: On 14 October 2012 17:58, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > What's needed, IMO, is a difficult balance: there needs to be calm, > low-volume, but firm response to instances of hostile behaviour, making > clear by demonstration – especially to the people only observing the > discussion – that such hostility is unwanted and not to be tolerated in > our community.
Yep. I also think such responses are more effective coming from people who already have some weight[1] around here (which was part of the reason I was hesitant to bring it up myself). Good to see a few names I'd put in that bracket appear in this thread :-) -[]z. [1] "Who are you calling fat?" replies in 3, 2 ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
