Re: Users banned

2018-07-17 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 18/07/18 00:10, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2018-07-17, Thomas Jollans wrote: >> On 2018-07-16 01:29, Jon Ribbens wrote: >>> Do you have any reason to believe the message at the top of the >>> thread purporting to ban users was genuinely from the moderators? >>> Because there are obvious reasons to

Re: Users banned

2018-07-17 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2018-07-17, Thomas Jollans wrote: > On 2018-07-16 01:29, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> Do you have any reason to believe the message at the top of the >> thread purporting to ban users was genuinely from the moderators? >> Because there are obvious reasons to believe otherwise. > > Care to elaborate?

Re: Users banned

2018-07-17 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 2018-07-16 01:29, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2018-07-15, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> Christian Gollwitzer : Am 15.07.18 um 19:25 schrieb Ethan Furman: > The following users are now banned from Python List: > ... > BartC

Re: Users banned

2018-07-17 Thread Jon Ribbens
7;s no statute of limitation for murder, > but surely "being obnoxious on the internet" ought to come with a fairly > short period of forgiveness. Why is anyone responding as if the original "Users banned" message was genuine, rather than the obvious troll it actually was? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Users banned

2018-07-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 20:03:39 +0100, Steve Simmons wrote: > +1  Seems to me Bart is being banned for "being a dick" and "talking > rubbish" (my words/interpretation) with irritating persistence. I know that when I first started here, I often talked rubbish. The difference is, I was willing to lis

Re: Users banned

2018-07-16 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/16/2018 3:27 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2018-07-16, Steve Simmons wrote: +1  Seems to me Bart is being banned for "being a dick" and "talking rubbish" (my words/interpretation) with irritating persistence. Wonder how many of the non-banned members have been guilty of the same thing in on

Re: Users banned

2018-07-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-07-16, Steve Simmons wrote: > +1  Seems to me Bart is being banned for "being a dick" and "talking > rubbish" (my words/interpretation) with irritating persistence. Wonder > how many of the non-banned members have been guilty of the same thing in > one way or another. I'm sure many of

Re: Users banned

2018-07-16 Thread Steve Simmons
On 16/07/2018 03:13, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 5:09 PM Jim Lee wrote: That is, of course, the decision of the moderators - but I happen to agree with both Christian and Ethan. Banning for the simple reason of a dissenting opinion is censorship, pure and simple. While Bar

Re: Users banned

2018-07-15 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 5:09 PM Jim Lee wrote: > That is, of course, the decision of the moderators - but I happen to > agree with both Christian and Ethan. Banning for the simple reason of a > dissenting opinion is censorship, pure and simple. While Bart may have > been prolific in his argument

Re: Users banned

2018-07-15 Thread Jim Lee
On 07/15/18 14:53, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: Christian Gollwitzer : Am 15.07.18 um 19:25 schrieb Ethan Furman: The following users are now banned from Python List: ... BartC I don't really think that this is appropriate. Bart may have dev

Re: Users banned

2018-07-15 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2018-07-15, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Christian Gollwitzer : >>> Am 15.07.18 um 19:25 schrieb Ethan Furman: The following users are now banned from Python List: ... BartC >>> >>> I don't really think that this is appropriat

Re: Users banned

2018-07-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Christian Gollwitzer : > >> Am 15.07.18 um 19:25 schrieb Ethan Furman: >>> The following users are now banned from Python List: >>> ... >>> BartC >> >> I don't really think that this is appropriate. Bart may have deviant >> optinions, mostly

Re: Users banned

2018-07-15 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Christian Gollwitzer : > Am 15.07.18 um 19:25 schrieb Ethan Furman: >> The following users are now banned from Python List: >> ... >> BartC > > I don't really think that this is appropriate. Bart may have deviant > optinions, mostly he thinks that his own work is superior to Python - > but he has

Re: Users banned

2018-07-15 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 15.07.18 um 19:25 schrieb Ethan Furman: The following users are now banned from Python List: ... BartC I don't really think that this is appropriate. Bart may have deviant optinions, mostly he thinks that his own work is superior to Python - but he has always argued in a calm and technic

Users banned

2018-07-15 Thread Ethan Furman
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