[kelnos]

I don't think your rebuttal is all that convincing, though. What belief do we have that a CoC would have prevented the behavior you note in that pull request? That sock puppet account was either 1) a random drive-by person who isn't associated with NixOS at all, and is just a hateful troll, or 2) is an actual NixOS community member who created a throwaway account to spew garbage.

How does a a CoC fix either of those problems? I'll answer that myself: it doesn't. Random hateful trolling is going to happen everywhere, and all you can do is stamp it out as quickly as possible by deleting comments and banning accounts.

The second possibility is more insidious: that there's a member of the NixOS community with these hateful views, and has otherwise managed to keep those views to themselves in their interactions with the community. Or they sorta maybe kinda keep it under wraps most of the time, and people sorta maybe kinda know about it, but look the other way for whatever reason. If project leadership knows about something like that and doesn't take action, a CoC isn't going to fix that, either.