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Travis Mason-Bushman stated for the record:
On Jan 20, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Sean Barrett wrote:
Since the statement you attribute to me has
absolutely no resemblance to
anything I actually wrote, it's clear that you are only seeking to fan
the partisan flames here.
Excuse me? My quote is a *direct quote* from your earlier e-mail.
Unaltered and unedited. Are you now retracting your statement?
You wrote: "I would like to think that -- really I would -- but two
years on the ArbComm have turned me into a bitter, cynical, twisted
shadow of my former cheery, optimistic, happy-go-lucky self. Have
nominations painlessly canceled, with no repercussions at all, would
make the deletionists /more/ likely to nominate stuff for deletion, not
less."
You proposed to form a committee whose sole purpose would be to punish
"deletionists" by banning them from deletion pages. That is inarguably a
hostile act that will do nothing but embitter those you target and make
them more determined to oppose *anything* you present as being the work
of, as you said, a "bitter, cynical, twisted" person. You could have
made a rational suggestion, like geni's "So your article has been
nominated for deletion" page, which I have already worked to improve, or
kat's call for more speedy keeps. Those are both rational, logical
ideas. Creating an anti-deletionist bureaucracy is nothing but spite.
-FCYTravis
ONE: The straw man you were attacking, as you know, was "Lord knows
those evil deletionists must be PUNISHED! Drilled into the ground,
pounded into dust, made never to return."
TWO: As for the "bitter, cynical" remark -- is the whole subject of
humor unfamiliar to you, or just the sarcasm subset of it?
THREE: Your question would be taken as rhetorical by the vast majority
of people, but a lack of answer of course allows you to read anything
you want into my silence, so the explicit answer to "Are you now
retracting your statement?" is "No."
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