On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Bod Notbod <bodnot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The problem is that you misunderstood what he was saying, and then >> harshly criticized what you mistakenly took him to mean. He was asked >> "Can you describe the editorial policy [of wikien.net]?" He replied >> that it would be a relaxed forum for discussion and chitchat, with 'no >> trolling or outing' as a caveat to the relaxed moderating. Nowhere did >> he make a claim about on-wiki (or on-list) problems of trolling or >> outing (outing is making public personal details on someone who edits >> psuedonymously). The background, which you evidently missed, is that >> some non-wiki forums used to discuss Wikipedia expressly allow both >> trolling and outing. > > Fair enough, I do appear to have missed part of the conversation. I apologise. > > Though the intent may be chivalrous, I still think that splintering is > bad for any community. It's hard to keep up with everything that's > going on. > > I'm quite new to the mailing lists and I really hanker for things to > be reined in. For example, I'd prefer that "Foundation" type > announcements were on... well, I was going to say en:wp... but that > would be too hidden from people working on other projects, so maybe on > Meta? And then people could leave comments there.
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