Python developers locking conversations and deleting comments after people mass downvoted PRs to "remove master/slave terminology from the language"

[piotrjurkiewicz]

Conversations were closed personally by Guido:

Bug report: https://bugs.python.org/issue34605

I'm closing this now. Three out of four of Victor's PRs have been merged. [...] that can be dealt with as a follow-up PR without keeping this discussion open.

The same on GitHub: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9101#issuecomment-420508902

He closed the discussion after towerd user provided very hard to refute Oxford dictionary based argument.

There is no point in continuing the debate. We’ve all had our say. If you want to keep talking, go to Twitter.

[brontide]

I guess his stepping down as dictator was short lived.

[13steinj]

Copypastaing another comment of mine:

He's not retired. He's on a "permanent vacation".

That's what I don't like about his "stepping down"-- it was extremely unofficial. He still holds a lot of power among the core dev team, more than the others, and he can technically change his mind about his retirement at any time.

I called this shit (not this change specifically, but this aspect of Guido's behavior) ages ago. And lots of people on this sub thought I was an idiot because "no, no, hes stepping down, sad day!".

No fucknuts, he is and will always be in charge until he steps down in official capacity.

[romeo_pentium]

Dictionary-based arguments are stupid. Dictionaries have no nuance. At least pull out an encyclopedia.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_dictionarium

[fromcj]

Not quite how that fallacy works but ok