Hi Simon and all, > If a substantial part of our community would share that attitude, we'd be in > serious trouble, I am afraid. > > For creating a conflict, it is in some cases sufficient to have a single > person who had have a bad day or didn't sleep enough, causing a temporary > misjudgement. > > However, for keeping a conflict boiling, it is in all cases necessary to have > several people who are committing continued misjudgements. And that's what > the mentioned attitude achieves. > > And unfortunately, a code of conduct can not prevent a temporary > misjudgement, but it may encourage the mentioned attitude, making conflicts a > lot more violent. > > In other words, if you are able to see a legitimate request behind a wall of > behaviour that seems inappropriate to you, then you should answer that > request. It is fine if you are not able to, but then > please don't answer at all.
I think the whole conundrum is not about one person having a bad day, but repeated behaviors that many different people perceive as offensive and are turned away by. That, to a community of volunteers, is dangerous! It is counter productive and takes a lot of positive energy away. Viviane mentioned already once the situation where someone opens a thread to discuss something, but then gets attacked and/or the discussion disintegrates. Then what do you do if you still want to discuss these issues? Since you seem to have very strong opinions how things should be done and I am in such a situation, I would like to know how should this be handled? Best, Anne -- 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.
