[WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think this can be regarded as any kind of permanent solution.
> Walking away would have done nothing in my case because I was the one being
> hounded.

I'm actually not familiar with what happened in your case, but I did
include the caveat of "not allowing yourself to be *bullied* away".
The point being that you can walk away from a flashpoint and calmly
make your point later. Walking away is not "do nothing" but "don't act
in anger", and "sometimes its really not worth it". The latter I would
apply to intractable naming disputes. The amount of effort and debate
that gets expended on naming debates is, in most cases, just not worth
it. Cost-benefit analysis and all that.

Carcharoth