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I wish more code of conducts were written like this.
by daft_pink 2y ago
I wish more code of conducts were written like this.
- cryptonector 2y agoNo no, we must make endless lists of specific behaviors we want and don't want.
- dartharva 2y agoimmibis explains why that is better in one of the comment threads above: > The main purpose of a CoC is to point to it when you want to ban someone. It's an accountability sink - instead of saying you want to ban someone, you say you have to ban them because they violated the written rules.
- Terr_ 2y agoThat reminds me of some parenting advice I saw once: Sometimes we do children a disservice when we pretend that some Mysterious Universal Force demands a certain outcome, as if we (the parent) had no agency in setting things up that way or acting as an enforcement-arm. While refusing to own "because I don't want you do" saves argument in the short term, it may burden them with certain habits of thought that aren't so useful in adulthood.
- cryptonector 2y agoYou completely missed that u/immibis was being sardonic.
- immibis 2y agoNot at all. That's exactly how CoCs are used in practice. Have you ever witnessed a CoC-related dispute?
- cryptonector 2y agoIf you're going to be arbitrary then you might as well not use a detailed CoC. Pretending to not be arbitrary when you are being arbitrary just makes you phony and lame.
- immibis 2y agoIf you are overtly arbitrary, people will tell you not to be arbitrary.
- cryptonector 2y agoYour deadpan delivery is really quite good.
- tbrownaw 2y agoBadness must be enumerated.
- anonym29 2y agoFirst enumerated mode of badness: Failure to enumerate badness