Ryan Lane wrote:
What is your
plan to clean up the mess you made?
I need to call you out on this MZ. This is an incredibly rude way to
phrase this.
I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I
think we should really put effort into coming up with some method of
discouraging people from acting this way.
What would have been a politer way to phrase the question? I originally
wrote "when are you going to clean up the mess you made?", but I rewrote it.
The answer can be as simple as "apologize and move on." It's a little
unclear to me what the extent of the damage is, but I don't think it's
unreasonable if someone actively breaks something to expect them to deal
with (or at least mitigate) the consequences, particularly if it's within
their power to do so. I hit this issue at
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Deprecating_inline_styles> before it
was mentioned on the mailing list. I read Daniel's reply as "shit happens"
(which is a perfectly acceptable response sometimes). But given the open
editing nature of the sites primarily affected and the fact that the sites
track external link usage, I'm not sure it's out-of-line to suggest that the
person (or people) who made the mess of the links clean it up. If it was
out-of-line, I apologize.
Regarding an acceptable behavior policy, what did you have in mind?
MZMcBride