James Keener <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I also think that a CoC focuses on the wrong things. If someone is disruptive, they need to be told to leave, just like in every forum ever. That's pretty much what the CoC *is*: it's just trying to set out an agreed-on framework for exercising the power to ban somebody. Up to now, if someone was being disruptive enough that that would be a reasonable thing to do, the decision would be taken by the core team, according to no defined principles and with no mechanism for appeal --- nor any guards against core abusing its power. AFAIR, core has never actually done any such thing, and I'd like to think that the CoC committee will never need to ban anybody either. But if it does come to that, we'll have a much better governance mechanism in place for it. regards, tom lane
