On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 00:45:00 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 7:16 AM, Bart <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: >>> This group is openly hostile and unwelcoming. >> >> Have you noticed how a lot of the hostility seems to happen shortly >> after you make your posts about how Python sucks compared to your >> nameless and unpublished language? > > That's no excuse for hostility.
Isn't it? 1. How much rude and obnoxious behaviour from somebody are we supposed to accept before responding with hostility? 2. To what degree should groups be permitted to enforce group norms through social disapproval and hostility? 3. Is shunning and "the silent treatment" really a better (kinder?) response to bad behaviour than anger? These are serious questions, not rhetorical ones. In interpersonal and societal relationships, shunning is one of the cruelest and most toxic ways to deal with conflict short of physical abuse, but we've made it the norm on the internet. If somebody says something you don't like, block them, ignore them silently, don't respond to their messages, even hell-ban them on web forums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
