbelievable levels of obliviousness to not notice what was in that.
Actually, I responded to your claim that there had been a lot of over the top rhetoric on the thread; I just took you at your word, no more, no less. The exact details of the over the top rhetoric weren't particularly relevant to me.
Regarding the "rape" posts, some people think they were inappropriate, some people think they were not (as evidenced by various comments on this thread). I'm not taking a stand, as, frankly, I still haven't read them. Regardless, when I realized that people were taking umbrage at AB's posts, I stopped forwarding them. And there were, indeed, several other posts by AB that I did not forward. I haven't read those either.
As I said before, the lack of good faith here is astonishing, and, frankly depressing, as are many of the other comments here.