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Moderators are nothing. Developers are everything. Moderators can resign all they want. The important thing is that developers do not resign. Those CoCs are get

• dathinab 5y ago
  Many of the Moderator are also developers. BurntSushi (who made the PR) while also being a moderate is more widely known of his technical excellence and grate contributions, like the regex crate and ripgrep. Developer do resign over non technical topics, no one wants to contribute to a project where they don't feel welcome. Toxicity in the internet is getting out of hand, CoCs are just a consequence of this. It's basically impossible to run a larger community without a CoC (weather or not it's written down or implied). I have yet to see any larger community which doesn't have a CoC and doesn't has problems with toxicity, sexism and/or discrimination. I have seen more then one or two highly talented people leaving the tech sector because of them encountering too much toxicity, sexism and/or discrimination on their first contacts with the sector (both open source and in companies).