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What problem? We didn't need CoC for 20 years, why do we need it now?

• fatbird 8y ago
  CoCs have been needed for 20 years and more. Now that we're getting them, there's discomfort at the disruption to the status quo, but it's a status quo that desperately needs disruption.
  • wyoh 8y ago
    >CoCs have been needed for 20 years and more No they have not. Everything was and is perfectly fine and cordial without them.
    • pavel_lishin 8y ago
      > Everything was and is perfectly fine and cordial without them. For you.
• pavel_lishin 8y ago
  Not having something isn't the same as not needing something. "We didn't need X for Y years" is an excellent way of preventing progress, and/or gatekeeping. I feel like this has been covered pretty well online before, but I can expand my thoughts if you'd like.
• Barrin92 8y ago
  because software development has become a professional enterprise, and with that people develop standards on how to interact with each other in large and small organisations, rather than just winging it in a garage. Anyway, "we didn't need X then, why do we need X now" is an absolutely atrocious argument. Because demands and communities change obviously, and with them how we conduct and organise our communities and organisations.
  • katastic 8y ago
    I agree, it's only in the last four years that software has been professional. Before then, it was just naked fat virgin neckbeards sitting in basements hitting a hammer against a rock. No software of any significance has ever been written before 2014.
• catacombs 8y ago
  A lot of sensitive people work in the field now, and they need a set of rules so other people won't be mean to them.