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[Python-ideas] How to respond to trolling

Ned Batchelder ned at nedbatchelder.com
Tue Jan 10 10:56:51 EST 2017 
On 1/10/17 10:43 AM, Ivan Levkivskyi wrote:
> On 10 January 2017 at 16:29, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org
> <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:
>
>     I think a much more effective response would have been a
>     resounding silence.
>
>
> I agree.
>

I don't like to use the term "trolling" except for people who are trying
to annoy people.  I think the recent thread was misguided, but not
malicious.  I do agree that the thread should have ended at "unless you
are seriously proposing a change to the language, this is not the right
list."

--Ned.

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