On Friday, November 14, 2014 3:55:34 AM UTC+1, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > Bullying can get so bad that the teachers need to step in and enact the > correct punishment. >
...yet, in my experience, they usually don't, and often because the bullies are likable, or socially influential (e.g., son of the superintendent/major donor, comes from "a good family"), etc. Sometimes a teacher can unintentionally make a student feel like s/he is bullying her or him. "Speech codes" are sometimes used simply to shut down debate on topics that become culturally unfashionable, and are often applied unevenly. I personally prefer civilized discourse, but I've also noticed that Western society seems to have adopted an undercurrent of thin-skinned outrage. If someone wanted to add a patch that verifiably improved the performance of Sage on [insert your favorite subsystem here], what would you do if her or his comments were frequently abusive toward other contributors, or previous contributions? i.e., profanity-laced, derogatory, etc. Not the code itself, mind, just the comments in the trac ticket and/or discussion in sage-devel. Presumably, someone would take her/ him aside & talk to him, but what if (as often happens) that person ignored the intervention & continued to heap abuse on you? Would you reject the patch? If not, what's the point of the proposed code? Again, I like civilized discourse, but a code without consequences strikes me as worse than no code at all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
