Stack Overflow's New Code of Conduct
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Funnily enough the only people that need a CoC on a Site like Stackoverflow are the people that are not worth keeping because they don't contribute enough to outweigh the disruptions they introduce.
Yah, I've seen the Coraline (or whatever his fake-name was)-Story.
What an utter mess and because 'be nice to each other' sounds so unsuspicious they get to take power they neither deserve nor have the will wield responsibly.
But it is a helpful red flag. If there's a CoC the project is subverted and to be avoided, lest you help people that hate you and/or you'll be destroyed.
When I see a "cock" in a project I'm weighing for my company's use, that decision is a huge negative. If I find two projects with equivalent goals and one is run by assholes, I'll contribute to the other. I also enjoy passive-aggressively forking just to remove the documentation on the "penis" a political activist added, and do nothing else. If they look at their downstream graph and see my commit "extraneous documentation removed" and wonder what I did, my job is complete.