On 19 October 2016 at 12:29, Michel Desmoulin <desmoulinmic...@gmail.com> wrote: > I feel like people are really getting hyper sensitive about communications. > While I do prefer talking to calm rational people with a friendly tone, I > acknowledge this is not always the case and it's ok if somebody go overboard > from time to time.
It's certainly far better to avoid taking offense at comments that are made, wherever possible. People do make mistakes, and do get overexcited at times. > We are not living in a perfect world, and spending a lot of effort trying to > smooth everything out seems overkill to me. However, it's *not* OK for people to assume that it's up to the reader to not take offense. We may not be living in a perfect world, but we are living in a world where we get to deal with people from a lot more backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives than most of us are used to. To say nothing of the fact that on the web, it's easy to *forget* that people we interact with aren't "just like us". This is a huge privilege, but also makes it very easy to make mistakes. It does no harm (far from it!) for us to put some effort into trying to consider our readers' point of view when writing. And the beauty of email is that we have the *time* to stop, think, and make sure our words say what we want, without offending people. So +0.5 on people not being too quick to take offense at what they read. But +1 on people putting time into not *causing* offense. And a big thank you to all the people (admins, people working on things like CoCs, etc) like Brett who take time to remind us all to treat each other civilly and considerately. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
