Stack Overflow's New Code of Conduct
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The biggest cultural break I've noticed between Gen X/Early Millennial techies and this modern cohort is the latter's obsession with bureaucratizing and proceduralizing everything. Whereas the former was openly hostile to those things and in many cases entered the field to seek refuge from them.
A techie speaking like an HR drone is anathema (or at least should be).
or maybe they were already as bad as what we have now and were playing nice to get their foot in the door.
No older techies would have done something like what the sqlite devs did: adopt the Rule of St. Benedict as their Code of Conduct, and a week later cave to pressure and adopt a "normal" one because the matter "was distracting us from our work".