From: "James F.  Hranicky" <jfh@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T00:35:36+09:00
Subject: Re: At least one nasty person in your community

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:08:57 +0900
"Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@3DProgrammer.com> wrote:

> Ok, I was going to say that although you're not as wonderfully welcoming as
> you think, you're much better than the comp.lang.python community.
> 
> That was before one of your community chose to privately flame me with
> profanities, statements that I had no honor, that I bring a cancer, get off
> the "mailing list," etc.  To my US ear, he sounded foreign.  I said he
> should study up on the First Amendment if he wanted to understand US
> concepts of "honor."
> 
> This person's action is far, far worse than what even my worst detractor in
> comp.lang.python has said of me.  Unless he's an isolated crank, your
> community has a serious attitude problem about what passes for acceptable
> discourse and intellectual integrity.

Does one rude person a community make?

What should the community do about this, really? Unless we're going to
try to police everyone who signs up for the list or posts to the newsgroup,
there's not much we can do.

I've been on this list for 2 years, and it's probably the most flame-free/
attitude-free list I've seen. 

I think if you start posting questions about using the language you'll get
a better feel for the community than you have so far.

$.02

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