Code-of-Conduct VS No-Code-of-Conduct?

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7 points·smefb··3 comments

The original article which sparked this issue (http://dancerscode.com/blog/why-the-open-code-of-conduct-isn...) states that CoCs will cause people to censor themselves out of fear of offending people.

I think this is fine. You should think about how you will make people feel and how people will interpret what you say. And this is good for you, too. By empathizing with the listener, you can find more diplomatic and effective ways to communicate. You'll reach more people.

And if you can't think of a way to do that (which I think is unlikely in most cases) then maybe your thoughts deserve marination and should be shared later, or perhaps not at all.

should is relative. I'm not sure I can agree that it's my responsibility to care how other people feel, or their responsibility to care how I feel.

It's nice. And I'd hope that would be the default mode. But if you're having a bad day and don't have the patience for a lazy question and instead send me over to lmgtfy, I don't think you've done anything wrong. It's not your responsibility to provide me some service for free just because you've put some code into the world I think might be useful to me.

That assumes rational, good-faith listeners, though, who aren't just looking to enforce their political views. Opalgate permanently poisoned that well.

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