Re: Critique available
[email protected] (Dan Sugalski)
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At 09:30 PM 11/3/00 +0000, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:42:34PM -0500, Stephen P. Potter wrote: > > Not to mention "revisionist history". There were any number of uncourteous > > voices during the RFC process. > >Exactly. Dan, weren't you the very person who had to tell people on more >than one occasion to grow up and behave like adults? Yup. And, amazingly enough, they did. :-P This is a rather important thing, as community building is concerned. Explicit expectations of behaviour are a *good* thing, assuming it doesn't get tyrannical. I'm not talking about the occasional outburst--everyone has bad days, and sooner or later just about everyone's going to flip out in public. (I fully expect at some point I shall go embarrassingly ballistic for all to see :) That's OK. But what we as a community should do is decide, generally or exactly, what is and isn't acceptable. "Act politely and professionally" is certainly a good one. "Behave better than my 5 year old son" is another. "Assume the other party's not a native english speaker" is a good third. Anyone think others are needed? Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [email protected] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk