[python-committers] Anatoly Techtonik's contribution

[Guido van Rossum]

I sent Anatoly a note and suggested that we talk on Skype. We'll see what
happens.


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:08 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:26:15 +0100, <lukasz at langa.pl> wrote:
> > What can we do? Apart from the obligatory joke of nudging him gently
> > towards Ruby, I think calling his behavior out is a good idea. Cory
> > Doctorow also thinks that "many trolls are perfectly nice in real life
> > -- sometimes, just calling them on the phone and confronting them with
> > the human being at the other end of their attacks is enough to sober
> > them up" [3]. If that fails, banning him would show that we care about
> > the quality of communication and technical prowess is no excuse for
> > abusive behavior.
>
> As Brett pointed out, calling him on his behavior seems to meet with
> pretty much zero success as far as modifying his future behavior goes.
> The problem with banning him in general is that that has its own
> consequences (and as Brett pointed out, how exactly do we do that?).
> Banning him for specific actions (such as editing the Guidelines)
> seems sensible.  We basically booted him off the infrastructure mailing
> list (I don't remember if it was a formal ban or not) when he was being
> off-topic and annoying there.
>
> > All in all, is anyone of the opinion that losing him as a community
> > member is worse than keeping him around?
>
> If losing him was the only consequence this would be pretty much a
> no-brainer.  However, it is likely the consequences of a general ban
> would be more widespread than that (negative publicity, etc).
>
> --David
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