[Battlemesh] Code of conduct

[ryan at iheartryan.com]

The nice thing about using one of the pre-written codes of conduct is that 
we get to benefit from the experiences of other communities and the work 
that other people have done to make sure that their communities are safe 
and free from sexual harassment.

These benefits should seem familiar to people who are used to open-source 
software.

The purpose of these codes of conduct is to say "if someone is being a 
knobhead, talk to X" and then expand on the definition of "knobhead".  And 
other communities have spent time tuning the definition of "knobhead" 
until everybody can be satisfied with it.

I recommend we use the pre-written one, so that we don't end up 
reinventing the wheel and spending a lot of time debating a good 
definition of "knobhead" that will end up having a lot of bugs in it.

--Ryan

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Nemesis wrote:

> On 07/30/2015 02:29 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > It can probably be as simple as:
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> > Don't be a knobhead.
> > If you think someone is being a knobhead, talk to X.
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> This sounds good... a healthy does of "common sense".
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> I also think the WBM is small enough that something like this works.
> The more rules we create the more complicated it will get.
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> Premise: the code of conduct should be more about what you should not do, not what you should
> do, in my opinion.
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> This proposal sounds reasonable.
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> I would just propose to expand a little bit what it means to be a "knobhead" for two reasons:
>  1. it should be clear also to non native or non proficient english speakers
>  2. being too vague would allow somebody to argue about the meaning of "knobhead" potentially
>     making the anti-harassment effort completely useless
>  3. it could also trigger the opposite situation in which somebody might play the victim
>     accusing someone he doesn't like to be behaving like a "knobhead"
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> I think the definition should be simple and short, not stuffing too many things. Just the
> ones we consider very important and very dangerous of the health and credibility of the
> community.
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> We are a small community, but it has been growing, and I personally hope it will grow even
> more - I remind you that we already had mail threads talking about a potential edition in the
> American continent.
> Better to start doing small steps in the right direction.
> We don't need laws, we need a clear procedure to protect ourselves in case someone starts
> jeopardizing years of work spent building this community.
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> It takes years or decades to build these kind of communities, but it takes just a bunch of
> jerks with a lot of free time to destroy them.
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> Federico
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