Re: [half-PROCTORS] Re: [gentoo-dev] Bye Gentoo!

[Wernfried Haas]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:22:31AM -0400, Chrissy Fullam wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:01:07AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >> Sad to see one of the few remaining sane people leave.
>
> > I take this as a compliment to Bryan, but then still you are implying
> > that most of the people here are not sane.

> Amne, I do value your opinion but in this case, I respectfully
> disagree.

Fair enough.

> I do not see the harm in what Ciaran said above to be any greater than
> another person stating "sad to see one of the best/key/etc leave" - by
> your standards that would imply the rest of us are less than best.

That would be a positive statement because it would imply the other
people are normal, and Bryan was one of the best, which is a positive
statement.
Saying "one of the few remaining sane" people is a generally negative
statement that is judgemental towards the whole community, which is
what the the CoC/proctors are supposed to proactively discourage.

I think much worse things have been said on this list before, but
still statements like that are the basis of a poisonous
environment. All i was asking ciaranm is to be nice to people.

> Ciaran may be controversial at times, but I think we can see that he was
> paying Bryan a compliment.

I even admitted it was meant as a compliment, see above.

Hope that clears things up a bit.

cheers,
	Wernfried

PS: If anyone feels tempted to reply to this, please take it to the
gentoo-proctors list instead of -dev, we're getting OT here. ;-)

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