The DIP Process

[Abdulhaq]

On Sunday, 3 March 2019 at 16:29:03 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:

>
> Thanks for taking the time to respond to this one. I'm putting 
> up a wiki:
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/?title=Guidelines_for_Professional_Conduct
>
> The rest of this response is an effort to get clarification on 
> your guidelines and hopefully put together a good wiki for them.
>

>
>> 4. obsequiousness
>
> Had to look this one up, but even after that I'm not sure what 
> you meant by this one.

It means, don't suck up to Walter/Andrei to curry favour with 
them.

Jonathan, you have a high signal to noise ratio and you are 
usually very 'professional'. I think your time would be better 
spent thinking/designing/coding than updating wiki pages about 
social issues.

But in any case, I'll add a few personal thoughts on my own rules 
for contributing to forums, perhaps others will find them 
beneficial.

1) Don't post when you are angry.

2) Target / address all the readers of the comment, not just the 
person who posted the comment you are replying to. Trying to 'win 
the argument' with the poster who you are replying to is nearly 
always a waste of time and just ends up in aggravation and even 
lost sleep.

3) Always be polite even when someone is being gratuitously rude 
and insulting.

4) Give people the benefit of the doubt.

Readers will notice, these rules are not a recipe to win a 
technical argument. Technical discussion is the interesting part 
of the debate, but in the absence of the social rules it can 
quickly descend into a slanging match.