Brian J Mingus wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.netwrote:
Brian J Mingus wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow <wikipedia@verizon.net wrote:
Can we discuss something else, rather than having the list get sidetracked into geopolitical debates that aren't at all useful to the work we do? Aside from fantasizing about a share of the prize money, even the original subject was not especially on-topic for discussion here. Thank you.
--Michael Snow
Yes, hardly anything is relevant for discussion on this list anymore. It happens either on internal WMF mailing lists or IRL.
It's not that those discussions wouldn't be relevant to have on this list, and periodically people try and encourage others to move them to a more public setting. It's that when this list continues to show a tendency for conversation to degenerate, as it just did, then it's quite hard to persuade people that they should want to have their discussions here.
--Michael Snow
You believe that my reply to Tim is degenerate? That is offensive.
Don't imagine for yourself things that I didn't say, and try to not take it so personally. We mostly need to improve our discussion overall, not remove an individual posting or poster. That's what I mean by degenerating. As I indicated earlier, in this case the seeds were sown in the choice of the subject to begin with. I happened to reply to your message because it was the most recent when I wrote. It could just as easily have been Marc's or Tim's.
--Michael Snow