Whataboutism at its best? John Oliver: https://youtu.be/1ZAPwfrtAFY?t=6m2s
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Andy Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/11/2017 22:52, Clifford Snow wrote: > > > Frederik, > I think we are all thankful for the newsletter. And believe they are free > to publish to their own standards. However, because they use OSM resources > by publishing on our mailing lists they need respect our values. I don't > think asking a publication to be respectful to individuals is asking too > much. > > > Clifford, > Being "respectful" is a two-way street. This is a situation that's been > going on for almost exactly a year now. During that time this individual > has shown contempt for the OSM community, including on occasion telling > outright untruths. Conversations with him were very repectful at first > (conducted in changeset discussions rather than on mailing lists), but it > gradually became clear that any statements such as "I have already stopped > changing any objects except" were simply worthless. At some point you have > to call a lie a lie, and I can't think of a way of doing that without > "being disrespectful". > > Also, I have to object to the use of "they" and "our" in your comment. > The OSM Weekly is produced by and for people from the OSM community, > exactly the same community that the mailing lists are run by and for. The > use of that sort of divisive language ("they") reminds me of a visit to > South Africa back in the 90s, and not in a good way. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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