Re: CoC [Final v2]

On Jan 24, 2016, at 5:35 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> You are wrong and the fact that we have gone from a motion style, to a story style, to a continually and incrementally improving draft proves it. This is the largest feature the community has tried to design and implement. It is going to take a little time.

"The document has changed" is not a consensus emerging. A significant portion of the participants don't want a CoC at all, and they are feeling ignored. A significant portion of the participants don't want this CoC, because they feel it's not strong enough, and they're feeling ignored. Those two parties are not trivial; in fact, they make up most of the people who are commenting right now.

> This shouldn't cause any rifts.

And, yet, it is.

> If you don't want to constructively participate in the development of this feature, nobody is asking you to.

Participation does not need to be limited to copy-editing. Of all the ways to develop a community CoC, we're engaged in just about the worst possible one right now.

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