[Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Mar 31 21:08:51 UTC 2008


David Gerard wrote:
> On 31/03/2008, Austin Hair <adhair at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>  > That carries with it the implied statement that strong bids from such
>>  >  places would have been unwelcome from the very start for 2009's
>>  >  Wikimania, which is troubling. If that's not the case, please let me
>>  >  know. I'm certainly not saying that BA had a weak bid; from what I've
>>  >  seen of it, I don't think it was too bad. Were the jury to have
>>  >  addressed the concerns regarding the high relative weight that
>>  >  location has compared to it's actual level of importance when compared
>>  >  to other factors, and still chosen BA on its merits, I'd be OK with
>>  >  that; I just feel that those concerns were not addressed.
>>     
>> That certainly wasn't implied, and I'm sure you know it.  Don't troll.
>>     
> That's certainly precisely how it read to me. Don't call people trolls.
To be clear, Austin used the verb "troll", not the noun.

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