chromatic said:
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 10:54:33 Salve J Nilsen wrote:
- Salve, worried that the next step is to paint pink ponies and rainbows
all over CPAN.
Hey look, a slippery slope argument combined with the false dilemma
fallacy!
Yes. Good catch! Happy to see someone's caring about logical fallacies. ;)
Salve, there really are more possibilities in the world besides either:
1) Being complete, irredeemable, raging jerks to volunteers
2) Remaking the world of Perl into Hello Kitty Island Adventure: Riding
Camp: Their Senior Year
Yep. This is my point too. I'd like to see a world that treats volunteers
with respect, but doesn't deny them negative feedback just because someone
thinks $negative_feedback == $personal_attack .
You're a smart guy. I'm sure you can see that there's nuance between
those two positions, and I'm sure that once you do, you'll see that
absolutely no one has seriously argued for #2.
I do see several people argue that we must avoid 1) at seemingly any
cost, with the result that useful services get 404'd for no other reason
than "politeness".
(Kinda reminds me of the terrorism hyteria going on everywhere, but that's
a side note. Never mind that. :-P)
- Salve
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