<div dir="ltr">i’m sure they weren’t. neither by those who wrote the contributor covenant, nor by those who committed it here.<div><br></div><div>i see the problems you mentioned, and one more: the CC doesn’t prevent bullying, it just forces bullies to act differently. instead of using hurtful language, they just have to come up with believable accusations against the victim, and the CC will require to treat those alleged perpetrators with extreme prejudice. if anything, this makes bullying more effective: assholes using hurtful language can be called out. assholes who throw around baseless accusations usually can’t, and the CC asks others to support accusers.</div><div><br></div><div>as long as people are sensible and not sticklers to the rules, this is no issue. but in that case, not using any CC or just laying down some basic rules will be enough as well.</div><div><br></div><div>best, philipp</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">mdn <<a href="mailto:bernardlprf@openmailbox.org">bernardlprf@openmailbox.org</a>> schrieb am So., 9. Apr. 2017 um 01:19 Uhr:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Le 09/04/2017 00:01, Albert Astals Cid a écrit :<br>
> El dissabte, 8 d’abril de 2017, a les 21:54:07 CEST, mdn va escriure:<br>
>> Hello,<br>
>> Today I have been informed that the CoC named the "Contributor<br>
>> convenant" has been added to the <a href="http://freedesktop.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">freedesktop.org</a> wiki.<br>
>> <a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct/</a><br>
><br>
> As a freedesktop project maintainer i find this very sad.<br>
><br>
> I don't disagree with having a Code of Conduct, but creating one and forcing<br>
> it without any kind of input from the community is totally *bad* conduct.<br>
You can never make people do anything.<br>
--Marshall B. Rosenberg<br>
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Surely no bad intentions were in mind.<br>
><br>
> Albert<br>
><br>
> P.S: If this was discussed somewhere please point me where, it may just be<br>
> that i'm a bad maintainer and i'm not subscribed to the proper places.<br>
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