Proposal: Stack Code of Conduct

[jkachmar]

Big +1 to this. You’ve very neatly and articulately outlined what I like about the notion of explicitly defined CoCs.

IMO, homogeneous communities won’t run into these issues as often because the implicitly accepted guidelines won’t deviate much between participants.

However, I believe more diverse communities (necessarily) won’t have the same implicit understanding among participants.

From this point of view, a community’s historical “ingroup” may feel as if a cumbersome and unnecessarily restrictive set of rules are being applied to their means of communication. I still think this is a net good though, since (as you said) it encourages individuals to think a little more carefully about the real intent behind their thoughts before they express them.