Re: The list discourse (was: list moderation)

[Thompson, David]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 1:54 PM Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> wrote:
> > So you ousted the moderators that added you as moderators?  How lovely.  
> > The discourse here has gotten considerably worse since.  Surely a 
> > coincidence.
>
> FWIW, I do not think so, on the contrary, Iʼm pleased to see even a small 
> shift in a discourse from @ludo@gnu.org’s and @andreas@enge.fr’s “letʼs make 
> GNU more welcoming to new contributors by imposing ‘contracts’ on them” to 
> @gameonlinux@redchan.it’s “letʼs make GNU more welcoming to new contributors 
> by reducing the burden of formalities on them”, however inappropriate the 
> rest of his remarks are.

Ignoring the blatantly incorrect summary of what Ludovic and Andreas
have said, I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say that "I prefer the
toxic discourse guy" is not a great argument in favor of the changes
in the discourse here.

- Dave