Re: Code of Conduct: Is it time?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> 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,
>>>
>>> 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?
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>
> 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.

CoC:
1: Use our code how you want
2: Don't sue us
3: Don't be a jerk

done.