Instituting the CoC is a power play. It allows you to increase your power and influence by pushing the boundaries of what counts as harrasment much further than it would otherwise be understood, for very simple reason — for most people, fighting against CoC is not the hill they want to die on, as nobody wants to be seen as defender of abuse and harrasment.
It is similar to child pornography legislation — you can go to jail for hand drawn pictures of specialized children, which is pretty stupid if you think about it, but most people don’t care: they aren’t pedophiles and so they aren’t interested in sexualized content featuring children, and the personal gain of feeling good about defending individual freedom and liberty is not worth the status loss from, you know, defending actual pedophiles.
With CoC it is similar — you are expanding your sphere of power and influence, and everyone opposed is just dirty defender of abuse and harrasment, and so basically a harraser herself, and thus we need to eject her for the good of the community.
The BSD rules are a softer version of that starker example. I am truly perplexed by the resistance to it. It has huge benefits for a marginalized group and marginal inconvenience for those already in power, already privy to all of the benefits.
Hey FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) developers have you patched spectre and meltdown already? Have you fixed your communication issues with security researchers who stopped notifying you of serious bugs? No? Oh I would hug you to cheer you up, but it's now allowed now.
You realize people and projects can work on multiple things at once right?
> Hey FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) developers have you patched spectre and meltdown already?
The FreeBSD and OpenBSD developers were notified 6 months late and you expect them to magically have a patch ready.
> Have you fixed your communication issues with security researchers who stopped notifying you of serious bugs?
FreeBSD did nothing wrong to security researchers so there isn't anything to fix.
> Oh I would hug you to cheer you up, but it's now allowed now.
You sound like a wonderful person, not! Seriously the COC is to keep toxic people like you away.
Then they did it right, I am most probably not going to donate to FreeBSD foundation first time in 5 years.
You must not care much about FreeBSD if a code of conduct saying don't be a asshole is what drove you to stop donating.
Also I'm skeptical you ever donated, you were spreading misinformation in you previous post about FreeBSD and now your mad they wrote a CoC that say things like don't threaten violence or stalk people.
That's a disingenuous summarization, you're dropping all of the important details to arrive at a platitude. It's akin to claiming "govern well" is an accurate summarization of the Republican party platform.
Some of us just want to keep politics out of tech.
We are probably the weirdos I guess.
This CoC can be summarized as "don't be a jerk to other people". I can't even fathom how that's a controversial or political statement, but yet, here we are.
Your summary is as disingenuous as someone summarizing the Republican party's platform as "run the US government well." It drops all of the important details to arrive at a meaningless platitude. I'm pretty sure you can fathom the controversy, but you're just being deliberately obtuse.
That is true if in your world saying or writing the following is being a jerk:
- hug, <3
- smoking is bad for you, you should eat healthier food, I think that food is disgusting
- men have higher testosterone levels
All of these violate their CoC.
If all they wanted is a CoC that says "don't be a jerk" then they would have put that into their CoC and not what's in it currently, like many other projects had done so[1].
> I can't even fathom how that's a controversial or political statement, but yet, here we are.
It's political because it's being pushed by political activist groups and it's controversial because not everyone agrees that writing hug should get you banned from a technical community.
Then why did they explicitly put that into their CoC?
> Grow up and realize that context is important.
I think I'm going to stop here, because I don't like arguing with people who use condescending language to hide the fact that they don't have an argument.
It is obvious that no matter what specific part of the CoC I will point out, you will defend it by poisoning the well, no matter how wrong it is.