On 1/30/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 1/30/07 7:00 PM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
People who are good editors, but take other people's statement to heart, can get so upset that they no longer want to work in WP, and that's certainly a loss to the project. So the civility rule is partly about backing down to a level that reduces hurt and misunderstandings across a broad range of individuals.
Isn't this a rather paternalistic attitude? "We are censoring this for your protection" is the first reason given by powers that would be.
There's censorship, and then there's a social contract.
Civility should be about the social contract... we agree not to abuse each other in the course of discussing things about which we may disagree greatly.
If someone shows up who refuses to buy in to the social contract, then we can ask them to behave or in extremis to leave. No forum which is a complete anarchy survives.