That somehow seems worse. It took community pressure from the speakers to get O'Reilly to have some sort of a policy against harassment/stalking/offensive behavior?
That's the problem with putting these things in writing -- the more rules you write down, the stronger the impression that whatever's not on the list isn't against the rules.
> one could argue this opens the door for other bad
> behavior at OSCon
It's already been happening though. It's not like leaving it out of writing preventing incidents from happening.