Please don’t cut my balls off or “On the creation of useful coding standards”
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But my recommendation isn’t for management edicts, but for team consensus. Obviously people who join the team later will have to adapt to the teams choices in standards, but they are likely more beneficial and useful when they came from team-mates.
After that no one holds them to anything, in fact I've seen situations where new team members try to organize consensus and the rest of the team hits their seat's eject button and that person finds themselves team-less.
This is an interesting subject though!