That's a naive interpretation, like saying a Christian CoC only alienates Satanists and New Atheist edgelords. Sure, it alienates them a lot, but also alienates lots of regular people a little. It might be worth the cost, but it is a cost.
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there's a pretty well known failure mode there, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness …
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Chiming back in — I think CoCs can be useful to set expectations and give community members a pathway for redress when they're wronged. But really the quality of the leadership is what determines whether the CoC will be a useful tool as intended, or a bludgeon
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sure, nothing's a silver bullet. I just think that having _some_ CoC_ is generally better than leaving it up to opaque/informal hierarchies
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suppose there was a highly motivated and organized group of _right wing_ activists entering FOSS orgs and pressuring the orgs to adopt CoCs that subtly promoted their tribal value system. Would you feel the same way about it?
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I think you make a good point, but there's also an argument that the opposite happens with pushing against CoCs like, both sides weaponize the FL/OSS project in question regardless of whether they actually contribute to it (I am definitely guilty of this!)
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right, pushing for and pushing against, it's the same culture war polarization we see everywhere. culture war armistice is the solution. CoCs are a weapon in the culture war. Time to put the weapons down.
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expect to see more tradcon, rightwing encoded CoCs introduced in the future. SQLite is a relatively light-hearted example of it. There will be nastier ones coming.
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That alleviates the symptom but if you dislike a CoC and manage to prevent its adoption, your cases would still have to be handled by the sort of people who thought the CoC was a good idea, only now they are not constrained by rules.
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well put. I think maybe it's just the case that bad/malicious power structures can ruin anything
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