Python 3 put-downs: What's the point?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 18:20:38 -0700 (PDT)
CM <cmpython at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Any online group is an opportunity to register dissent in a way that
> is public, open, immediate, interactive, and will (probably) be
> preserved for historians to check.  The fact is, some people have
> gripes with Python 3; they are letting it be known.  If no one did,
> there could be no later time at which people could look back and know
> what the reaction was to its introduction--it would just be a blank.
> Aren't opinions that dissent from the prevailing ones important to
> register, whether one thinks they are right or wrong?

Sure. As long as you don't record the same dissent from the same person
ten times in a row. Then it becomes trolling.