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Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

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Re: Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

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I'm going to get downvoted for this, but: I'm against code of conducts because they're worse than the problems they try to solve.

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In my opinion, code of conducts become a distraction and a cause for worry to anyone contributing to these projects because someone inevitably gets their feelings hurt and points to some well-intentioned rule in the CoC to get the 'offender' shamed/removed even if no harm was intended.

Re: Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

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Well, who was responsible for this exactly? Given the circumstances, they should do better than an amorphous "we".

The letter was signed by the The NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Enforcement Committee. The members of that committee are listed on their code of conduct site. Seems pretty transparent to me.

https://numfocus.org/code-of-conduct#persons-responsible

Re: Public Apology to Jeremy Howard

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post #3

I'm going to get downvoted for this, but: I'm against code of conducts because they're worse than the problems they try to solve. edit: In my opinion, code of conducts become a distraction and a cause for worry to anyone contributing to these projects because someone inevitably gets their feelings hurt and points to some well-intentioned rule in the CoC to get the 'offender' shamed/removed even if no harm was intende…

I'm probably going to go down with you; but can you elaborate on that a little?
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