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No no, we must make endless lists of specific behaviors we want and don't want.
by cryptonector 2y ago
No 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