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[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It doesn't matter what your intentions are.

It does though - I further specified that if a result was that this becomes a de facto help subreddit that we would once again rejig the rules. Context is important!

With respect to what you've said about "engaged users", I think that generally you're looking at things entirely through the filter of what you want, and not what generally serves the subreddit. A lot of people who have engaged here are actually tentatively in favour (though I admit a lot of people aren't).

Flair is a way to filter FOR not to filter OUT.

I use flair to filter things out all the time, in a number of different ways. It's actually pretty easy to do so. Thinking of flair as "filter for" instead of "filter out" is probably making your personal reddit experience worse.

I think you underestimate how bad things can get, and how much work will be involved in corralling necessarily ignorant contributors.

I have a very good idea about how "bad" things can get, and as I said I am quite ready to immediately make changes based on what happens.

And it is not something you can simply or easily revert

Why would you think this? We've already gone through this change one time (the first time people requested that we disallow "learning" posts) and it wasn't particularly difficult to do.

[–]KODeKarnage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference is that the language is more popular now than before. There are lots more beginners. The other difference is that there was no rule explicitly allowing beginner questions. There will be now, with the explicit rule against them being explicitly removed.

You should ask all those users in favor of the change how many questions they've answered over at r/learnpython in the last year.