[WikiEN-l] A mentor system

[Fred Bauder]

All helping and supporting relationships have that possibility, but
sometimes help and support are appropriate. Reverting or deleting someone's
work and calling it nonsense and threatening to ban them also carries the
connotation of superiority without the proffered help and support.

Fred

At 01:31 AM 1/18/03 -0800, you wrote:
>  "We're better than you, and this is how you should do things." Zoe  

<Ed Poor>
>wrote: I like the new idea of a "mentor" better than the old idea of "this
>guy needs to be banned". 
>
>I suggest that mentors apply a 7-to-1 ratio of praise to criticism. That
>is, "I liked this" "That was good" "Thanks for mentioning X", etc. seven
>times, followed by "Oops! That's not how we do it" once.
>
>"Uncle" Ed Poor
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