#coc
I've stumbled upon this minimalist code of conduct last week:
We are Human.
To be Human is to be limited.
In our limitation, we make choices that are unwise or are flawed.If we make unwise choices because of our limitation,
we cannot judge others for the same reason.So, we cannot judge,
thus we forgive.This project and its results are intended as:
a place of learning,
a place of understanding,
a place of teaching,
a place of sharing,
a place of creators creating the tools for other creators to create complicated things elegantly.Be well, Creator. Be well and create.
If I had to write a sort of anti-CoC CoC I'd word it differently and use slightly different logic but it would still be in this general direction. I also like the author's justification:
This mainly started as a reaction to seeing so many other projects adopt codes of conduct that enables busybodies to override decision-making processes in open source communities. I am not comfortable with more access to patterns of numbers being used as a means of leverage by people who otherwise have no stake in the project. If this adds any factor to my argument, I personally am transgender. I normally don't mention it because for the 99% of real-world cases it is not relevant. It is mostly relevant when dealing with my doctor.
It's always nice to see people express something very obvious when the masses do their usual thing and go insane about something. Accidentally, on the same day I read a post titled The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis (an NSFW title image). Yes, there are people who unironically like Javascript these days, but its most active supporters are of the yes-it's-bad-but type. I really hate this logic. 'Yes, it's bad but...' No, It's bad. Fix it. Simple things should stay simple.
#opensource #codeofconduct #coc #sjw #feminism #javascript #minimalism #KISS