On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Jay Fields <j...@jayfields.com> wrote:
> I was involved with Ruby and Rails in the early days. The Ruby mailing > lists / conferences were always kind / helpful and the Rails lists / confs > were always hit and miss. There were plenty of great Rails people, and > enough jerks to upset anyone. * Community is important, vital even. Not everything is about code. * Ignore posts/people you personally find inflammatory. The moment a thread devolves into strange personal esoteria unrelated to Clojure, it's clearly time to leave it alone. * Don't take things personally. People are entitled to their own opinions about Clojure style. Mailing lists are low bandwidth mediums. Much emotive context is lost. * At near 4500 members, I think Rich is not in a position to actively police the list * Clojure/core is actively watching the list I still thoroughly enjoy reading through much of what goes on here. The best and only sustainable form of policing is self-policing. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en