Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time?

On 01/05/2016 11:08 AM, Roland van Laar wrote:
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> On January 5, 2016 5:47:16 PM GMT+01:00, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> I had a hard time writing this email. I think Code of Conducts are
>> non-essential, a waste of respectful people's time and frankly if you
>> are going to be a jerk, our community will call you out on it.
>> Unfortunately a lot of people don't agree with that. I have over the
>> course of the last year seen more and more potential users very
>> explicitly say, "I will not contribute to a project or attend a
>> conference that does not have a CoC".
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> Do they give a rational for that?

I don't think I am a good person to rationalize their reasoning because
I don't like the idea of a CoC. That said, I think a lot of boils down
to perception, responsibility, accountability and the fact that a lot of
people are flat out jerks. I am not talking the ball busting type of
jerk but honest, just not nice people or people who vastly lack the
ability to integrate with larger society. Those people tend to need
guidelines for their jerkiness because they will say, "I didn't know I
couldn't do/say XYZ". Whether that is true or not, I have no idea.

JD

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