[yosamino]

Reading CoCs they are usually full of language that you would expect people would have already learned in Kindergarden. Unfortunately there are too many grown-ups around that seem to not have internalized these things, so while I don't like the patronizing myself, I see some value in writing down a set of "if you wanna collaborate here, please respect these rules".

And while you are right, the code itself doesn't care, there are lot's of interactions around producing that code that are between humans, where behaviour is important.

It's not much different from the guidelines that exist for this very site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I mean, that is a kind of code of condcut, too.

[foobar33333]

>Unfortunately there are too many grown-ups around that seem to not have internalized these things

This is true, but they wont read the CoC. And even if they do, they won't follow it. If someone can't practice basic decency, a txt file won't change them. Its an entirely futile effort at best and more likely a virtue signal than actually trying to improve things.

The only thing that works is strict moderation. You don't need a CoC for that.

[yosamino]

I agree that a CoC by itself doesn't do anything. But if you want to do strict moderation, you need to put in place some rules that you can use to guide moderation and to make it transparent what the rules ares whch govern this moderation.

Otherwise you end up with arbitrarily enforced rules, created ad-hoc by whoever is doing the enforcing, without a way to know what they are or a way to appeal if you feel wrongly moderated.

[foobar33333]

> a way to appeal if you feel wrongly moderated.

Good. Otherwise people will pretend to be a laywer and talk about how _technically_ the rules don't say specifically what they did. Its a waste of time.

But really, in all my time on github and gitlab I have never seen an actual contributor violate common sense and common decency. The only shitty things I have seen have been anon users piling in on issue threads which have gone viral and in that case you just limit the repo to contributors only.