[governance] On acceptable and unacceptable criticism

[McTim]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> [with IGC coordinator hat on]
>
> Dear all
>
> Please keep in mind what it takes to have an environment where
> constructive discussion takes place.
>
> It is acceptable and in fact good and valuable to have postings
> that others disagree with. The same applies to postings that
> express such disagreement, and give reasons for the disagreement,
> etc. Some postings fall in both of those good categories, for example
> when someone characterizes and criticizes something that is in his
> view an unfortunately trend in civil society, that is legitimate
> criticism, and at the same time probably others will disagree.


So if one notes a trend towards thought-policeism on the part of the
co-co's that is ok according to the above para, but not ok according
to the below para?


>
> On the other hand we have also had a different kind of postings:
> Postings that do not seek to move a debate forward, but only make
> disparaging remarks about a viewpoint that is disagreed with. Such
> postings violate the rule against “sequences of messages by one or more
> participants that cause an IGC list to become a hostile environment”.
> This kind of postings is particularly harmful when directed against
> minority viewpoints (likely with conscious or unconscious objective to
> prevent the effective expression of those viewpoints) or when directed
> against actions of a coordinator (actions of coordinators can be
> legitimately discussed and --if that is desired-- appealed, but
> disparaging remarks about actions of a coordinator are just as much
> against the posting rules as personal attacks against anyone else.)

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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