On Friday, April 21, 2017 at 2:38:08 PM UTC+5:30, Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 20-04-17 om 17:25 schreef Rustom Mody: > > But more importantly thank you for your polite and consistent pointing out > > to > > Ben Finney that his religion-bashing signature lines [many of them] and his > > claims to wish this list be welcoming are way out of sync. > > I don't know. I think a concept like welcoming is too complex, to draw such > simple conclusions. First of all we have to make a choice about the public we > want to be welcoming to. I'm rather confident we can agree we don't want to > be welcoming to bigots on this list. > > Then feeling welcome is not a boolean, people can feel welcome to a different > degree and there are many factors at work. If people tend to react in a > friendly > manner to there co-participants, people generally should feel welcome. A > statment > in a signature that isn't addressing anyone personnaly may give rise to some > irritation but shouldn't make this list feel unwelcome to someone.
Generally agree [though I wonder how you will decide what constitutes a 'bigot'. Look at the suggestion in the very subject of these threads] > > Do you think critising any idea in one's signature is enough to conclude that > this person doesn't wish this list to be welcoming? Lets try a thought-experiment: A: Islam is glorious B: Religion is garbage C: Christ is the best Will these statements get equal treatment as spam/as censure etc if they appear on this list? Note that from certain pov, religion-bashing or atheism-lauding are as much pushing some belief-system as pushing an (un)conventional religion More to the point will an anti-semitic view be treated with equal harshness to an anti-Islam/Palestine one? https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2017-April/720532.html Overall, even though it may be a blunt weapon: Why not just keep out utterly unrelated-to-python stuff? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
