> On 17-Dec-2014, at 9:00 pm, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:50 PM, ivo welch <[email protected]> wrote: > > my note was partly a joke, partly a warning. the R community started out > very nice, too. many still are. but some of the tone has shifted towards > the obnoxious. the weirdest part is that there are some people who seem to > enjoy *really* helping users, all the while being somewhat insulting. it is > my (incomplete) understanding that internal strife in the core development > team has become negative, too. it will be up to the julia core team to set > the community standard and watch themselves and the community to keep it > alive. > > This is certainly something to watch out for. I'm willing to bully people > into being nice :-P
We have done this in the past and will certainly enforce niceness as required. :-) The community is one of the reasons people love julia, and why we ourselves love it. I am sure all of us would love to keep it that way. -viral
