[python-committers] CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

[Ethan Furman]

On 09/21/2018 07:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou 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.

It is certainly not as convenient, but with the current system we can 
set a spam filter on subject lines and stop threads that way.  It is 
still a pretty rough tool (whole thread, not sub-thread) and a bit 
awkward to use, but doable.

Of course, we still have the problem of speed -- some threads blow up in 
a matter of hours.

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~Ethan~