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by flukus 3025 days ago
> Your post is so right I don’t understand how it’s not self evident. How could anyone be against the very concept of setting or codifying expectations?

The first is that they are often overly broad and police what people can say in entirely different contexts, the second is that they become weaponised so that people can only contribute if their entire political position doesn't offend somebody.

Neither are usually intended consequences, but the people putting CoC's in place don't tend to realize they are potential consequences at all.