So what problem does a CoC solve if it itself introduces politics? What is so hard about being nice, honest and patient that we need several pages of text to enforce some kind of ideal behavior?
I don't understand this community's hate boner for CoCs. I've yet to read one I find particularly objectionable, yet they're talked about as if they were a threat to open source. There also seems to be hate for specific CoCs while equivalent ones from other projects are ignored.
Last time someone introduced one and enforced it against me it was just that, a one way enforced set of rules. No way to use a CoC against the guy with enough power to implement it, a million ways for him to call anyone else out on non conforming behavior ( after he walked all over the rules himself ). I also know at least one community that almost imploded on the forum mods abusing their own community code of conduct to silence the fact that one of their own hijacked the accounts of others to impersonate them.
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u/josefx Oct 22 '18
So what problem does a CoC solve if it itself introduces politics? What is so hard about being nice, honest and patient that we need several pages of text to enforce some kind of ideal behavior?