[governance] Discussions, negotiations, argument mapping

[Daniel Pimienta]

+1 to Andrea.

Meta-discussions are normally the best way to solve discussions 
getting polluted by non said tensions and problems.
In that case, the meta discussion is going the wrong way and getting 
in a dangerous loop, pushing, against their will, the co-co's, to 
justify every move,
which in turn is feeding more meta-discussions in an expansive spiral 
which start blurring the matters at stake.

Please everybody push the RESET button, stop meta-discussions, and 
focus on the discussion and the arguments!
Please also take a restrictive definition of "ad-hominem attack" and 
keep cool, paying tribute to cultural diversity and its diverse ways 
to express.
Please everybody give a break to co-co's who need,  like good 
referees in a footbball game, to be the most discrete possible to be efficient.

Something I used as an efficient tool as a moderator which may apply 
or not in this charter, is the possibility
for the moderator to write privately to the author of a contribution 
kept in hold and ask kindly the person to
rephrase a piece which could be mistaken as at-hominem attack of a 
flame prone sentence.
Most of the time people agree to change a twist of expression and the 
flow keeps all right without public discussions.
If they dont a large part of the heat is consumed in a private 
discussion with the moderator and not in public.
And this has nothing to do with transparency... it is more a question 
of diplomacy :-).


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