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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Oleksiy<br>
<br>
You raise a number of good points which I fully agree with, but,
welcome the brave new world of the Internet and Social-Media, it
should be applied to communications in a group as a whole.<br>
<br>
Looking back at the thread, I'm sure multiple of the participants
were not aware that it was only part of a larger web of
communication some of which goes back to the first half of this
year, contains old bones that are still being picked, stuff that
the OSMF was not involved in at all and parallel threads on
twitter, irc and other social media (and now svn trac). <br>
<br>
You simply can not assume that you are getting the full picture
and are participating on a single continuous thread of
communication between all participants.<br>
<br>
Nothing we can do about this, but I suspect the utility of
osmf-talk as a semi-private mailing list has outlived itself given
that the model actively provokes parallel comms. I would suggest
either doing away with it completely or scoping it strictly to
OSMF business. <br>
<br>
There are other reasons to believe that reasoned discourse is not
going to work in an environment where you can simply go off in a
huff and have your own public platform with hand picked audience
that will +1 everything you say.<br>
<br>
Simon<br>
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Am 30.09.2014 11:42, schrieb Oleksiy Muzalyev:<br>
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Good morning,<br>
<br>
I noticed several obvious communication errors in the discussions
of recent days:<br>
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- Usage of rude words. In verbal communication people can see that
a speaker smiles, can feel the charisma of a person, but in a
written communication they see just a rude word and can
misinterpret the message. So it would be better to avoid rude
words in an e-mail. Polite words, hard arguments.<br>
<br>
- The very moment a participant starts to use an impolite harsh
tone, the argument is lost. Ungraciousness is a sign of weakness.
<br>
<br>
- If one receives an e-mail with uncivil undertones, the best
strategy is not to get involved into a rough exchange, not to
declare "I go away" in a childlike manner, but to answer in a
short, technocratic, businesslike way. Completely ignoring the
discourteous part of a message is a very strong answer in itself.
<i>"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."</i> <i>Josh
Billings<br>
<br>
-</i> A French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and
philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote: <span id="result_box" class=""
lang="en"><span class="hps">"I would have</span> <span
class="hps">written</span> <span class="hps">a shorter</span>
<span class="hps">letter, but I</span> <span class="hps">do not</span>
<span class="hps">have time" </span></span>[1].<br>
<br>
- More than 80% of people who make a suggestion or a complaint
(statistics from a claim handling training course) just want to <i>"improve
the world"</i>. A sincere answer: "we see what you mean, and we
will try harder" is enough, more often than not.<br>
<br>
With best regards<br>
Oleksiy<br>
<br>
[1] <i>"Je voudrais avoir écrit une lettre plus courte, mais je
n’en ai pas le temps."</i><i> </i> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal</a><br>
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