On 26 January 2011 07:24, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia-inc.com wrote:
On 1/21/11 5:46 PM, David Gerard wrote:
No-one is in fact obliged to respond to you on foundation-l, indeed many WMF employees and WMF and chapter volunteers don't read it, referring instead to it as troll-l. It would be nice if this weren't the case.
I know a good way to help achieve that. Ban the trolls. It's what we do on the wiki, and it works.
I think MZ has a reasonable misunderstanding, and was just horribly unpleasant in his phrasing. Hence my attempt to address his concerns properly, even speaking just as any old volunteer.
The trouble with trolls is that there's a grey area of "inept" between "polite" and "trolling".
- d.