On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 6:16:13 PM UTC-6, Luke Tomaneng wrote: > Has anyone noticed [uppercase post content]? There have > been about three of them recently and they don't seem to > have anything to do with Python at all. Does anyone know > if there is a good reason they are here?
A "good reason"...? Nope. Using all-caps when writing is understood as shouting. I sometimes use caps myself on intermittent words that need special emphasis, but using nothing but caps is so annoying that most people won't even bother to read your posts. Apparently the author has something "so important" to say, they he thinks he needs to "shout from the rafters" so everybody can hear his "important message". Although, he's failed to notice that this is a group who's primary focus is the Python Programming language, or at minimum, a discussion of technical issues, and so most people are not going to be interested -- and by "most" i mean *ALL*. ;-) However, as is the case with most of these "troll-spammers", the author is most likely posting this crap to multiple message boards in hopes that someone will engage him or click one of his malware installing links. Just ignore them. That's the beauty of free speech: "We have right to be annoyed, and the author has the right not to give a damn". The only alternative is fascist censorship, and I'll happily endure these annoyances to prevent that! You see, with fascism you just trade one annoying jerk who has no power, for another annoying jerk who has the absolute power of the state behind him -- and you know the old adage about power and corruption don't you? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list