+1 On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Dave Mabry <dma...@mich.com> wrote:
> Jay West wrote on 2/6/2016 11:51 AM: > >> I had already turned on emergency moderation mode to try and stem the tide >> of this escalating further. I had also already emailed a few people >> off-list >> about this, which is primarily how it should be handled. Those who should >> have been corrected... were. Quietly. >> >> I'm rather tired of (a very few) people commenting "oh, this list is so >> much >> smaller than other forums" or "there's such a low SNRatio here" or >> "Everyone >> here is unfriendly (or things like that)". Screw all of that. I submit >> that >> while this list may be small, it has the best content and expertise, far >> better than others (I've looked). I submit that while the SNRatio gets off >> track once in a great while, I've seen that happen elsewhere, and at least >> as often if not more. Perhaps some should use their technical expertise to >> study the function of the "delete" key. Quite frankly I don't think it >> happens here all that often. Unfriendly? Perhaps there are a few that are >> brisque at times. On the one hand - Guess what... that's life. In any >> crowd >> there's always a few grumpy old men (of which I am one - especially at the >> moment), and socially well-adjusted people should learn how to deal with >> it >> and get along. On the other hand - That doesn't mean I don't correct those >> that need correcting (and I did) .. but I really don't need to hear the >> whining. It seems that there are one or two people that state they don't >> want to participate because of one or more of the above... yet they stay >> here solely to voice that opinion. Odd. >> >> J >> > > Jay, > > Don't let it get you down. In any population, even a small one, there are > going to be people in both tails of the normal distribution. I get pretty > quick on the delete key when one of those tails starts complaining about > this list. I greatly enjoy and thank you for the work you put into it. > > Thank you! > > Dave > > -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
