Brian J Mingus wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@verizon.net>wrote: > >> Brian J Mingus wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@verizon.net >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Can we discuss something else, rather than having the list get >>>> sidetracked into geopolitical debates that aren't at all useful to the >>>> work we do? Aside from fantasizing about a share of the prize money, >>>> even the original subject was not especially on-topic for discussion >>>> here. Thank you. >>>> >>>> --Michael Snow >>>> >>> Yes, hardly anything is relevant for discussion on this list anymore. It >>> happens either on internal WMF mailing lists or IRL. >>> >> It's not that those discussions wouldn't be relevant to have on this >> list, and periodically people try and encourage others to move them to a >> more public setting. It's that when this list continues to show a >> tendency for conversation to degenerate, as it just did, then it's quite >> hard to persuade people that they should want to have their discussions >> here. >> >> --Michael Snow >> > You believe that my reply to Tim is degenerate? That is offensive. > Don't imagine for yourself things that I didn't say, and try to not take it so personally. We mostly need to improve our discussion overall, not remove an individual posting or poster. That's what I mean by degenerating. As I indicated earlier, in this case the seeds were sown in the choice of the subject to begin with. I happened to reply to your message because it was the most recent when I wrote. It could just as easily have been Marc's or Tim's.
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