Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

Okay. I will not reply to them. Enough mental cycles wasted

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 1:11 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Friday, January 15, 2021, Hemil Ruparel <hemilruparel2002(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am not asking people to get banned the moment they ask easy questions.
>> I am 18. Believe me I have done that too (way more than i would like to
>> admit ;P). I am just saying we should guide them. But there are some people
>> who do not wish to be guided. They just want spoonfed answers which is
>> untolerable in my opinion. You need to be ready to learn on your own. And
>> attempt to struggle with your problem for at least a few hours before
>> asking for help
>>
>
> Please consider taking the not top-posting request to heart.
>
> This is part of what I was referring to - while you feel strongly about
> this position the moderators are not going to ban people for this behavior,
> nor should they. The community can impose a punishment by simply not
> responding, or can avoid conflict by giving answers, while some cases
> result in attempts to educate (which I do on occasion...and which frankly,
> and correctly, puts me out there for needing rebuke/support as a community
> representative moreso than the questioner).
>
> There is a lot of grey here and untolerable doesn’t fit well and you will
> need to make a personal decision if you find yourself keeping score and
> simply reading that kind of email causes discomfort. On that point, I will
> say that my innate emotional response is quite similar and that I get
> concerned that I act in counter-productive and unhealthy ways at times.
> But its not the responsibility of the project to prevent exposing me to
> situations where my highly judgmental nature is riled, and it should tell
> me if I fail to control my response to that emotion. At the same time,
> acknowledging that people such as myself do generally positively represent
> the community it is does behoove them to consider providing support/tools
> that can mitigate this human aspect of the request/reply dynamic.
>
> David J.
>
>