FYI, and to finish this matter off for the list:
"Not on my watch. I have no access to past conversations so cannot comment on the conversation you say you have had with list admins in the past..." says Asaf.
I furnished Asaf with verbatim copies of the relevant emails that he may be confident it was not merely a "conversations I "say" I have had."
It is accurate though that I erred by recalling that the list moderator suggested I was "trolling" when he actually used the word "baiting."
Trillium Corsage
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:20 AM Trillium Corsage trillium2014@yandex.com wrote:
As always, he is (and other moderated users are) welcome to submit posts to the list before then,
and
if the posts are respectful and on-topic, they would be let through.
That has not been my experience. In fact the last time I sent a coherently-explained, completely civil, on-topic,and time-sensitive email to the list, it was held by a moderator who:
A) Suggested I was "trolling the WMF" (is trolling an entire 100-person-plus organization even possible?)
B) Faulted it on bases including that I used the phrase "couple days" (i.e. "this might take a couple days") rather than his preferred formulation "couple *of* days"
C) Put it up for a consensus vote among the other list moderators.
I see the list has some new moderators, but I figure odds are this email will be stopped as well.
Not on my watch. I have no access to past conversations so cannot comment on the conversation you say you have had with list admins in the past, but I will state for the record that I think grammatical imperfections (real or perceived) are absolutely not an acceptable reason to withhold a message from the list. The vast majority of subscribers are not native speakers of English, and even if they were, language snobbery is an anti-pattern for constructive communication.
Re trolling, I am personally very wary of applying that label, and lean toward avoiding it in all but the most extreme cases. Neither a favorable opinion of the WIkimedia Foundation, nor a real-world identity, are a prerequisite for posting on this list. It is perfectly acceptable and on-topic to question or criticize the Wikimedia Foundation on this list, so long as one adheres to basic rules of discourse: remaining civil, concise, on-topic, and respectful in the face of disagreement; avoiding repetition, aggression, and irrelevant hobby-horses; etc.
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