On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Abdussalam Baryun <
abdussalambaryun(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
I agree to write a draft to help the suggestion of having future draft of
defining an Ad hominems and preventing it. Comments below,
I am fully on board with efforts to make participation by relative
newcomers more smooth and comfortable. However, I feel the idea of
creating an RFC merely to define "ad hominem" and suggest ways to prevent
it is just a bit silly. For example, I can imagine a citation like "Your
comment is an ad hominem, as defined in RFCxxxx. Please don't do that, or
rephrase your question." And I can imagine both veterans and newcomers
alike thinking that's just a bizarre thing to do, or to have to do.
Perhaps I'm just amazed that we've reached a point where we feel we
actually have to write down what things constitute professional conduct (or
the opposite).
-MSK