[Python-ideas] How to respond to trolling

[Ryan Birmingham]

I think that replying with an almost canned response, like the one Ned
proposed ("unless you are seriously proposing a change to the language,
this is not the right list."), would help discourage other list members
from responding where responses aren't necessary.

-Ryan Birmingham

On 10 January 2017 at 16:58, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Whether the intent was to annoy or just to provoke, the effect was dozens
> of messages with people falling over each other trying to engage the OP,
> who clearly was ignorant of most language design issues and uninterested in
> learning, and threw some insults in for good measure. The respondents
> should have known better.
>
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