[Commons-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Friendliness

[David Gerard]

On 23 February 2011 17:22, Daniel Schwen <lists at schwen.de> wrote:

> For crying out loud, do we really need to sugar coat every
> informational bot message? if peoples "feelings" are hurt because we
> tell them a bot they did something wrong that is essentially not my
> problem.


If the current situation is your idea of "just right", the evidence
seems to suggest that your idea of "just right" is in fact wrong for
almost everyone else.

Generalising from oneself is prone to error. Generalising from oneself
*in the face of contradictory evidence* is ... foolish.


- d.