[governance] Need to end the throwing of verbal stones (was Re: Final composition...)

[Izumi AIZU]

Thanks Norbert,  big +1.

Verbal stones are sometimes much larger than the one who throws.
What is writer's own intention may not be same as the receiver's or others'.

izumi


2013/4/1 Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>

> +1
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>
>> [with IGC coordinator hat on]
>>
>> David Allen <David_Allen_AB63 at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > More generally - instead of verbal stones hurled back and forth,
>> > useful discussion turns on finding common questions where there will
>> > be civil discourse about differences.  As has been noted, that has
>> > been in short supply.  Coordinators please note.
>>
>> Thanks, David, for posting this reminder. :-)
>>
>> I would add that it is very difficult if not impossible to have such
>> a civil discourse in a climate of personal attacks. These really need
>> to be stopped first.
>>
>> There have been quite a few postings recently that can not be
>> reasonably understood as legitimately questioning viewpoints and
>> practices, but which are clearly personal attacks.
>>
>> According to the Charter of this Caucus [1], personal attacks are not
>> acceptable, and it is a responsibility of the coordinators to take
>> action in reaction to such attacks being made, according to be a
>> specified procedure. In view of also having other responsibilities,
>> needing to coordinate between the coordinators who are in opposite time
>> zones, feeling a need to exercise the utmost fairness possible, and the
>> need to handle things in an "appeal-proof" matter, quick action in this
>> regard is not always immediately possible.
>> [1] http://igcaucus.org/charter
>>
>> But I can assure you and everyone that Sala and I are aware of our
>> responsibility in this regard. It now looks likely that we will now
>> unfortunately have to take, at least in some instances, the matter
>> beyond the point of "formal private warnings". This shouldn't be done
>> without coordination, or in a hurry though. So a bit of patience may
>> be required in regard to the need for execution of the steps foreseen
>> in the Charter for this kind of situation.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>>
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>>      governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>> To be removed from the list, visit:
>>      http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
>>
>> For all other list information and functions, see:
>>      http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
>> To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>>      http://www.igcaucus.org/
>>
>> Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
>>
>>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>      governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> To be removed from the list, visit:
>      http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
>
> For all other list information and functions, see:
>      http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
> To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>      http://www.igcaucus.org/
>
> Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
>
>


-- 
                     >> Izumi Aizu <<
Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo
Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
Japan
www.anr.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20130404/0d25d669/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t