On 02/28/2010 08:43 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 28 February 2010 20:24, William
Pietri<william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
Menacing people like that with
"consequences" mainly serves to destroy
motivation, not create it, so if you're truly interested in getting this
done, I ask you not to do that again.
Nobody has done any menacing. He asked what the consequences would be,
he didn't threaten consequences. (That there will be consequences if
you don't do your job should go without saying. Those consequences
will come from your boss, not the community, though.)
Well, in my experience, when somebody starts out with "what the fuck"
and ends up talking about consequences, it is rarely a purely academic
inquiry into organizational practices. But if I read it wrong, I'd be
glad to apologize.
I think the people working on this (Aaron and Howie in particular) are
both talented and hardworking, so I feel protective of them. I'd like
them to spend a long time working for the Wikimedia Foundation, and
anything that might push against that is going to rile me up some.
William