What counts as foul language has changed a great deal in the last two decades. You could always tie it to what is printable in the New York Times, but that too is changing. I could live with something like
“Be considerate, and if you can’t be nice, be at least civil”.
From: Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, September 15, 2018 at 11:12 AM
To: Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Travers <chris.travers@xxxxxxxxx>, James Keener <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Litt <slitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Code of Conduct plan
How about we just simplify the code of conduct to the following:
Any member in the various PostgreSQL lists is expected to maintain
respect to others and not use foul language. A variation from
the previous sentence shall be considered a violation of the CoC.
Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> There is a risk that if we adopt a CoC, and nothing happens, and the
> committee does nothing, that they will feel like a failure, and get
> involved when it was best they did nothing. I think the CoC tries to
> address that, but nothing is perfect.
Yeah, a busybody CoC committee could do more harm than good.
The way the CoC tries to address that is that the committee can't
initiate action of its own accord: somebody has to bring it a complaint.
Of course, a member of the committee could go out and find a "problem"
and then file a complaint --- but then they'd have to recuse themselves
from dealing with that complaint, so there's an incentive not to.
regards, tom lane
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Melvin Davidson
Maj. Database & Exploration Specialist
Universe Exploration Command – UXC
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