So nobody has any idea why things are the way they are? Will I have to make a drawing?
Virgilio A. P. Machado (Vapmachado) At 00:43 16-04-2011, you wrote: >It is a valid point about David's comment. Maybe us old hands have >become too accustomed to David's sarcasm. Other than that it seems to >have been a conversation where one person was offside to everybody else. >I've been there before and know how uncomfortable it can become. The >insensitive comment was certainly not essential to the main topic of the >thread, but if in raising it the only result would be to have David >personally change his ways nothing of significance to the community >would have been accomplished. One person would have been fixed while >the rest of us could go smugly on believing that that was the end of it. > >The continuum from valid on-topic comments, through insensitive sarcasm >to outright personal attacks is not made up of discrete and easily >identifiable steps. Where is the middle ground between insensitivity >and hypersensitivity. > >Ray _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
