Well, short of things like homicide, we can tolerate it for a day, and try to fix up the damage & counsel the offender. What we should stop tolerating is when it becomes repeated consistently over many months or years.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Alvaro García <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
