Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-18 Thread Siebrand Mazeland (WMF)
Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2012 schreef Ryan Lane (rlan...@gmail.com) het volgende: I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I think we should really put effort into coming up with some method of discouraging people from acting this way. I've long advocated for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-18 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 08/17/2012 07:05 AM, MZMcBride wrote: I just don't happen to agree that such behavior (making a mess and then simply walking away) is acceptable in this case. I agree that if Daniel had simply walked away from the mess, it would be right to call him out on it. However, I didn't see any

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-18 Thread Nabil Maynard
On Aug 18, 2012, at 12:55 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote: Isn't the friendly space policy[1] something that can be applied here? If that policy is slightly adapted so that online spaces are also covered, we don't have to invent YACoC[2]. [1]

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread MZMcBride
Brandon Harris wrote: On Aug 16, 2012, at 7:18 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Ryan Lane wrote: What is your plan to clean up the mess you made? I need to call you out on this MZ. This is an incredibly rude way to phrase this. I get that our community tends to accept this kind of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Tyler is right. So let's be positive and read that what's your plan as a generic you, a question to the audience/community, and get the issue fixed all together. I made my proposal/question/suggestion, it's the best I can. Alternatively, of course we could as well spend our energies in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 17 August 2012 02:42, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: What is your plan to clean up the mess you made? I need to call you out on this MZ. This is an incredibly rude way to phrase this. I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I think we should really put

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:05:24AM -0400, MZMcBride wrote: the mess you made. Right there, in that phrase, you have aggressively indicated the following: a) That you believe someone fucked up; b) That you think they're incompetent; c) That you think they're being lazy about it I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Michel Vuijlsteke
On 17 August 2012 14:22, Faidon Liambotis fai...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:05:24AM -0400, MZMcBride wrote: the mess you made. Right there, in that phrase, you have aggressively indicated the following: I didn't intend to indicate most of that, of course. That

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Daniel Zahn
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:05 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: that, I just don't happen to agree that such behavior (making a mess and then simply walking away) is acceptable in this case. - I already apologized for breaking links and yes, it was a mistake to not just replace ALL

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Mark Holmquist
- I warned about broken links myself before, there is a trail for this on RT All other opinions aside, this isn't good enough for a public list--RT tickets aren't public. I don't even have an account there. Some public posting (to the list, on a wiki somewhere) would be much better. That

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
I think it's important to keep things in perspective, and not to overreact. If you were treated this way consistently by someone, and the community defended that person rather than calling them out on their poor behavior, would you continue to volunteer? Do you expect staff to continue working

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Derric Atzrott
Comments inline. I think it's important to keep things in perspective, and not to overreact. If you were treated this way consistently by someone, and the community defended that person rather than calling them out on their poor behavior, would you continue to volunteer? Do you expect

[Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread bawolff
That said, I'm not overly irritated. There are a few links I need to update, but that's doable. Thanks for handling this issue, and for being responsive to the concerns raised. While there's 475 links to wikitech-l archives on en wikipedia. That's more than a few imo. The real concern here is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: That said, I'm not overly irritated. There are a few links I need to update, but that's doable. Thanks for handling this issue, and for being responsive to the concerns raised. While there's 475 links to wikitech-l archives on

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Adjust our procedures for thread deletion so that this situation doesn't occur again. 2. Fix the links, if the effort level isn't insane. I said this on IRC in some form, but I'll repeat it here on the (hopefully

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi all, Roan, thanks for the even-handed treatment on this subject. More inline: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically, in the thread where Ryan called out MZ, the question but what are you doing to fix this? was repeated in some form or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
I'm not complaining about being called out or even bashed for writing overly hostile posts. I've done that a few times and I hate it when I slip up and do it. If I get called out or bashed over that, I've deserved it, and I'll take it. But what pisses me off is that it's apparently impossible

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
«This is like the 27637862487 time that links have been broken due to the exact same action.» I can bear hyperboles but this is a bit excessive, and looks like just another attempt to make this flame bigger: I hope the reality is closer to two or three times in the past couple of years, and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread MZMcBride
Daniel Zahn wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:05 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: that, I just don't happen to agree that such behavior (making a mess and then simply walking away) is acceptable in this case. - I already apologized for breaking links and yes, it was a mistake to not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: «This is like the 27637862487 time that links have been broken due to the exact same action.» I can bear hyperboles but this is a bit excessive, and looks like just another attempt to make this flame bigger: I hope

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread MZMcBride
Ryan Lane wrote: What seems to have happened here, is that one action has broken many (all?) links to Mailman archives. That, in my book, is a mess. The question was, to that someone who made the mess, what his plan was to clean it up. Again with the phrasing. Cut it out. Sincerely, I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread MZMcBride
Ryan Lane wrote: Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? [...] I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I think we should really put effort into coming up with some method of discouraging people from acting this way. I've long advocated for adopting

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
Sincerely, I'm still a little unclear what phrasing you object to here. Just to be perfectly clear, it's the use of the word mess, right? If so, I can make note not to use that word going forward on this list. It may be a regional thing, but where I'm from, when a lot of things get broken,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-17 Thread Ryan Lane
I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I think we should really put effort into coming up with some method of discouraging people from acting this way. I've long advocated for adopting toolserver-l's mailing list etiquette guideline on all Wikimedia mailing

[Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-16 Thread Ryan Lane
What is your plan to clean up the mess you made? I need to call you out on this MZ. This is an incredibly rude way to phrase this. I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I think we should really put effort into coming up with some method of discouraging people from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-16 Thread MZMcBride
Ryan Lane wrote: What is your plan to clean up the mess you made? I need to call you out on this MZ. This is an incredibly rude way to phrase this. I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I think we should really put effort into coming up with some method of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-16 Thread Brandon Harris
On Aug 16, 2012, at 7:18 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Ryan Lane wrote: What is your plan to clean up the mess you made? I need to call you out on this MZ. This is an incredibly rude way to phrase this. I get that our community tends to accept this kind of behavior, but I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can we make an acceptable behavior policy? (was: Re: Mailman archives broken?)

2012-08-16 Thread Tyler Romeo
This is (hopefully) a community. When somebody fucks something up, they own up to it and somebody fixes it (sometimes the person who did it fixes it, sometimes somebody else). The proper way to phrase it would have been So how can we go about fixing this?. By saying that you're not putting one