in reply to Re^7: Moderation of Open Source projects
in thread Moderation of Open Source projects

You are right that an argument similar to this one caused me to write this meditation - and more accurately the fact that people start using "typographical flourish" or other pure rhetorics (like suggesting that I am immature just for thinking about possible ways to improve communication in projects) to force their points. This destroys the conversation, it polarizes and it closes people ears.

I don't agree with the way you are argumenting but I really appreciate your critics and this conversation is important for me.

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Re^9: Moderation of Open Source projects
by stvn (Monsignor) on Feb 07, 2008 at 21:16 UTC

    Okay, while the glue on my straw men is drying I thought I would make one quick comment.

    ... or other pure rhetorics (like suggesting that I am immature just for thinking about possible ways to improve communication in projects) ...

    I never meant to imply that you were the immature party in these discussions. A mature discussion requires mature people, and I have seen it time and again when just a single troll enters the discussion and what are otherwise very reasonable and mature people get sucked in by the troll-bait and it all spirals down from there.

    And really I am not objecting to your desire to improve the communications in projects, only your proposed blanket solutions.

    -stvn
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