...community members "are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that honors the overarching spirit of the rule, even if they disagree with specific details. Polite and professional discussion is always welcomed, from anyone." Not actually exclusionary, so whatever.
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I'm a DevOps/SRE. I'm paid to think about systemic failure modes.
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chilling effects are a real thing. the CoC is intended to chill certain types of speech (which is probably a good thing) but it's a blunt instrument and I'm far too Hobbesian in my worldview to trust any organization to be able to utilize this blunt instrument forever.
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the really nasty things about written codes is that they become more and more difficult to dislodge and revise once adopted, even after clear problems emerge. orgs that don't yet have a problem due to their CoC are still operating with a risk codified into their org rules.
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so the question remains: what is to be done in cases where some org members behave badly? I can't think of any better solutions that handling things on a case-by-case basis and stop LARPing justice court. There's no due process here. This isn't a court and nobody is a judge.
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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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so why not a CoC that’s like 16 centuries old then? that’s lindy af, as the kids say
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I dunno man, a lot of it reeks of cultism. I kind of am absolutely okay with trans people and gay people and even some weirder stuff, but boy does, e.g. Covenant CoC reek of interventionist activist busybody shit I would not touch with a teflon-coated rod.
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I suppose much like "laws", sufficiently well engineered CoCs might be of nonzero utility, but these current iterations are a huge tire fire, with added malus of being "fake laws"
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It'd easier to accept if those promoting them and abusing them weren't the same people. If you can plainly observe someone has no interest in following their own rules, and this is no obstacle to their agenda, why would you think adopting them will serve the community in any way?
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