on 11/9/07 2:39 AM, The Cunctator at
cunctator(a)gmail.com wrote:
This is sad and pathetic. And I mean
"pathetic" in the sense of
"arousing sadness and compassion".
A code of conduct tells people "We don't trust new people, and we have
problems with each other, and we don't know how to build a community."
Cunc, a code of conduct is a set of guidelines - like road signs - they help
people to go in the right direction. The Community that was built was going
in the wrong direction; we're trying to correct that. Keep the faith.
I think
there is more to this than Cunc's curmudgeonly reputation.
The danger is that we do have people who will treat the proposed Code of
Conduct as a hammer for beating newbies. A code put in those terms
would be as meaningful as shrinkwrapped software that tells me that I
can't transfer the information to Cuba.
I support the idea of a series of principles that we all hold dear, but
not any kind of bureaucratic structure to support them.