Re: aha, now I think I see

2014-04-17 Thread John Karahalis
Might I suggest you use the term "some gay people" instead? The term "gays" or "the gays" implies that gay people are more monolithic than they actually are. -- John Karahalis Mozilla openjck.com - Original Message - > From: "Big Fred" > To: mozilla-governa...@lists.mozilla.org >

Re: Engaging the public

2014-04-17 Thread g41424
On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 7:49:36 PM UTC-6, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > I think implementing a new system to address the recent situation is a > > waste of time and effort. Issues like this one are incredibly rare. > > And if you don't want to read the critical emails to governance it > > does

Re: Engaging the public

2014-04-17 Thread Desiree
On 4/15/2014 12:05 PM, Majken Connor wrote: First, of any new members of the list are reading this, this is not at all meant as a suggestion that you're not welcome here. The governance list is the best place we have for discussing the current issues, but it's really not a good place to engage t

Re: Engaging the public

2014-04-17 Thread Till Schneidereit
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:33 PM, wrote: > On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 7:49:36 PM UTC-6, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > > I think implementing a new system to address the recent situation is a > > > > waste of time and effort. Issues like this one are incredibly rare. > > > > And if you don't want to

Re: Engaging the public

2014-04-17 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Hi Desiree, As you may have noticed, the Mozilla blog never allows comments. I'm pretty sure it never has. For conversations, we have dozens of mailing-lists/newsgroups/forums that are better places, including this one. And we suspect that Discourse would be an even better place. Personally, I'd

Re: Engaging the public

2014-04-17 Thread Chris Peterson
On 4/17/14, 2:59 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: As you may have noticed, the Mozilla blog never allows comments. I'm pretty sure it never has. The Mozilla blog should just remove its comment section. That the comment section exists but is (always) disabled causes confusion or people to s