On Thursday, November 20, 2014 6:06:53 PM UTC-8, William wrote: > > Can somebody help me count the votes? I made pass through this long > and complicated thread, and here's what I seem to have got. >
I'm -1 to an "enforcable" code of conduct. In extreme cases (which haven't happened) a list administrator could temporarily ban someone. The natural outrage such an action is bound to have is, in my opinion, a good deterrent on using it. I explain my motivation below. >From the information I see, sage-devel is behaving like most online forums. Most of the discussion is civil and productive, but there is the occasional derailing. As far as I know, this happens on any forum of reasonable size, unless there is heavy moderation (which would slow down and defeat the purpose of sage-devel). I think sage-flame was a nice invention and has helped in controlling signal-to-noise on sage-devel in the past. It hasn't been used so frequently recently. If I'm right that sage-devel is not particularly hostile (for the most part it's pretty good in my opinion), then I don't think implementing a code of conduct "with teeth" is going to improve the situation significantly. Having guidelines for conduct easily available might help in showing newcomers that we care. A perceived offender can be pointed to it too to make the person aware how other people are perceiving his tone. I think the most effective way of establishing the community we want is by leading by example. That already happens quite a bit. -- 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.
