Thread:The Clanden/@comment-1370845-20140816003206/@comment-5365119-20140816041439

Absolutely :)

I made every attempt to make that clear in the UDB post. I read it again and again in order to make sure that the language wasn't brash and did not seem like it would force a fiction to go to war. I even looked over the drafts of what a few other people wrote and pushed for one to be rewritten because it was too mocking and ICly offensive in its language. There are a few other things I might have done, but in this instance I think the other side also needs to shoulder some of the blame for jumping to conclusions and not reading the actual messages.

You make a solid point, but I would submit a different answer. I would say it is the burden of the supposedly oppressed to assume good faith and tell the supposed bullies their side of the story in a calm manner, and to listen what the supposed bullies have to say. If the supposed bullies refuse to make a compromise after they have been informed of what they are doing to hurt the other party, then they become -actual- bullies, and now the burden of responsibility is on their shoulders. I would submit that the supposedly oppressed are not victims, but that both sides are the victims of circumstance. It is their joint responsibility to come to a agreement to conquer those circumstances together.

(Have nothing more to say about this point.)

If they are respected and qualified for the job solely for their contribution to the mainspace wiki, why do you argue that their influence must extend to the community and to the fiction universe by extension?