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> The only effect of a Code of Conduct I have ever personally witnessed was that people were being bullied for greeting others.

They probably means you should name the opensource project that "bullied (people) for greeting others".

You said you personally witnessed something; I'd like to understand more about it.

In particular: did you witness the instigating incident, the bullying, or both? Did the bullying actually weaponize a CoC, or is it your impression that the presence of a CoC empowered the bully? Is "bullying" your characterization or someone else's? And so on.

I witnessed everything, the bullies used the CoC to justify their behavior and told me their committee encouraged their enforcement of the CoC in this way. People on the committee have published articles on the matter calling for such enforcement. Bullying is well defined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying, I specifically mean it in the sense of repeated abusive behavior by people with more power.

What project?