Robert Fernandez wikigamaliel@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I'm much more grateful for the people who did not spend their energy on this code of conduct to "accidentally" exercise power over others
If the organizers of this proposal responded in kind with even a fraction of the bad faith accusations that have been leveled at them, the howls of outrage would be deafening.
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Eh, they do and that is one of the reasons to oppose the Code of Conduct. Its draft implicitly alleges that the technical spaces currently are a cesspit that is in urgent need of someone with a rake while protecting actual offend- ers by granting immunity to "neuroatypical" behaviour.
It also turns the technical spaces from a place that served to advance Wikimedia's mission into an aimless "community".
Tim