On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw@gmail.com
wrote: In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive
and
only serve to antagonize. I know some forums that have an explicit rule against this, which results in a ban on second violation. If there is a definition of the etiquette for this list somewhere, I suggest having a similar rule be added there. Thoughts?
To be fair, you were proposing that we use a proprietary third party web site for editing wikimedia wiki pages, which would violate out privacy policy and break our principles of openness. How was I not to think you were trolling? My only alternative was to think you've simply lost your mind.
Or perhaps he merely suggested something that you disagreed with (or didn't understand), without "losing [his] mind" or being a "troll"?
I'm a little skeptical about Jeroen's GitHub suggestion, but it seems like something reasonable people can disagree about. Could we not accuse Jeroen or anyone else of being a troll or losing his/her mind for floating an honest proposal?
Thanks Rob