On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:28:11 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 02-10-13 11:08, Steven D'Aprano schreef: >> On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:32:57 +0530, Ravi Sahni wrote: >> >>> I find this real confused!! Why they are answering then?!?! As far as >>> I can make out everyone who is answering (helping!) doing it >>> frustratation and disgust. But still they keep answering and >>> answering!! >>> >>> Makes no sense >> >> >> If you want to ask why people are answering Nikos' questions, you >> should ask them directly. I won't speak for others, but I'll answer for >> myself: I answer Nikos' questions because: >> >> #1 He is a member of our community who needs help with Python, and this >> is a welcoming community, not an elitist one. > > Come on Steve. You have kill filed people. So you don't think that > merely being a member is enough. Or are you being elistist when you kill > file someone?
When I kill-file somebody, I tell them, and I always make it temporary. This is not a matter of elitism, it is a matter of responding to bad behaviour and sending a message that it is inappropriate -- if you behave badly, I will not see your messages. Think of it as "time out", or for sports fans, "the sin bin". I expect some people have probably kill-filed me, although (to the best of me knowledge) none of them have had the elementary decency to tell me. [...] > And you don't treat all others in the way you hope to be treated if you > would be in their shoes. I suspect that should you one day feel so > frustrated you need to vent, you will hope to get treated differently > than how you treat those that need to vent now. You are very selective > about the people in whose shoes you can imagine yourself. I am only an imperfect human being. I don't always live up to my ideals. Sometimes I behave poorly. I have a tendency to react to newbies' poor questions with sarcasm. Perhaps a little bit of sarcasm is okay, but there is a fine line between making a point and being unnecessarily nasty. If I cross that line, I hope that somebody will call me out on it. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list