On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Chris Sherlock chris.sherlock79@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with this, though I wonder about what to do when people cause events that damage the central ideas and tenants of an organization.
Just a thought.
It is not hard to keep discussions involving people relevant to the issues at hand, and discuss people in context of their role or influence in events and decision making, and these discussions are good to have.
Starting threads pointedly about individuals, with discussions about the issues only tangential to the point of the attack on the individual is a very different thing, one that I think most recognize when they see this, as well as other threads that are coatracks and sea lioning.[0][1] For every positive thread we're generating, we're producing at least two other toxic threads. And we're tolerating it. We have to stop.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Coatrack 1. http://wondermark.com/1k62/