[Foundation-l] Forking the Wiki

[Jens Ropers]

On 5 Jan 2005, at 17:00, Scott Nelson wrote:

> Can this be taken off list?
>
> This conversation long since lost any relevance to the wiki project.
>

On 5 Jan 2005, at 18:04, Scott Nelson wrote:

> Unless the foundation is considering getting into the radioactive 
> and/or nuclear weapon business? The French certainly do very well with 
> it, and you could probably fund the entire Foundation with a couple of 
> sales for quite some time.
> --
> Scott Nelson
>
> Living in a nuclear free zone.

Scott --

Do you think that publicly lobbing politically loaded insults at "the 
other side" is a good way of getting people to stop arguing/defending 
their political POV in public?

You can ask for this to go off-list in a neutral fashion.
You initially did that, fair enough. (NB: you and everyone's welcome to 
post to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ropers ).
But you then turned around and threw a biggie into the opposite 
direction. This effectively makes it impossible for the other side to 
gracefully end a political thread (to the escalation of which I 
probably contributed, which may not have been wise). The other side 
will feel that if they don't defend their view, then you've won and 
they've lost. This is like a partisan talk host who finishes with an 
extreme partisan insult and then says: "Sorry. We've JUST run out of 
time." and proceeds to signal for the targeted party to be cut out and 
taken off the air. If you were the butt of such a "joke", would you 
take it?

a not holier than thou (really)
--
Jens Ropers