On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:32:01AM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote:
On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 01:52:38AM -0700, Tikhon Jelvis wrote:
Personally, I would not be against a *short and simple* code of conduct that specifically addresses issues we have seen. I'm imagining clear guidelines that help people express themselves in a thoughtful and polite way. Something in the style of the Hacker News commenting guidelines[1] (at least the first four; the rest are specific to HN/Reddit-like sites).
You might be interested in Ruby's COC [1] too. They had a discussion some time ago and Matz&co requirements were "short and to the point". Indeed it's very clear to read.
+1 to having an explicit code of conduct. All communities have such a code; some are merely unwritten and harder to scrutinize. For a slightly longer example that is still rather clear, Snowdrift.coop has its code here: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/community/conduct. It can be summarized as, "Act with honor and good will, assume good faith, and do not use hostile language." It's very similar to Ruby's code, with Ruby's first item captured in "act with honor and good will", and Ruby's second and forth items captured in "do not use hostile language". I like that they both include the assumption of good faith.