On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:34 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Chad wrote:
On Mar 8, 2014 1:42 PM, "Brandon Harris" bharris@wikimedia.org wrote:
New rule: calling badger is synonymous with asking for the moderation bit for yourself.
Fine, but first we have to ban the people who top-post and don't trim unnecessary parts of their e-mails. :-)
I personally read the badger link as a politer(?) version of calling someone a troll.
It's actually something used on WMF staffer lists and it's supposed to be a cute way of telling people a thread is getting out of hand. Some people use it that way, and I feel Brandon was in this case, but it's most often used to shut down conversations that people find unpleasant or controversial and its actual effect is usually to enrage those it's used against.
I'd wager it has an overwhelmingly negative effect on communication (and WMF's internal politics likely prove that) and I'm with Chad in saying anyone that uses it here should be moderated. This is of course off topic, so I'll leave this at that.
- Ryan