[Foundation-l] Etiquette, Civility

[Robert Scott Horning]

Fred Bauder wrote:

>In this situation the user who is deleting other users attempts to  
>communicate with them is clearly in the wrong. Two metapolicies are  
>being violated, Assume good faith and our consensus decision making  
>policy. If they are not willing to negotiate they are apparently  
>trying to impose their will in other ways, reverting, etc. What we  
>have here is a failure to communicate. It's a shame that that line  
>was put into the mouth of a fascist in Cool Hand Luke. Talking things  
>over in good faith is one of our basic assumptions.
>
>Fred
>  
>
Please keep in mind this is a user talk page, and the user who "owns" 
the talk page is doing the deletion.  As has been pointed out, there are 
other forums for expressing dissatisfaction, including this e-mail list. 
 As to the ethics of removing that content may be debateable, it is 
clear that the intended user did indeed get the message, even if they 
are making a statement by removing that content afterward.  Just as I 
delete stuff in my in-box for my e-mail account... even if it isn't 
strictly spam.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning