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I assume you have some standards of behavior, though, right? If a member of your group, say, punched another member, you’d probably kick him out, right? If so:
by jacobian 9y ago
I assume you have some standards of behavior, though, right? If a member of your group, say, punched another member, you’d probably kick him out, right?
If so: you have a code of conduct, you just don’t have a _written_ code of conduct. You’re relying on the relative homogeneity and shared context of the group to know and follow the unwritten rules.
This tends to work ok for smaller more homogenous groups with shared social values. But unwritten rules fail for people on the margins, and falls apart at scale.
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoI think that is a fair point. Our group is relatively homogeneous in our interest in HAM radio (and there aren't that many of us), so when we find others that share the same interest, perhaps we're more likely to overlook any political/religious/racial differences...
- bryson 9y agoJust FYI, "ham" isn't an acronym and shouldn't be capitalized. It comes from the pejorative "ham-fisted", which professional telegraph operators used to describe radio amateurs back when the only option was morse code. (Source: I have a general license, like trivia, and am a pedant for better or worse.)
- skookumchuck 9y ago> But unwritten rules fail for people on the margins, and falls apart at scale. How ever did society survive before written CoC's?
- andrepd 9y agoBadly. I for one am glad Bronze Age people had the brilliant idea to write down their laws, as I'm glad Romans and Byzantines decided to spread their legal system around.
- skookumchuck 9y agoI suspect we're the first to attempt to codify rude behavior.
- 2trill2spill 9y ago> I suspect we're the first to attempt to codify rude behavior. Many private groups have rules on good and bad behavior. There's simply nothing new about it.
- skookumchuck 9y agoI never heard of any before about 20 years ago when speech codes started appearing on campuses. I've been going to conferences for 40 years, and the first time I had to sign a CoC for one was last year. It was simply if you behaved badly, you were asked to leave. Nobody needed a definition of rude behavior.
- Slansitartop 9y agoThat's an interesting observation: a shift towards using a law-code paradigm for regulating personal social behavior, from an informal consensus-based one. I suspect that has something to do with the fact that law codes are legislated by a select body, which is more susceptible to influence than an informal consensus.