On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:

Recently, a participant on this list said, "I could really care less about what Sue has to say about the budget".

I do not care about the budget. I didn't read the budget, don't know anything about it, and am not interested to learn more about it.It isn't a subject that I find any particular interest in. I see no problem with my honesty about this point.

Didn't we have some sort of moderation plan, to give time-outs to people when they step over a line into hostile, disparaging commentary that adds no value to the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list?  Sue Gardner deserves more respect than that.

My email was intended to address what I considered to be a false and inflammatory comment made previously by another participant, and I believe my response added value to the list as a whole. Furthermore, far from being hostile and disparaging, I thought it to be uplifting for people who try to carry on civil conversations on this list despite the persistent presence of trolls and other negative people. The tolerance with which certain trollish posters are tolerated by the productive majority here is quite inspiring to me, although even with all this inspiration I am not always to deal with these negative elements with as much patience myself. I don't feel that this is a personality flaw on my part.

If I have violated the rules or norms of this forum, I will be happy to suffer moderation as penance.

--Andrew Whitworth