# Censorship issues and community behavior

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/censorship-issues-and-community-behavior/7442>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [December 1, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/censorship-issues-and-community-behavior/7442 "2017-12-01T17:30:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/censorship-issues-and-community-behavior/7442/11 "2017-12-01T19:27:44Z")

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Even though you are unwilling to provide details, I am considering the possibility that you are referring to my reply to you [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-improve-plots-jls-look/7409/10). My understanding of the whole thing is the following: you were pinging Tom Breloff (who is, AFAIK, not a current maintainer of `Plots.jl`) about his plans for the package; in a topic that was about a very vague claim about the asthetics of `Plots.jl` plots.

I maintain that mentioning people with the `@` feature should be used sparingly, and overusing it is rude. I understand that we all want to get replies to our questions, want them quick, and ideally from the people who know most about a topic. However, it is important to understand that people participate in this forum in their free time, and may prefer to do so in a time-constrained manner, or not at all for a while. Overusing the `@` feature to compete for their attention may drive them away from this forum.

Also, specifically, I think that `Plots.jl` maintainers have been getting a lot of flak lately. I think I did the correct thing when I asked the OP of that topic to [provide an MWE and/or open an issue](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-improve-plots-jl-default-appearance/7441/1). I think that pinging an ex-maintainer on an unrelated issue in that topic was not helpful in any way.

Finally, if I am indeed the person you are referring to, if would prefer to be told about it, instead of having to guess from vague references like above (especially in a context where words like “censorship” and “dictator” come up). I absolutely do not mind open discussion about these things (in fact, the opposite), and I think that giving references to actual comments you consider out of line is the healthiest way to solve the issue.

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