[python-uk] Code of Conduct

[Steve Holden]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:13 PM, John Lee <jjl at pobox.com> wrote:

> I remember Dan Ariely reporting research in which some students were asked
> to sign the MIT honour code before taking a test (in his book "Predictably
> Irrational" I think).  It was found those students cheated less than a
> control group.  But, MIT doesn't *have* an honour code (according to
> Ariely, at the time)!  The hypothesis is that we need reminding about these
> things to behave better -- and the code itself is not so important.
>

In which case if more people did what Daniele did, and called out
unacceptable behaviour, we would get reminded but only after something at
least mildly unacceptable had happened.

Many mailing lists (used to) publish a monthly FAQ, a practice neither
python-list not this one has ever adopted. I wonder if this might be a
low-bandwidth way to discourage high-bandwidth incidents?

Of course this solution is now about thirty-five years old, and I realise
you young kids like the shiny we stuff, but it might actually give us an
impersonal way of setting everyone's expectations before things get out of
hand. If they do so quickly, we can always take the sting out of any
response by pointing to a web copy of hte FAW and saying :you may not have
yet been am member of the list long enough to see this."

After all, we aren't looking to discourage *people* here, but behaviours.

regards
 Steve


Steve Holden
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