There exists a fine line between being unintentionally rude, but helpful and purposely putting someone down. -- H
On 25 January 2016 at 12:07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/01/2016 2:45 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > >> I disagree, and would argue that fails to take a systemic view of this >> kind of behaviour. >> >> If individual commentators are acerbic and are only privately >> reprimanded, from the perspective of everyone else it looks like the >> acerbic reply was A-OK. Someone said something unnecessarily hostile >> and the response was...nada. That creates an environment where there >> are no clear examples of what crosses a line and no clear expectation >> that moderation is even a thing that happens. Indeed, I was shocked to >> discover this list _was_ moderated precisely because all I see is >> people being mean and nothing much else happening. >> > > Why would you bother to read it if that's all you see? I think there are > examples of posts here which are not at all helpful, and others which are > rude, but the majority are actually helpful (even some of the rude ones). > > Duncan Murdoch > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- OpenPGP: https://hasan.d8u.us/gpg.key Sent from my mobile device Envoyé de mon portable [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.