The SQLite CoC thing is amazing. 1) https://www.sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html … 2) Explanation from the apparent project lead: http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Regarding-CoC-td104277.html#a104336 … 3) Hacker News thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273530#18276906 … 4) /r/programming thread:https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qedai/sqlite_adopts_new_code_of_conduct/ …
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and the thing about policing is, well, it never really stops at the stated limits. once the norms shift towards policing a certain type of person becomes extremely likely to begin accumulating and consolidating power in that community.
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very few CoCs have explicitly objectionable content in them. it's the meta-politics surrounding CoCs that is a huge turn off and a big neon flashing danger sign.
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sure, and I'm not saying there's nothing to worry about in such cases (shitty people do tag along for social capital on occasion), but as someone not particularly affected an alternate hypothesis might be that you're not really noticing the problem because you're not a target
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CoC adoption is most harmful to its potential beneficiaries. (I can cite examples privately). As Coates convincingly argues in the conclusion to “Open Letter to My Son,” the reification of categories is the foundation of category-based discrimination.
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I'm not really convinced, but perhaps you have a unique perspective on this. Why do you only feel able to share examples privately, out of curiosity?
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The most prominent egregious example I can name wasn’t weaponized by Shanley or whomever to destroy the project. tl;dr no identity issue was mentioned until the well-meaning BDFL proposed a very mild CoC, then people’s very niche views on racial terminology came out, BDFL quit.
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My view is that if starting a project, a minimal CoC is a good idea. For the Linux kernel or OpenBSD, where trolls run the fucking thing, yeah, get a CoC in there. But if there isn’t a problem, and civility is already the de facto norm, introducing one is a big backlash liability
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...because it sends the signal that identity politics might be pertinent to a pull request or bug report. One of the coolest things about F/OSS software is it can be a safe place to take valuable contributions from terrible people (for anyone’s given definition of outgroup).
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