Re: Re: Internals and Newcomers and the Sidelines (WAS: Adopt Code of Conduct)

> On 13 Jan 2016, at 16:15, Ryan Pallas <derokorian@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Rouven Weßling <me@rouvenwessling.de> >> wrote: >> >> TL;DR: If you find yourself replying more than once an hour to a thread, >> something is wrong. > > Yup, this is explicitly part of "mailing list rules" > > Do not post when you are angry. Any post can wait a few hours. Review > your post after a good breather or a good nights sleep. > > Try to wait a bit longer before > sending your replies to give other people more time to digest your answers > and more importantly give you the opportunity to make sure that you > aggregate your current position into a single mail instead of multiple > ones. [1] > > > Of course, it also says things like "Do not top post" and we see how often > that happens... > > [1] > > http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob_plain;f=README.MAILINGLIST_RULES;hb=HEAD Oh, wow. I guess that shows how well I know the rules. *cough* To me that shifts the question a bit to: What can be done to have people follow these rules? I mean in a parallel thread someone kept top posting after being reminded of the rules. I doubt it would go any better if I were to tell someone they are writing too many mails in a row. Best regards Rouven