I don't even know what the purpose of this thread is now. Seems to be
discussion about development practices, badgering and various other things.
I started two other threads to try and break out these important
conversations but looks like conversation is still happening here so I
guess that failed.
I figure a lot of people have muted this thread now (myself included now).
It would be great if we could turn all this anger and frustrations into
solutions to fix some of the root issues here. My personal opinion is I
doubt any of this will happen on this thread.
On 8 Mar 2014 22:04, "Ryan Lane" <rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:34 PM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Chad wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2014 1:42 PM, "Brandon Harris" <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger
>
>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
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