On Sep 21, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou antoine@python.org wrote:
Le 21/09/2018 à 14:45, Paul Moore a écrit :
It's not likely to be a practical option on a mailing list, but in primary school (which the whole conversation felt like) a likely response would have been to put *everyone* involved in a time-out for a period of cooling off, to think about how their behaviour was unacceptable. Think for example of a group of kids taunting each other until one of them snaps and hits someone.
With a forum system, the thread would just have been locked.
However, you may not physically lock a mailing-list thread, but you can post a moderator's announcement asking everyone to stop posting to that thread, and warning that failing to comply would get the offender e.g. a 7-day ban (regardless of the contents of their post).
This seems like a very reasonable stop gap until we have better moderation tools.
Regards
Antoine.
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