On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > In recent months I've come across a few mails on this list that only > > contained accusations of trolling. Those are very much not constructive > and > > only serve to antagonize. I know some forums that have an explicit rule > > against this, which results in a ban on second violation. If there is a > > definition of the etiquette for this list somewhere, I suggest having a > > similar rule be added there. Thoughts? > > > > > To be fair, you were proposing that we use a proprietary third party web > site for editing wikimedia wiki pages, which would violate out privacy > policy and break our principles of openness. How was I not to think you > were trolling? My only alternative was to think you've simply lost your > mind. > Or perhaps he merely suggested something that you disagreed with (or didn't understand), without "losing [his] mind" or being a "troll"? I'm a little skeptical about Jeroen's GitHub suggestion, but it seems like something reasonable people can disagree about. Could we not accuse Jeroen or anyone else of being a troll or losing his/her mind for floating an honest proposal? Thanks Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
