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On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Devin Jeanpierre
<jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Thank you for the lesson in the virtues of bluntness, and why politeness
>> and political correctness is a vice. Never let it be said that I'm not
>> willing to learn from you Rick, so keeping everything you said in mind,
>> let me say this:
>>
>> --[tirade of insults]--
>
> No, please don't.
>
> If Rick is that annoying and harmful to discussion (he is), rather
> than blowing up at him, can we please ban him from the ML? I know that
> usenet cannot be affected, but anyone that cares about productive
> discussions can either maintain a killfile or use the mailing list.
> The state of discussion here as it stands is absurd, what with the
> trolling and irrelevant rants and subsequent explosions of hate.
>
> This list needs stronger moderation. Please.

I think this was a case of misrecognized humour... Rick was saying
that it's better to offend people than to let them be wrong, so Steven
took that style to its obvious extreme.

Also, Rick clearly went into Room 12, when he should have gone to 12A,
next door.[1]

ChrisA

[1] http://www.montypython.net/scripts/argument.php