On 04/15/11 5:05 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > So nobody has any idea why things are the way they are? Will I have > to make a drawing?
A *relevant* drawing would be nice. Your offer of a drawing is no less sarcastic than David's about being consulted. We're not talking about elaborate theoretical ramblings purporting to explain how we got where we are. That solves nothing. What I addressed was a class of comments that is neither constructive nor a personal attack, but somewhere in between. Ray > 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 foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l