Posted by Timne on July 9, 2009, at 12:55:39
In reply to Re: Apologies, posted by Timne on July 9, 2009, at 12:37:07
> Maybe I presumed that your leadership experience moderating a forum where infractions are adjudged based on the way they affect readers instead of on what the writer intended caused me to believe you would be sensitive to the affect of your words more so than reiterating intent.
>I think I could edit better in a larger edit field. That sentence runs on and on, but doesn't conjugate well.
"My limited knowledge of your leadership experience in a forum where affect sometimes seems to me to be valued more highly than intent informed my notion that you would be more concerned about the immediate affect of written words than about others' ability to discern one's intent in writing the words."
I can find only a few administrative messages here where the reply to a message that might have caused someone to feel put down is "but they really didn't intend it." If my quick read of the algorythm is correct, intent is a compounding factor, but not the basis in determining whether something that might have the affect of causing someone to feel something is in fact an infraction.
Which is not to suggest anything you've written is (or is not) an actionable infraction. We're asked to consider our affect as well as our intent when we write here, which is why I find cause to explore the nature of intent and affect in literary review.
I really have no way of knowing what someone means when they say "hate" in reference to someone else's belief. I only know what the term generally means, and that some times some social contexts allow some people to express preferences in terms of hatred, while others may not use the same expression in the same context. I don't think guidelines or enforcement practices here would allow me to say about anyone "I hate it when you do that" except perhaps in jest. Maybe I just don't understand the rules here, and maybe I don't understand literary review in general, but people sometimes do cite my skills at the latter.
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