[wg-review] Civility and process

[Greg Burton <sidna@feedwriter.com>]

Dear WG members,

It seems to me the group is drifting again, and this is a reminder that we 
need to focus on DNSO issues, not overall theories of government. Please, 
let's retire the threads "A Reply to Miles B Whitener" and "The owners of 
the internet must manage it". If you wish to respond to content relevent to 
this group from a post in those threads, please give your response a 
descriptive subject, and focus on that content only. The suggestions for 
helping us focus when you post are repeated below:

1. Deal with the current content, not the person who said it, or their past 
history. Dealing in personalities destroys the foundation of consensus.

2. Ignore personality content from anyone who doesn't comply with 1. (very 
difficult to do, I know, but utterly necessary)

3. Attempt to avoid assuming that person X is motivated by agenda Y. Ignore 
any response that attempts to tell you what someone else is REALLY doing, 
or what the REAL agenda is.

4. When replying to a message that contains both personality content and 
productive content, deal just with the productive content and delete the 
personality content from your reply.

5. Use the thread headers originally proposed by YJ when making an original 
post, with or without the grouping modification I proposed.

6. Ask ourselves before we post "Does this comment facilitate or impede the 
consensus process?" and "Is this post relevant to the thread topic?"

Thanks for your cooperation,
Greg

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