on 11/6/07 7:37 AM, David Gerard at dgerard(a)gmail.com wrote:
On 06/11/2007, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
As an adjunct to this Wikinews is trying to
hammer out some code of conduct
for our experimental comments pages, link below.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Comment_Space
Eloquence? Comments?
Mostly it needs to be really really short (a third or a quarter of the
current length) to have any hope of being read.
I dunno. All such policies come down to "Don't be a dick." You could
start from that, paying $1 for every word over it ...
David, it is clear that simply "Don't be a dick" hasn't worked
so well; some
persons need it to be spelled out much more clearly.
Marc Riddell