Maybe my example's not too clear, but my point is you can't justify trolling nor excessive arguing with "Hey, let's be nice with him, he's having a bad day". That way the world would be in a massive chaos.
-- Alvaro On 13-02-2009, at 1:46, [email protected] wrote: > And the point here is not about "fighting with a policeman". The > point > is that two people often fight with *each other*, and when the police > are called, they examine both people and provided there are no bruises > or broken bones, they basically tell them to cool it and stay apart. > > They don't take them to prison, and they don't exile them from the > island. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alvaro García <[email protected]> > To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:28 pm > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How to raise the tone of the wiki > > Oh yeah. And if someone, in real life, goes and starts fighting with a > policeman for some reason, well, maybe he's having a bad day, let him > go! > > > -- > Alvaro > > On 13-02-2009, at 1:02, Al Tally <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Marc Riddell >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> Alex, there is nothing "vague" about incivility, you know it when >>> you see >>> it >>> and feel it. And, a person can have as many "bad days" as they >>> want; but on >>> those days they should not be posting on the wiki. Exercise some >>> self-control or take it somewhere else. >>> >>> Marc Riddell >>> >> >> "You know it when you see it" - that's vague enough for me! >> >> Often people don't know they're having a bad day, and may respond >> more >> harshly than they would normally. Not their fault, it's hum > an nature. >> >> -- >> Alex >> (User:Majorly) >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
