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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