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Thanks for pointing out that terrible wart. Codes of Conduct are typically warning signs in themselves, but many of them - including this one - are markedly rep

Thanks for pointing out that terrible wart. Codes of Conduct are typically warning signs in themselves, but many of them - including this one - are markedly repressive and authoritarian: Criticism is forbidden except to the extent and in the forms which illustrious project leadership decrees (and is of course determined ex-post-facto), and it is the duty of leadership to excommunicate/cancel people who act in ways they don't like, for the greater good of the community. Naturally, I've phrased it in unforgiving terms, but it's all in the text.

aappleby 4y ago
... did you even read the code of conduct?
- einpoklum 4y ago
  Oh, I did. And with a legal background including arguing multiple cases in different courts in my country. That's why it's scary.
astrange 4y ago
"Code of Conduct" is an unnecessarily formal way of saying "forum rules", but no-one would say a forum is better if you don't write a rules page. (But the point of forum rules is to constrain the mods, not the users.)
- einpoklum 4y ago
  > But the point of forum rules is to constrain the mods, not the users. Indeed. And these "forum rules" do the opposite: They hallow inappropriate behavior by "moderators": Arbitrary and extreme sanctions, lack of transparency, lack of minimal due process, lack of consistency etc.