On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:04:39 -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > >> On 2018-07-13 05:45 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> Yeah, that is cult behavior. Here's a few boxes to tick on: >>> >>> <URL: http://www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm> >> >> I couldn't find a single item that applies to this group. What's your >> point? > > I think that Marko sometimes likes to stir the ants nest by looking down > at the rest of us and painting himself as the Lone Voice Of Sanity in a > community gone mad *wink* > > Let's look at the very first point on the checklist: > > "The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning > commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) > regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the > Truth, as law." > > > Apparently Marko didn't notice the irony of suggesting that we display > excessive commitment to GvR in the middle of a thread that started with > Guido resigning his leadership position with these words: > > "I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and > find that so many people despise my decisions." > > > Yeah, the *hundreds if not thousands* of emails, posts, tweets and other > messages telling Guido off for getting it idiotically wrong *really* > sounds like cultists taking the words of their leader as divine truth. /s >
Ahh but you misunderstand. The cult does not worship Guido. It worships Tim Batchelder, an infallible being that few people have ever actually heard from. > "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing > it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson You don't say. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
