Codes of Conduct can never replace good intentions, mutual respect and human decency, but in the right hands, they can be an excellent tool for bullying and abuse.
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Let's see. Not having a code of conduct means you don't have a way to escalate a response to a bad actor up to the point of throwing them out.
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Usually not true; every stable social structure evolves mechanisms for that. Conversely CoCs allow power grabs by sociopathic parasites and ideologues, because they replace social standing and merit with a legalistic machinery that can put group resources against the group itself
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I think you both generalized it too much - IMO it all depends on the constitution of the community - its size, age, diversity and purpose, member relations, power distribution, overlap of formal and informal authority structures, congruence of individual and common goals etc...
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I am so sorry; I did not realize that my statement could be read as "CoCs are bad, and communities should never have them", which is clearly not true. They are a powerful and often indispensable tool, but we should not think of them as automation for good intentions.
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