That is literally a stated aim of the CoC movement in this context. Somehow that gets overlooked.
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I'm sorry to be reductionist, but you have no idea how many allowances get made for smart guys that are awful.
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I'm actually 100% sure he does have an idea. That's what makes this conversation annoying.
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@rvagg could do more to address people who are chronically bad and "eccentric" but self evidently understand their behavior. -
There's a spectrum between people who literally have no idea and people who are being dicks on purpose.
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For the most part, people don't want to be dicks, and hearing that they're causing pain is itself deeply painful.
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So a warning + some advice usually takes care of it. That's really the point of CoCs. To make that feedback socially acceptable.
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Or the reverse, to make "you can't tell me what to say" socially unacceptable.
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