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I'm not sure why there's ever been a need for a code of conduct beyond the golden rule. Just, like, be nice and stuff.
by imsofuture 11y ago
I'm not sure why there's ever been a need for a code of conduct beyond the golden rule. Just, like, be nice and stuff.
- maxerickson 11y agoThere are a lot of people that really don't have any idea how to be nice and stuff. One thing codes of conduct do is clarify what other people are expecting (hopefully they clarify the shared expectations of the group).
- imsofuture 11y agoEarnestly, I don't think there is anyone that doesn't know how to be nice. There might be people that aren't nice or don't want to be nice but let's not confuse that with actual ignorance.
- coldtea 11y ago>There are a lot of people that really don't have any idea how to be nice and stuff. The CoC won't help those people in the first place.
- maxerickson 11y agoI believe it would simplify conversations about negative behavior. Point to the CoC and say that it is an agreement to avoid acting in certain ways, please don't act in those ways. I don't think it is a cure all or anything, but it at least provides an opportunity to avoid counter productive arguments, and at worst is still incrementally less arbitrary than banning/shunning difficult people outside of a CoC.
- x0x0 11y agoExcept some people aren't nice, and people don't even agree on a common definition of nice. What then?
- sarciszewski 11y agoSome of us have the capacity to be nice, but choose to be an asshole because it's funnier.
- AdieuToLogic 11y agoSome are born assholes, some achieve great assholeness, and some have assholes thrust upon them. (with apologies to Billy Shakespeare)
- grayclhn 11y agoBecause people can reasonably disagree about what "being nice" means.