Indeed, this thread has been derailed. I should ask myself to open a separate thread to talk about these concerns :) On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 06:16 Víctor Pimentel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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
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