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I read the text of the first comment as a warning to be prepared that the world is full of people who aren't part of the "code of conduct" culture wars, and so
by oldmanjay 11y ago
I read the text of the first comment as a warning to be prepared that the world is full of people who aren't part of the "code of conduct" culture wars, and so it's best to know that assholes may just come down on you.
Taking that comment as a sign of combativeness is definitely a signal of thin skin. Does that count as irony? Probably not.
- mahouse 11y agoI must say also that if you need a code of conduct, you are on the wrong track. A code of conduct shows that you (as a project leader) or your community can't deal with human issues using common sense, so you need a list of guidelines for that. So codes of conduct are better avoided.
- oldmanjay 11y agoCommon sense doesn't scale. That's just a simple, observable fact. Relying upon it is asking for capricious leadership that grows increasingly opaque (and probably less satisfactory) as time passes.
- arjie 11y agoCodes of conduct are just an effort to constrain conversation to a known-good state instead of attempting to achieve a state that permits all good conversation at the risk of permitting some bad. It's the equivalent of `-Wall -Werror -Wextra`. Your compiler will then reject some valid programs, but it will also prevent some unfortunate situations. This is just a trade-off one chooses in running a community, and some people choose one and others the other. It doesn't have to be a Clash of Civilisations debate.