On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 8:45:38 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > There are a lot of people here who post good content but phrase things > poorly. And everyone has a bad day. (Terry Reedy, I'm hoping this was > just a bad day - there were several rather caustic posts from you. > Sorry to single you out, but I can't think of anyone else recently > who's done that.) So long as there's something useful being said, the > community would be worse off for their removal.
Good -- we're agreed on that much > > That said, though, I would GREATLY prefer Rick to post less > provocatively. But I'm not calling for his banning any more than I'd > call for Terry's, or my own, for that matter (I've posted plenty of > off-topic or otherwise useless posts). Yes: Just to be clear I am not asking for Rick to be banned though he needs to be told more often than others to stop assholing. Likewise jmf: Old-timers out here know anyway to ignore his unicode-complaints. And newcomers --eg this thread -- need to be told anyway. So why ban? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list