Okay. I will not reply to them. Enough mental cycles wasted On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 1:11 PM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, January 15, 2021, Hemil Ruparel <hemilruparel2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am not asking people to get banned the moment they ask easy questions. >> I am 18. Believe me I have done that too (way more than i would like to >> admit ;P). I am just saying we should guide them. But there are some people >> who do not wish to be guided. They just want spoonfed answers which is >> untolerable in my opinion. You need to be ready to learn on your own. And >> attempt to struggle with your problem for at least a few hours before >> asking for help >> > > Please consider taking the not top-posting request to heart. > > This is part of what I was referring to - while you feel strongly about > this position the moderators are not going to ban people for this behavior, > nor should they. The community can impose a punishment by simply not > responding, or can avoid conflict by giving answers, while some cases > result in attempts to educate (which I do on occasion...and which frankly, > and correctly, puts me out there for needing rebuke/support as a community > representative moreso than the questioner). > > There is a lot of grey here and untolerable doesn’t fit well and you will > need to make a personal decision if you find yourself keeping score and > simply reading that kind of email causes discomfort. On that point, I will > say that my innate emotional response is quite similar and that I get > concerned that I act in counter-productive and unhealthy ways at times. > But its not the responsibility of the project to prevent exposing me to > situations where my highly judgmental nature is riled, and it should tell > me if I fail to control my response to that emotion. At the same time, > acknowledging that people such as myself do generally positively represent > the community it is does behoove them to consider providing support/tools > that can mitigate this human aspect of the request/reply dynamic. > > David J. > >
