Sorry, you'll just have to apply the inverse dyslexia filter to my previous message. As I've observed in other fora, it's been a long week. S
Steve Holden On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:13 PM, John Lee <j...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> I remember Dan Ariely reporting research in which some students were >> asked to sign the MIT honour code before taking a test (in his book >> "Predictably Irrational" I think). It was found those students cheated >> less than a control group. But, MIT doesn't *have* an honour code >> (according to Ariely, at the time)! The hypothesis is that we need >> reminding about these things to behave better -- and the code itself is not >> so important. >> > > In which case if more people did what Daniele did, and called out > unacceptable behaviour, we would get reminded but only after something at > least mildly unacceptable had happened. > > Many mailing lists (used to) publish a monthly FAQ, a practice neither > python-list not this one has ever adopted. I wonder if this might be a > low-bandwidth way to discourage high-bandwidth incidents? > > Of course this solution is now about thirty-five years old, and I realise > you young kids like the shiny we stuff, but it might actually give us an > impersonal way of setting everyone's expectations before things get out of > hand. If they do so quickly, we can always take the sting out of any > response by pointing to a web copy of hte FAW and saying :you may not have > yet been am member of the list long enough to see this." > > After all, we aren't looking to discourage *people* here, but behaviours. > > regards > Steve > > > Steve Holden >
_______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
