[WikiEN-l] [Redacted] complaining Was: Admins who do not have email this user enabled (list inside)

[Silas Snider]

On 9/13/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > On 9/12/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> Erm, people may prefer to be contacted directly
> >> before being listed behind their backs.  Okay,
> >> so the Google ratings of the list are not that high,
> >> considering it is hidden from Google, but still...
> >> there are mirrors not hidden from Google.
>
> on 9/13/07 2:28 PM, Matthew Brown at morven at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > If the normal amount of communication and
> > discussion needed to work on this project is too much and bothers your
> > sense of privacy, kindly find something else to do.
> >
> Matthew,
>
> Enough is enough! If you had been sitting across from this person would you
> have said this exact same thing to their face?
>
> And, how on earth does "kindly find something else to do" advance a
> discussion?
>
> Marc Riddell

Marc:
    I don't know about Matthew, but I definitely would (and do) say
things like this to someone's face. There is nothing really 'mean'
about the statement. Furthermore, the whole point of saying something
like this is not to further a discussion, but to convey the idea that
there is no reason to continue a discussion about something so
completely trivial. Not everything has to be discussed to the ground.

Sincerely,
Silas Snider

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