[Osmf-talk] Candidacy: OSMF Board

Thu Nov 23 15:00:19 UTC 2017

Am 23.11.2017 um 15:38 schrieb Ben Abelshausen:
> I think this is completely unacceptable, whatever you may think of
> Heather, nobody deserves this kind of treatment.
>
> And Simon, it's Severin who forces us to talk about form and not
> content by bullying members who have the nerve to stand for election.
> He, sadly, has a history doing this and it's toxic.
>
> Nobody is saying we can't discuss a persons merits with relation to
> OSM, it's in fact crucial to the election process, but treating people
> like this is also detrimental to any functional community. If
> something like this is being defended by core members of this group I
> wonder more and more what kind of organization I'm part of.
Where did I defend it?

I actually pointed out that clearly that the wording leaves a lot to be
desired. As you point out  Severin is in the mean time well known for
his fairly aggressive critique of certain aspects of HOT Inc., but I
didn't see name calling, threats, use of force or any other behaviour in
the mail that would commonly be associated with bullying 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying) as Pete claims it was.

Impolite, unfriendly, over the top, personal and clearly unhappy, yes
sure. Bullying? No.

Should we limit discussion just to those that can deliver their opinions
in perfect form?

Simon

>
> This is another sad event that almost makes me ashamed to part of this
> community.
>
> Discussion, the more the better, but not this! This has to stop now!
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch
> <mailto:simon at poole.ch>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Am 23.11.2017 um 14:26 schrieb Pete Masters:
>>     I agree with you, Simon. My viewpoint isn't opposed to Rob's!
>>
>>     Anyone should be able to publicly challenge and question
>>     candidates - as equally we are able to challenge the premise of
>>     those same questions. If Sev truly believes that our leaders
>>     should have one or ten or a hundred thousand changesets to their
>>     name, that's fine. I don't have to agree and I can respond as such.
>     Actually this seems to be the time honoured deflection tactic that
>     we've seem so often on this list: focus on the form (undoubtedly
>     some of the adjectives used could have been chosen better), minor
>     details and then start mincing words around that to move focus
>     from the actual issue at hand,
>
>     It should, IMHO, be left to the reader to gauge what is relevant
>     to the discussion, and have confidence that they will ignore any
>     irrelevant and superficial information. I don't think you'll find
>     many that consider the editor used to contribute to OSM a
>     particularly important piece of information.
>>
>>     My point is that the language Sev uses is disrespectful, personal
>>     and hurtful. That's not ok in my book.... Firstly, for Heather -
>>     no-one should have to read that. And secondly, because this
>>     hostility /discourages/ debate and divides community.
>
>     I don't think we can expect everybody to put their criticism in a
>     sandwich
>     (https://dmh.mo.gov/dd/docs/tieredsupportsummarythesandwichmethod.pdf
>     <https://dmh.mo.gov/dd/docs/tieredsupportsummarythesandwichmethod.pdf>)
>     just to make it more palatable to the recipient, and, as has
>     already been said, its an election, the nature of the thing is
>     that it is about personal qualifications.
>
>     Simon
>      
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Pete
>>
>>     On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:25 PM, joost schouppe
>>     <joost.schouppe at gmail.com <mailto:joost.schouppe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         2017-11-23 13:42 GMT+01:00 Rob Nickerson
>>         <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com <mailto:rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>             It's a difficult one because if you stand for one of
>>             these two vacancies then you open your self up to
>>             challenge - essential for a functioning democracy. On the
>>             other hand challenging via the written medium is hard to
>>             get right. 
>>
>>             Thinking about TV interviews of politicians I can imagine
>>             presenters putting these same challenges to the
>>             candidate. I.e. they seem like reasonable challenges to have.
>>
>>
>>         Well, I haven't seen TV interviews where a journalist says
>>         something like "you seem to know nothing about health care,
>>         isn't it shameless to offer to be minister of health". (but
>>         maybe I don't watch TV enough?). 
>>
>>         This really sets the tone:
>>
>>         > Seeking to join the board of the OSM Foundation with such a
>>         high OSM profile is really shameless
>>
>>         I am all for challenging candidates, but shaming them goes a
>>         bit further than that. I'd hate to think that the best
>>         candidates for this election are not participating because
>>         they prefer not to be publicly shamed in this way. Sure, you
>>         have the right to say things like this here, but I doubt very
>>         strongly that this kind of tone is good for the project. Just
>>         stating the facts as you see them, might have led to a
>>         discussion about facts. Now we're just going to discuss
>>         wether or not this kind of talk is OK or not.
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Joost Schouppe
>>         OpenStreetMap
>>         <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | Twitter
>>         <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn
>>         <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup
>>         <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>     *Pete Masters*
>>
>>     _ at pedrito1414_ <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps>
>>
>>
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