[p2p-research] Issue of bullying within private p2p-f communication

[Michel Bauwens]

Sam,

Thanks for this,

I am torn between two positions, but frankly, deep within me, it is the
drastic measures approach that is the only one that will clean up the air.

So, the conciliatory position is: Alex retracts his intention, and accepts a
moratorium, say 6 weeks or two months, this allows passions to die down, and
Alex can think of ways to contribute, that do not impinge the freedom of
others, and also  learns to restrain the bullying and other modalities we
talked about.

The second, and frankly more true position I have now is. Alex contributions
are detrimental to the project, his behaviour is inacceptable in a
cooperative venture, nothing is really going to solve this since he has had
a lot of time and occasions to behave in a conciliatory manner. He simply
cannot see there is a problem.

So, the action here would be clear: explusion. Kevin takes measures
regarding the list, in the context of the bullying. And James takes the step
to ban Alex from the wiki. Life goes on, Alex finds another way to use his
creative energies, and perhaps one day, if calm has returned, makes another
more modest attempt that recognizes the existing and previous contributors.

It's really becoming a human drama where the choice is between a p2p-f
dominated by Alex, and one that is more organically growing and where I
still have a place myself.

Michel




On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I want to report on an issue that I had communicated privately, to honour
> my
> > own promise to restrain myself, but given Sam Rose's reply which I'm not
> > copying in without his permission, confirms that private bullying has
> gone
> > on much more systematically.
>
> You don't have to put up with it, Michel. The situation is that a
> person is taking up huge amounts of your time and energy, accusing you
> of being dishonest, evasive,hurling insults at you etc. You've clearly
> and concisely explained your position and reasoning a number of times.
> You have no obligation to comply with any specific demands related to
> this.
>
> So the question is:
>
> What do you see that specifically needs to happen to prevent the
> problems you foresee? What do you need the rest of us to do?
>
>
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