In my experience, it absolutely does help. But everyone has their own experiences. > should see why you removed them, and again, a made-up "contract" will not

In my experience, it absolutely does help. But everyone has their own experiences. > should see why you removed them, and again, a made-up "contract" will not be needed. It's not a matter of the action being transparent, it's the motivations. Sometimes, it's not clear to community members why the action was taken, if there's no CoC or rules. "They're being an asshole" is a lot more subjective than "They were breaking the rules" > It's ok to stand up for yourself and simply say, without pointing to a document you just put in your repo, that: "John Doe was behaving poorly, and I don't want to deal with him, I banned him, you don't need to like it, but it's my decision". Just my 2c. Sure, this might work for a small community or group, but the fiasco with Nix seems to suggest this isn't the case at a certain size. Some people apparently want accountability and transparency from their moderators. > Just my 2c... I don't want to add more procedures to my open source projects or voluntary organizing. I'm doing it because I like it, not because I want to pretend I'm at a townhall meeting. Great! That's fine! Not every community needs such things. Some do.