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I participate in a lot of communities that have CoCs. Never read any of them. It shouldn't take a document to show respect to other people in the community, sav
by yawboakye 7y ago
I participate in a lot of communities that have CoCs. Never read any of them. It shouldn't take a document to show respect to other people in the community, save a few heated moments (it's human nature). In my opinion, public participants don't need to check the CoC before calling out behavior A as inappropriate. I'll call out what I consider inappropriate behavior without checking with the CoC, and try to bring the other person to my point of view.
- jcahill 7y agoso you substitute your own private, undocumented, ever-shifting, tone-driven value system for any given discourse context's set of actually codified rules. that's still a CoC. you've just added entitlement.
- yawboakye 7y agoGot it. I didn't know we renamed it from morals to CoC. TIL.
- jamiemchale 7y agoAnd this is totally fine! CoCs are there for the end-of-the-line decisions where the "being reasonable" options have been exhausted. They are also useful sometimes for setting the tone for meetings / events. The various uses and normal behaviour are not mutually exclusive!