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  • From: Verax <verax AT 8chan.co>
  • To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
  • Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Thoughts on Code of Conduct (and lack thereof)
  • Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 16:59:54 -0400

I agree. You can't regulate people's attitudes and behaviour. Additionally, even those codes of conduct have an unnecessary amount of fluff. I can write a better one.

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That should cover pretty much all bases. I'm not saying this is the way forward, just that there are better options if we do want to go this route.

--Verax


vv AT cgs.pw wrote:
I suspect that Gentoo and Arch also have more
than eleven people involved.

Sure, their guidelines may be well written and
even suitable here, but the fact remains that
we're just a small handful of people. If we
can't communicate in a workable manner, then
there is something else wrong that no amount of
rules will ever fix.

~ Ole


On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 15:25:54 -0400
Rouben <rouben AT rouben.net> wrote:

I’d have to agree with Amunak, especially this part:
“There is nothing wrong about having a set of rules or
recommendations [I would say “guidelines”] on how to
write to the mailing list, how to behave and how to be
nice to others, even if it's not actually really
enforced. It still helps give some moral code that should
be common to all members.”

And if some people are worried about bureaucratic fluff,
check out Gentoo’s or Arch’s codes of conduct. Polar
opposite to Ubuntu’s version 2.0 code of conduct, which
is very “fluffy”. Gentoo and Arch keep it down to earth
and practical.

While I appreciate the “wild west/IRC” approach to
things, I also remember how having to GPG sign Ubuntu’s
code of conduct on Launchpad a number of years back made
quite the impression on me, and on a number of occasions
made me reflect on what I was about to do or post.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 14:32 Amunak <amunak AT amunak.net>
wrote:

I would like to point out the irony in your statement
when you say this:

On 2018-08-09 08:47, Verax wrote:

I agree with this sentiment. Codes of conduct have a
deservedly bad reputation as bureaucratic fluff that
caters to people who make a hobby of warping those
things to suit their aims. We do not need one.


...while we currently have an ongoing *vote* to
implement what is, essentially, a code of conduct for
proposals, at least as far as criticizing OpenNIC
members in proposal goes.

There is nothing wrong about having a set of rules or
recommendations on how to write to the mailing list,
how to behave and how to be nice to others, even if
it's not actually really enforced. It still helps give
some moral code that should be common to all members.

What I don't like when is when it becomes official
rules that have to be followed to the letter and when
it makes some people police others (which is what the
current vote is, IMO, doing).


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