Re: troglodytes

Hahah, as someone with extensive experience of being banned by various
CoC-waving Python online communities' authorities I really enjoyed the
saga. Watching little men grasp for power on the Web to squash their
opponents never stops to amuse me.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM Michael Torrie via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:

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On 8/13/24 3:24 AM, Robin Becker via Python-list wrote:

I am clearly one of the troglodytes referred to in recent discussions around the PSF. I've been around in python land
for far too long, my eyesight fails etc etc.
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I feel strongly that a miscarriage of justice has been made in the 3-month banning of a famous python developer from
some areas of discourse.
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I have had my share of disagreements with others in the past and have been sometimes violent or disrespectful in emails.
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I might have been in the kill list of some, but never banned from any mailing lists.
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Honest dialogue is much better than imposed silence.
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-- grumblingly-yrs --
Robin Becker

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Agreed.  Here's a good summary of the issue:
https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim
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The PSF has really screwed this up.  Really embarrassing, frankly.  And
sad.
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