On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:06:35 -0500 Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> +1. And frankly I would like to suggest that there is another obvious > solution here; pairing a set of guidelines around expected user > behaviour with removing people from the mailing list, or moderating > them, if they do not think that creating a non-toxic environment is > good. > The problem is defining a "toxic environment." One person can find all kinds of offense and rudness in something where another would be appreciating a short, concise response, such as a suggestion to "read the manual." "Toxic" is personal and one can find it wherever one looks, if so minded. I suspect that if one perceives rudeness, one ought to check and see that we haven't left our sensibilities out in the traffic pattern where they are bound to be trampled. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
