- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:06:32 -0400
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- CC: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, www-tag@w3.org, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
On 4/19/2013 6:18 AM, Daniel Glazman wrote: >> Please don't argue from authority again and I won't mock you. > > Urgh. Can please the TAG Chair say this kind of things should not > happen in this list again? Thanks. It would indeed be helpful if everyone tried a little harder to be both polite and respectful in this discussion. Obviously, any given commentator (including me, of course) may well be truly "wrong" in something they advocate, but in addition to all the obvious reasons for trying to keep the discussion polite and constructive, this needs to be a list in which we welcome the perspectives of people who really do have differing experiences and needs. I think we do better when someone claims to have a controversial need that we discuss respectfully in the spirit of "Really? I'm surprised and I need to understand" as opposed to "I know better -- trust me, you're nuts." Experience with the TAG has been that we do best when we're willing to be surprised and learn from the perspectives of others who work in a variety of environments and who may have differing needs. I am not directing this comment to anyone in particular. I think there's some blame to go around for the argumentative tone of this discussion, but if we could all focus on a bit more mutual respect that would be helpful. Thank you. Noah
Received on Friday, 19 April 2013 16:07:01 UTC