Sunday, 7 October 2007, David Gerard wrote:
On 07/10/2007, Alex Nordstrom lx@se.linux.org wrote:
- Users shouldn't have to monitor Commons actively.
- Users should not attempt to hinder or discourage discussions on
their Commons user talk pages. They may request notification of such discussions by some other means, but there should be no obligation to comply, and any missed messages is the responsibility of the recipient.
I don't really see how it's possible for the sender to say in good faith "any missed messages is the responsibility of the recipient" when the sender has a note *right there* saying the message is unlikely to be read there.
Bots tend not to notice or understand such messages, if you use UserMessages.js, you don't necessarily look at the user talk page first, and a lot of times it's not right there but on the user page or on the images. Not everyone might understand English well enough to follow the instructions.
I have a request at the top of my user talk page to continue discussions where they started rather than taking them to my user talk page. People frequently fail to read it, for whatever reason, so I know it happens. I don't think it's because of bad faith, though.