> On Sep 21, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > Le 21/09/2018 à 14:45, Paul Moore a écrit : >> >> It's not likely to be a practical option on a mailing list, but in >> primary school (which the whole conversation felt like) a likely >> response would have been to put *everyone* involved in a time-out for >> a period of cooling off, to think about how their behaviour was >> unacceptable. Think for example of a group of kids taunting each other >> until one of them snaps and hits someone. > > With a forum system, the thread would just have been locked. > > However, you may not physically lock a mailing-list thread, but you can > post a moderator's announcement asking everyone to stop posting to that > thread, and warning that failing to comply would get the offender e.g. a > 7-day ban (regardless of the contents of their post). >
This seems like a very reasonable stop gap until we have better moderation tools. > Regards > > Antoine. > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
