The ever-expanding-CoC made me think a lot about the parallels to how laws are made. I do agree the prolific laundry list of Do/Don’t criteria becomes more men

The ever-expanding-CoC made me think a lot about the parallels to how laws are made. I do agree the prolific laundry list of Do/Don’t criteria becomes more mentally hampering over time to circumnavigate. Realistically speaking, If there was feedback/questions to bring up, I would just want to leave a comment putting my thoughts into words as efficiently as possible to then continue reviewing. Not a snarky, underhanded jerk comment like something an opponent would say in a multiplayer videogame - just a regular, normal person’s comment in a plain way. For example, “What is the goal of this section?”, “Why use X method?”, “Please use ABC naming convention for the function here :)“. Some of the “Do” ways are just about repackaging a concise statement into a more lengthy form for the sake of issue indirectness (or trying to avoid anything negative). This to me seems less efficient in a code review because it then takes longer to jump through all the mental gymnastics and mulling over phrasing of how to write a sentence referring to a piece of code. I’m not at all saying be a ruthless hard-ass with the emotion of a robot. It’s just policies like a CoC that grows and grows and grows to retroactively counteract every single offense or misgiving feels like drudging through a bunch of HR bullshit. Coders already have enough mental exertion as it is. The simpler and shorter the list for the CoC, the better (IMO). Will it encompass every possible instance or example? No. Will it please everyone? No. Will it get the job done so everyone can go home? Yes. Look, every coder is going to make a mistake at some point and every reviewer is going to make a mistake, too. It’s ok to respectfully agree/disagree/debate perspectives about the code concisely. There is no need to turn an (unfun) diligence process into a pissing contest or a witch-hunt or a gatekeeping exercise. The people who do are wasting everyone’s time. Accept responsibility. Accept feedback. Reach a resolution and move on.