Re: Code of Conduct plan

Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> There is a risk that if we adopt a CoC, and nothing happens, and the
> committee does nothing, that they will feel like a failure, and get
> involved when it was best they did nothing. I think the CoC tries to
> address that, but nothing is perfect.

Yeah, a busybody CoC committee could do more harm than good.
The way the CoC tries to address that is that the committee can't
initiate action of its own accord: somebody has to bring it a complaint.

Of course, a member of the committee could go out and find a "problem"
and then file a complaint --- but then they'd have to recuse themselves
from dealing with that complaint, so there's an incentive not to.

regards, tom lane