This is a pretty good example of some of that unhelpful behavior I
mentioned...
There is a toxic habit that's far too common on this mailing list to
speculate about bad intentions and then state them as if they are fact. It
serves no purpose other than to divide and denigrate and has no place in a
community-oriented project.
On Fri, May 24, 2019, 4:55 AM Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 09:56, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote:
>
>>
>> I think if you investigate, you will find that invariably such complaints
>> (including the predictably, invariably going to be used,"toxic"), originate
>> with people that didn't get their way, or associates of them ("didn't get
>> their way" as in: there was a substantial body of opinions that disagreed
>> with what ever they were proposing).
>>
>
> And some of those people will then go on to say that a particular forum
> [where nobody agreed with
> them, because everybody else is marching out of step] needs to be replaced
> with a different type
> of forum. A moderated forum. It is never explicitly stated, but may be
> inferred, that they'd like
> those moderators to be people who agree with them, or for they,
> themselves, to actually be
> the moderators.
>
> For bonus points, they may state (without providing names or evidence)
> that people on the
> forum accuse them of acting in bad faith. Which may be true, even though
> I don't recall
> seeing that particular accusation on this list while I've been here. Or
> it may be subtly
> poisoning the well: those who disagree with me are obviously acting in bad
> faith because they
> accuse me of acting in bad faith [but no evidence of such accusations is
> provided].
>
> --
> Paul
>
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