On Feb 18, 2014 4:12 PM, "C. Scott Ananian" cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
There are multiple readings of "Assume Good Faith". I think pi zero was pointing out that it can be used to justify 'violent' communications. "Oh, sure, it might seem like I just punched you in the nose, but you must AGF and respond as I were just trying to kill a mosquito that happened to have landed there." David Gerard's "stupidity" reading of AGF would be, "...respond as if you just clumsily knocked into my nose, since clumsiness is more common than malice". Both variants of the assumption can be abused by malicious actors.
Well i agree with your point, i think malicious actors are pretty rare in our community.
Submitting a (useful) patch is hard work. This cuts down on the number of trolls significantly.
-bawolff