I sent Anatoly a note and suggested that we talk on Skype. We'll see what happens.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:08 AM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com>wrote: > On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:26:15 +0100, <luk...@langa.pl> wrote: > > What can we do? Apart from the obligatory joke of nudging him gently > > towards Ruby, I think calling his behavior out is a good idea. Cory > > Doctorow also thinks that "many trolls are perfectly nice in real life > > -- sometimes, just calling them on the phone and confronting them with > > the human being at the other end of their attacks is enough to sober > > them up" [3]. If that fails, banning him would show that we care about > > the quality of communication and technical prowess is no excuse for > > abusive behavior. > > As Brett pointed out, calling him on his behavior seems to meet with > pretty much zero success as far as modifying his future behavior goes. > The problem with banning him in general is that that has its own > consequences (and as Brett pointed out, how exactly do we do that?). > Banning him for specific actions (such as editing the Guidelines) > seems sensible. We basically booted him off the infrastructure mailing > list (I don't remember if it was a formal ban or not) when he was being > off-topic and annoying there. > > > All in all, is anyone of the opinion that losing him as a community > > member is worse than keeping him around? > > If losing him was the only consequence this would be pretty much a > no-brainer. However, it is likely the consequences of a general ban > would be more widespread than that (negative publicity, etc). > > --David > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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