On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
The important question, I propose as a conjecture, is that it doesn't matter whether someone irritates the core posters, since it won't change their behavior in any substantive way.
A number of people including me have reduced participating in this list because of how abrasive the conversations were at one point. So I wouldn't say it has no real effect. I agree that it affects the casual contributors more however.