Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Jul 2017, at 23:57, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is no fun to call people out on this, but I'll do it if no one else will. > If someone starts a conversation to talk about X in a public forum, anyone is > free to join that conversation to talk about X or not to do so. Surely, we > can all agree that it's a breach of etiquette anywhere, in any forum, to join > that conversation with the purpose of talking about Y. Generally, it's good > manners and not "policing" for any participant who's interested in talking or > hearing about X to say to that other person, "I'm sorry, the topic at the > moment is X." That doesn't mean that one person is better than the other in > any way, but it's also not an invitation to start a debate as to whether the > topic at the moment really is X or Y.
Public forums are helpful, but they are also hard and sometimes frustrating. I am nobody to say how anyone should talk in them, so please don't take this the wrong way. While the intention of avoiding sidetracking is loable, maybe we could be a bit more careful with the wording. So instead of saying "this is not the place" we can say "can you open a separate thread to talk about your concerns?". Both avoid highjacking, but the second promotes further contributions. Also, funnily enough, this review thread seems highjacked by this other topic. -- Víctor Pimentel _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
