[oefrha]

Assholes online were not “made popular recently”.

Gotta love seeing a code of conduct:

> We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone

And down in Enforcement (emphasis mine):

> Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at [INSERT CONTACT METHOD]. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

What’s the point of this dance when you can’t bother to fill out the contact.

[recursive]

I had to add a COC in order to qualify for open source hosting tier on netlify.

[worthless-trash]

Because the code of conduct is ONLY ever intended to be used as a sword, not as a shield.

[jchw]

Honestly, how many projects with "Code of Conducts" actually use or follow them? Maybe if you're a big CNCF project or something like that, but the average GitHub project just adds one because GitHub told them to. If they were actually more about enforcing community standards and not about social signaling they'd probably just be called "contributing rules" or something boring and nondescript like how Internet rules always have been.

In other words, the point of this dance is to check a box. I mean literally, GitHub will check a box in Insights -> Community Standards when you add one.

[mrln]

Probably because it is AI slop and no one ever read that...