Chris Barker via Python-ideas writes: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:39 PM, James Lu <jam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In a forum, the beautiful is better than ugly issue would be > > locked. No more posts can be added. > Exactly -- but that means we are stopping the discussion -- but we don't > want to stop the discussion altogether, And that's exactly what a mute on replies does. Most people will just give up, which is appropriate. People who have (what they think is) a good reason to continue can start a new thread with a link to the old one. Hardly a prohibitive barrier, if you're willing to risk banning. I think this "feature" will do what people generally think it does: provide a strong signal to stop the discussion, and back that up with a fail-safe (if you *do* hit reply, it won't work). Footnotes: [1] Something rather unlikely to happen for many many months, even if the core decides to support it. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
