Fred Bauder wrote:
In this situation the user who is deleting other users
attempts to
communicate with them is clearly in the wrong. Two metapolicies are
being violated, Assume good faith and our consensus decision making
policy. If they are not willing to negotiate they are apparently
trying to impose their will in other ways, reverting, etc. What we
have here is a failure to communicate. It's a shame that that line
was put into the mouth of a fascist in Cool Hand Luke. Talking things
over in good faith is one of our basic assumptions.
Fred
Please keep in mind this is a user talk page, and the user who "owns"
the talk page is doing the deletion. As has been pointed out, there are
other forums for expressing dissatisfaction, including this e-mail list.
As to the ethics of removing that content may be debateable, it is
clear that the intended user did indeed get the message, even if they
are making a statement by removing that content afterward. Just as I
delete stuff in my in-box for my e-mail account... even if it isn't
strictly spam.
--
Robert Scott Horning