Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-14 Thread Jacco van Dorp
I'm perhaps the newest and most ignorant subscriber here - I daresay everyone here has superior python knowledge to me, and all my other computing knowledge is inferior to what I can do with python. (and so far, I've had no influence at all on python) However, this mailing list, generally, does

Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Cleaning out the Ccs, presumably subscribed. Nicholas Chammas writes: > From what I’ve seen on this list in my relatively brief time here, > this forum is mostly fine and the participants generally behave > like adults. I don’t read every thread, so maybe I don’t have an > accurate picture.

Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-13 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
some mods warnings or reminders might also help ! Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius ___ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct:

Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-13 Thread Abe Dillon
This is a half-baked thought, but perhaps a sub-reddit would facilitate better moderation and we'd get the bonus of threaded discussions and a side-bar for ediquite and other important info. I know Reddit has a mixed reputation, but some of the best moderated subs like /r/science and

Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-13 Thread Michael Selik
Something that limits posts to once per day per thread could be useful, maybe even once per week. On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 10:06 AM Michael Selik wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 5:59 AM Nicholas Chammas > wrote: > >> Maybe we need to revive that discussion? Overall, I don’t think we have a >>

Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 3:06 AM, Michael Selik wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 5:59 AM Nicholas Chammas > wrote: >> >> Maybe we need to revive that discussion? Overall, I don’t think we have a >> people problem on this list as much as we have an administration tooling >> problem. > > > +1 > >

Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-13 Thread Michael Selik
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 5:59 AM Nicholas Chammas wrote: > Maybe we need to revive that discussion? Overall, I don’t think we have a > people problem on this list as much as we have an administration tooling > problem. > +1 Even the fact that "straw poll" votes aren't counted automatically shows

Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-13 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
normally at above 20+ posts it gets crazy Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius ___ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct:

Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-13 Thread Nicholas Chammas
>From what I’ve seen on this list in my relatively brief time here, this forum is mostly fine and the participants generally behave like adults. I don’t read every thread, so maybe I don’t have an accurate picture. From what I’ve seen, there is the occasional spat, where people just need to step

Re: [Python-ideas] Toxic forum

2018-08-13 Thread Paul Moore
On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 11:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:56:24 -0500 > Abe Dillon wrote: > > > > This forum is looking more and more toxic. I've explained myself over and > > over again. I just wanted to +1 Steven's original comment. This is > > ridiculous. I guess I've