Hi! On 2014-11-15, P Purkayastha <ppu...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can just follow some guidelines. I am a member of the Gentoo Linux > forums and they have very clear statements saying what is considered > inappropriate in the forums. In gist, > > 1. No personal attacks, > 2. No offensive language
That's where we would see disagreement already. For example, person A claims something, and person B answers that what A claims is "inconsistent". I can speak from experience that some people (e.g., far too many teachers) would believe that B was offensive, whereas I would say that B was just stating a fact (that may be true or false, but in any case is not offensive). And when you have a code of conduct stating that one shouldn't launch personal attacks or use offensive language, then it just states the obvious. Hence, such code would be useless. Worse, some people (including myself) tend to feel offended if they are told obvious things, and may react accordingly. Damage would result. Please don't forget: No code of conduct (and no criminal law, for that matter) can prevent people from commiting erratic behaviour. What really matters is: How to minimize the negative consequences of individual erratic behaviour to our community? Rather than having a list of "thou shalt not"s, telling people what not to do on our mailing lists, I think it would be better to suggest what to do when people on the list are hurt by other people on the list. How to increase the likelyhood that the offender will return to actual contribution? How to prevent the offended from quitting? Best regards, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
