Ray Saintonge wrote:
The important point in this is to avoid having people jump to conclusions. We have no shortage of people willing to boldly find an excuse to embark on some kind of deletion campaign.
Precisely for this reason, I can't help but ask why Kat felt it necessary to post anything at all. Couldn't she just have been silent? Perhaps the posting should have started with an explanation exactly why the posting was necessary. I can't believe that upsetting the Italian community was among her reasons.
We all wish that the Italian community would understand that the Foundation really doesn't hate Italy, but apparently such wishes can't stop another hundred messages from cluttering this list.
In every practical aspect, policies from the Foundation (or from Brion) now behave like a mass medium and tend to be redistributed and misinterpreted in the same manner. This means spokespeople need the same kind of [[media training]] that political candidates have to go through if they want to communicate their message successfully.