> Was starting this thread useful for y’all? For now no, but it could. There's a tradeoff to have between the advantages of new social medias and their disadvantages. Since it's 50/50 or even 70 bad, 30 why not, we will probably keep mails. But some points have been said and were important.
I especially think about the message <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2019-February/055204.html> of Steve and some suggestions about welcoming new-comers with a message to help them a bit. Last thing that was important to me and non-english speakers was to say it was not always easy to understand, despite we speak well and that some behaviors might just be a mis-understanding rather than something else. Le dim. 3 févr. 2019 à 09:41, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> a écrit : > On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 7:07 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 10:57:40AM -0500, James Lu wrote: > > > It’s very demotivating to hear just negative feedback on this list. > > > > > > Was starting this thread useful for y’all? > > > > Do you want an honest answer, or positive feedback? ("It was great!") > > > > Personally, no, it wasn't useful for me. > > > > It was a major time-sink to read a large number of emails mostly arguing > > about the pros and cons of email versus web forums, the value of Like > > buttons, and whether or not you can access Reddit outside of a browser. > > But when you get down to the fundamentals, none of these matter for > > effective communication. We can write lazy, confusing, knee-jerk posts > > on Reddit just as easily as via email. > > > > (If anything, the easier the medium for communication, the lazier, more > > confusing and more knee-jerk we will be.) > > > > As far as I can tell, I was the only person who actually tried to > > provide some concrete suggestions for communicating clearly. Although it > > is still only early days, maybe others will give their own suggestions > > over the next few days. > > > > (Come one guys, don't let me be the only one answering James' direct > > question.) > > Sorry Steve, but I didn't answer his question because this whole > thread has become nothing but noise, and I'm trying not to contribute > any further to it. > > Which I'm doing here, by saying that no, it was not a useful thread. Mea > culpa. > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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