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I 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
by mahouse 11y ago
I 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.