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This is a particularly ill-chosen thread to deliberately try to re-flame this flamewar. Most threads are.

Heaven forbid that someone responds to a point made in another post. On a public internet discussion forum. In a discussion about the context and effects of divisive and difficult decisions. /s

Python 3 breakage is basically flamebait by now.

Heaven, sadly, cannot forbid poopy responses but we can encourage others (and ourselves) not to post them.

Notice how you've only added noise in the discussion, and made a casual comment on something somebody wrote a 10+ comment meta-thread?

Plus rudely assigned intentions ("flamethrower" etc) to others?

To be fair, the person stating that Python 3 breakage was a fantastic decision probably should've avoided referring to that as such, as it almost certainly invites disagreement on a controversial topic.

No, that's giving the flamemongers a flamer's veto. It's a perfectly sensible thing to mention when talking about the difficulties of leading the Python project and offering an opinion on how Guido van Rossum handled them. Picking out that one opinion and yelling little more than 'fite me' back at the person is not a perfectly sensible thing.

Then if someone disagrees & an argument erupts, then that should not be surprising - that post is equally as culpable for igniting a well-discussed issue by posting something clearly so opinionated/leaning towards one side of an issue that at this point one should have known better than to even allow a conversation to digress in that direction if that person wants to avoid that discussion.

To ignore that is to straight up deny what can only be described as flamebait.

It is not flamebait to say 'I think so-and-so handled a difficult problem well', especially as part of larger point. It's flamy to respond 'u wat m8?'. It's not a complicated thing and there's no 'fairness' in treating these things as the same.

>This is a particularly ill-chosen thread to deliberately try to re-flame this flamewar

Apparently it's the right thread to be rude and to assign intentions to people you don't know though?

And all because they dared say their opinion on a subject you're sensitive about?

How about that: people can have any opinion they like on Python 3, including considering it a botched migration process and a ho-hum update. And it's totally legit for them to speak about that. And it's not your place to censor them, or act up any time they express their opinions.

You can either add your arguments, or skip reading their comments. How about that?

Opinions are fine. But "Did you forgot the /s tag?" is antagonistic. Please don't antagonize.

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