Hacker News Reader

Comment by smacktoward | Hacker News Reader

> Email that person, and try to work it out. Email the owners of the community, and alert them. Whatever you do, do not make a scene, as that will burden the entire community with your issue.

Wow. I mean, I was expecting “we don’t care that you’re being abused” to be the subtext here, but they just came out and said it.

View on HN

I'd suggest that you try those suggestions (direct contact, then escalate privately) before rejecting them.

Basically any project that uses this as it’s CoC of any size will quickly be overrun by bullies.

People who cares very deeply about CoCs are usually bullies.

I have seen this as well. It's as if they're trying to determine the boundaries of (un)acceptable behavior, and once clearly define begin to put the community to the test and a never ending CoC revision sessions in order to bring in (never remove) new behaviors considered harmful. That and also keeping the CoC committee members relevant.

Citation needed

When has this happened?

This isn't the same, and your bad-faith interpretation is exactly the kind of issue with traditional CoCs.

"making a scene" isn't the same as any and all complains, nor does the wording imply any kind of complains is "making a scene". But there are plenty of example where people purposefully make a complaint as public as possible to shame the accused before any formal complaint is made in order to influence the outcome - it's the community equivalent of "trial by media".

Reply on news.ycombinator.com