[hshdhdhj4444]

Code of Conduct cannot stop someone from doing something.

It’s just a document.

However, in this case, the presence of the code of conduct has made it trivially easy to point out the language as wrong in a way whoever wrote this for Zig cannot refute.

It’s working exactly as it should.

[kelnos]

How is it working? The post is still there, referring to people as "losers" and "monkeys". Was the author of the post chastised? Have they edited the post and apologized?

[fulafel]

Seems there was some latency, now the post has been updated and those words are not there anymore.

[KingMob]

Heh. You've rediscovered Critical Race Theory, which was a graduate-level theory about how rules/laws are systematically applied to minorities/the powerless, and not applied to the powerful/project leaders.

Holding the powerful to the law is unfortunately, a separate issue to whether it's worth it to have written rules/laws in the first place.

A CoC could still be better than no CoC, even if it fails to rein in abuse from the top.

[IshKebab]

They don't have to refute it; they have the power to ignore it.

[reactordev]

Which suffice to say is not at all