[WikiEN-l] Moderation on this mailing list

[Stephen Bain]

On 2/20/07, Mark Ryan <ultrablue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/02/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm with Oskar. If they call various administrators abusive they should be
> > able to back that up.
>
> Ah, but the emails in question contained diffs which they claimed
> shewed that the administrators in question were "abusive". Should
> those have been let through?

Calling someone "abusive" is still an ad hominem statement. Rather
than saying "Admin X is abusive!1!" the person should say "Admin X
engaged in behaviour on Y page that seemed abusive to me, here's some
diffs..."

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com