[WikiEN-l] New site for meta-discussion

[Nathan]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that was absolutely uncalled for - you should apologize to
>> Jake for your comments.
>
> I'll happily apologise. But what was wrong in my assessment that
> starting a new community is the solution to any perceived problems
> either here or on wiki or other places where we can discuss things?
>

The problem is that you misunderstood what he was saying, and then
harshly criticized what you mistakenly took him to mean. He was asked
"Can you describe the editorial policy [of wikien.net]?" He replied
that it would be a relaxed forum for discussion and chitchat, with 'no
trolling or outing' as a caveat to the relaxed moderating. Nowhere did
he make a claim about on-wiki (or on-list) problems of trolling or
outing (outing is making public personal details on someone who edits
psuedonymously). The background, which you evidently missed, is that
some non-wiki forums used to discuss Wikipedia expressly allow both
trolling and outing.

Nathan