Yes, it's a pity the more rational feedback didn't come first, but knees do tend to jerk at recruitment communications. S
Steve Holden On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Tom Wright <t...@tatw.name> wrote: > Perhaps replying immediately doesn't count as pause, but I hope this > constitutes thought. > > I would make three points: > > I. The tone of the response may in part be due to the recruitment topic > more than anything else. This is unfortunately a rather fraught subject. > Bulk recruitment ads are so common it is unsurprising that people would > view them as a piece of text rather than a correspondence with a real > person. > > II. I suspect that many readers do not view this list as for communication > that requires "professional" standards. And might view the imposition of > professionalism in this context as problematic. > > This represents the key conflict at the heart of codes of conduct: > in-group behaviour that can be damagingly exclusionary, versus the > imposition of strict rules that impinge upon an informal setting. > > III. I don't know if the guidance on this list for jobs posts is > particularly clear, and if I am not mistaken is mostly held in people's > heads. An unfortunate side effect of no clearly defined rules is that the > informal rules can be unforced rather unfriendlily. > > On 6 Dec 2016 1:46 p.m., "David Wilson" <dw+python...@hmmz.org> wrote: > >> While I quite enjoyed this thread and, especially considering the >> recruiter's followup, it appears to have somewhat been in bad taste. >> >> I can't speak for others, but I'm in my mid 30s and regularly confuse >> license/licence, prescribe/proscribe and without doubt a bunch more, >> either through finger memory or plain old thinko. It would not be >> without embarrassment to have strangers publicly ridicule such errors, >> especially in a professional context as occurred here. >> >> This is a minor incident, but it's from a class where the underlying >> insensitivity has forced other communities to grow a Code of Conduct, >> therefore perhaps it's worth taking a little pause to reflect on it. >> >> >> David >> >> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:57:00PM +0000, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: >> > On 06/12/16 13:20, Roger Gammans wrote: >> > > If your set of Prinicpia is Russell's not Newton's you may not >> > > have simple values. >> > >> > Our principal aim is to express a complete and consistent set of >> > misspelled principles. >> > >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > python-uk mailing list >> > python-uk@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > >
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