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[python-committers] CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

Carol Willing willingc at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 11:12:06 EDT 2018 
> On Sep 21, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 21/09/2018 à 14:45, Paul Moore a écrit :
>> 
>> It's not likely to be a practical option on a mailing list, but in
>> primary school (which the whole conversation felt like) a likely
>> response would have been to put *everyone* involved in a time-out for
>> a period of cooling off, to think about how their behaviour was
>> unacceptable. Think for example of a group of kids taunting each other
>> until one of them snaps and hits someone.
> 
> With a forum system, the thread would just have been locked.
> 
> However, you may not physically lock a mailing-list thread, but you can
> post a moderator's announcement asking everyone to stop posting to that
> thread, and warning that failing to comply would get the offender e.g. a
> 7-day ban (regardless of the contents of their post).
> 

This seems like a very reasonable stop gap until we have better moderation tools. 

> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
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