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by toast0 3040 days ago
Ignoring the text of the rules, which are mostly an elaboration on "don't be an asshole", there is also a very important piece -- that there is a reporting and response procedure. In many groups, where there hasn't been a need for this function, when the need arises, nobody knows what to do, and the issue tends to get rapidly worse while people figure out how to handle it.