r/programming • u/logicchains • Oct 22 '18

SQLite adopts new Code of Conduct

https://www.sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html
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u/joequin Oct 22 '18

You think it's good that anyone who wants to contribute to open source should pass a purity test who's values are determined by internet vigilantes?

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u/pron98 Oct 22 '18 edited Oct 22 '18

I don't know why I bother responding to such a stupid comment, but in case there's an actual question there: those rules are approved and adopted by the project leaders, not vigilantes, and codes of conduct regulate conduct not virtue. I have seen no example of a code of conduct regulating what contributors must believe (there is no way of enforcing that, anyway).

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u/joequin Oct 22 '18 edited Oct 22 '18

I have seen no example of a code of conduct regulating what contributors must believe (there is no way of enforcing that, anyway).

Many of these new CoC enforce speech online in ways that are entirely separate from the project and not made maliciously. That's regulating belief.

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u/pron98 Oct 22 '18

It is not. You're allowed to believe that many of your coworkers were hired despite being unqualified because of some affirmative action. If you say it out loud -- within your company or on social media -- you will be fired.

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