Netiquette

Anybody who has been online for longer than 15 minutes knows this: during a discussion, no matter how innocent the topic, there is always a possibility that people will become emotional, and a conversation will leave the civilized parts of the spectrum. Kaggle is no exception to the rule, so the community has guidelines for appropriate conduct: https://www.kaggle.com/community-guidelines.

Those apply not just to discussions, but also to Notebooks and other forms of communication. The main points you should keep in mind when interacting on Kaggle are:

• Don’t slip into what Scott Adams calls the mind-reading illusion: Kaggle is an extremely diverse community of people from all over the world (for many of them, English is not their first language), so maintaining nuance is a massive challenge. Don’t make assumptions and try to clarify whenever possible.
• Do not make things personal; Godwin’s law is there for a reason. In particular,...