On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is that you misunderstood what he was saying, and then harshly criticized what you mistakenly took him to mean. He was asked "Can you describe the editorial policy [of wikien.net]?" He replied that it would be a relaxed forum for discussion and chitchat, with 'no trolling or outing' as a caveat to the relaxed moderating. Nowhere did he make a claim about on-wiki (or on-list) problems of trolling or outing (outing is making public personal details on someone who edits psuedonymously). The background, which you evidently missed, is that some non-wiki forums used to discuss Wikipedia expressly allow both trolling and outing.
Fair enough, I do appear to have missed part of the conversation. I apologise.
Though the intent may be chivalrous, I still think that splintering is bad for any community. It's hard to keep up with everything that's going on.
I'm quite new to the mailing lists and I really hanker for things to be reined in. For example, I'd prefer that "Foundation" type announcements were on... well, I was going to say en:wp... but that would be too hidden from people working on other projects, so maybe on Meta? And then people could leave comments there.
I do feel that we should follow the Wiki-way.