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On 15 Oct 2011, at 23:14, Rich Hickey wrote:
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> Your last bit confuses me. You certainly are making something
> wonderful in, and for, Clojure with Overtone. I don't know where I
> said or implied anything about the d
On 15 Oct 2011, at 23:14, Rich Hickey wrote:
> Your last bit confuses me. You certainly are making something
> wonderful in, and for, Clojure with Overtone. I don't know where I
> said or implied anything about the discussions being only about making
> tools or solving hard problems.
My apologie
It's difficult to have a policy of "positive opinions only" without
engendering non-productive discussions about censorship etc.
The main message is one of consideration. You might have positive
opinions about say, music, and I might be interested in them, but our
discussing music here wouldn't be
Devlin,
I totally agree with you :-) I read the core of the post in a similar fashion
and I respect and agree with the general notion. However, my perception of the
tone of the message was that it felt slightly 'anti-opinion' whereas I believe
that constructive positive opinion has an extremely
Aaron, I can't speak for Rich but I don't think I read the original post the
same way you did.
I think the big point being made (and one I agree with) is that we should try,
to the best of our ability, to keep our focus on the constructive. Diatribes
and/or opinion pieces are less constructive,
While I understand and respect the importance of focussing discussions to the
making of things, surely there is more to a community communication substrate
than this sole category of topic.
Do these guidelines, therefore, attempt preclude threads such as the discussion
on the possible impact o
This is just a reminder. While in general our communication here is very good,
occasionally it goes astray.
These mailing lists are run by, and for, people who make things. Most messages
should have one of these forms:
I made something - here is my contribution
I am trying to use the thing some
