"I should mention that I haven't seen anything at all to think that we'd need this, but I'm a firm believer that all free software communities should have Codes

"I should mention that I haven't seen anything at all to think that we'd need this, but I'm a firm believer that all free software communities should have Codes of Conduct, just in case." "because the participants in this thread would rather have a smaller but safer community rather than a larger but more dangerous (for marginalized people) community" It all makes sense now.