can you elaborate on that? I think there is a nontrivial cost to overreaching CoC statements that, eg, explicitly state that they'll only punish certain kinds of racism, but I'm not sure how this case would qualify.
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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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because religious discrimination is generally frowned on, even if you let people know that you'll be ignoring their transgressions for the moment
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as someone very scared by slippery slopes I think this is a legit general point, regardless of whether it applies to the sqlite devs in particular
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I mean, if he sincerely wanted to not alienate everyone who's not a christian he could've just trimmed it to only include the secular rules. They were included for a reason.
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dunno bout "well known" but it's a valid criticism in any case. you pick your poisons. i choose less structure over more structure. i think the downsides are more manageable and the systems are less prone to becoming entangled in Machiavellian political struggles.
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IMHO when everything's informal/uncodified you end up with _more_ power struggles, uneven application of informally-defined rules based on who's popular, etc
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You have more struggles but each struggle is lower-stakes, less likely to tear the community apart. But I can see good reasons why "you have to tolerate some oppression for the good of the group" doesn't really comfort anyone.
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