He had the audacity of standing up against black-rimmed eyeglass freedom fighters. How DARE he!
How DARE he suggest a code of conduct is bullshit and infesting projects left and right. I deleted my twitter because these goons are known to stir up shit when there is none.
Bleh, will this ever get better? http://archive.is/f2KWf
Note that the fork is just political grand standing. Look at the issues lol https://github.com/ayojs/ayo/issues
Just like there are bad unit tests, I'm sure there are bad Codes of Conduct, but on the whole it seems like a positive thing to clearly state how things should go in a community.
Of course, the argument can come that there's not going to be much people inside the community asking for a CoC because they're obviously comfortable with how things are running, or they wouldn't keep contributing.
Doesn't seem like an easy call either way.
You may have shot your own foot with that link.
From my understanding, he's concerned about harmful assumptions sometimes made in them and also how the policing of them can be abusive.