Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.008 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'exception': 0.03; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'responding': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'indeed,': 0.09; 'occasionally': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'terry': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'troll': 0.16; 'unhelpful': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'jan': 0.18; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'am,': 0.27; 'topic': 0.27; 'question': 0.27; 'joe': 0.27; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'all.': 0.28; 'post': 0.28; 'writes:': 0.29; 'communities': 0.30; 'helpful': 0.30; 'expect': 0.31; 'you?': 0.32; "aren't": 0.33; 'him.': 0.33; 'point,': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'done': 0.34; 'same.': 0.35; 'community': 0.35; 'pm,': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'does': 0.37; 'rather': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'fact': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'most': 0.61; 'email addr:yahoo.com': 0.61; 'worth': 0.63; 'different': 0.63; 'ever': 0.63; 'making': 0.64; 'overall': 0.66; 'response.': 0.67; 'hostile': 0.84; 'lying': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; 'seen...': 0.84; 'subject:you': 0.88; 'responses': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs? Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:27:22 -0500 References: <512cb0a0$0$30001$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-75-251-66.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1362018468 news.xs4all.nl 6842 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35116 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:40097 On 2/27/2013 8:17 PM, rurpy@yahoo.com wrote: > On 02/26/2013 11:43 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > In which JoePie91 writes: > ...the community around Python is one of the most hostile and > unhelpful communities around any programming-related topic that > I have ever seen... > >> To me, this is a lying troll rant worth less than most of RantingRick's >> posts. > > Rather making his point, aren't you? Not at all. Over the past 15 years I have make 1000s of polite helpful responses to perhaps 100s of different people. Others have done much the same. The fact that I am hostile to and occasionally make an exception to not responding to lying troll rants does not at all prove his lie. Indeed, Joe did not post here, and I was not speaking to him. I intended my complete post to be overall helpful to people who do read here. If Joe ever does post a polite question here, I hope and expect he would get a polite response. -- Terry Jan Reedy