[OpenID] [xri-comment] My Feedback for XRD Vrsion 1.0

[Peter Williams]

You should read  it as the author has one personality when writing and  
another on person.

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 13, 2009, at 10:43 AM, John Panzer <jpanzer at google.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:14 PM, SitG Admin <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com 
> > wrote:
> Maybe the OpenID board should consider enforcing some basic rules of  
> civility and professionalism on this list.
>
> As much as I value civility, I disapprove of the authoritarian  
> approach to moderation. -1; community-enforced rules are more in  
> keeping with UCI principles, too.
>
> In the spirit of community enforced rules, I'd like to say that we  
> should have, and I believe we do have, community norms against ad  
> hominem attacks and slurs.  I am seeing more and more discussion  
> that involves these insults lately.  My style is to be very thick  
> skinned, try to provide a polite example, and allow for the  
> possibility that the person means well but perhaps isn't writing in  
> their first language, or doesn't know how to take the extra  
> precautions needed in an text-only form of communication to avoid  
> the appearance of rudeness.  This does not mean that I like the tone  
> of the conversation.
>
> Unfortunately, not addressing the tone has a bad effect of keeping  
> others observing the conversation from joining in; nobody wants to  
> spend extra time on this or being attacked.  It's a chilling effect  
> that we don't want to have.  I want to welcome all who wish to  
> contribute to the conversation, and do not want them to fear being  
> personally attacked by doing so.
>
> Peter, I have to say I'm not quite sure what you were saying above  
> in your last response to Santosh.  Some parts of it seemed quite  
> rude to me though and I understand why Eran would react the way he  
> did.  Please take this as friendly feedback.
>
> I hope that we can take this as a warning, be more careful and  
> considerate in communication, and keep it polite while still having  
> a good and spirited technical discussion.
>
> -John
>
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