On Monday, July 21, 2025 7:41:10 AM Mountain Standard Time Wouter Verhelst wrote: > One thing I learned while drafting the original code of conduct is that > it's always OK, and sometimes sometimes beneficial, to be vague. > > If you make up rules of human behavior, there will always be a bit of a > gray zone where it is not clear whether something is allowed, according > to the rules, or not. You can never hope to eliminate that gray zone > completely; you can only make it asymptotically smaller. However, every > time you try to do so, there are two things that will happen: > - Your text gets larger and larger, until it gets unwieldy > - The chance increases of the rules outlawing something that should not > be outlawed, or not outlawing something that should be. > > Because of this, I think it is a better idea to have a definition that > uses terms that are generally understood while still having some leeway > in it. I second this. I think a principle-based code of acceptable content is much better than an enumerated-list-of-all-possibilities (which you will never really arrive at anyway) based code of acceptable content. -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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