Five Rosaries and seventeen TPS reports filed in triplicate.
A nursery rhyme. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”
Toxic people do hurt communities though, especially volunteer communities. If you let people be their worst selves, you'll lose a bunch of people who don't want to deal with that.
I wouldn't think that'd be a hard sell here, you've seen the HN guidelines, right? Those and the moderation in practice are a lot of why anyone is here.
I prefer people stay civil but CoC is not a smoking gun. CoC easily turns into another form of toxic. I've seen it happen on a few projects, NixOs is a great example of CoC Stasi going crazy.
Linux seems to have f bomb drama every few years. I disagree about the CoC thing though any place that treats "our Community Guidelines" like it's the Constitution are weird. Not everyone likes to report. After X revisions and N years it excludes the people who didn't want to (or couldn't) report.
Doesn't appear to be what's happening here though, or in Linux in general.
Did you read the discussion on the mailing list in question? I advise reading it so you may properly form your own opinion instead of assuming based on headline