vagueness in CoC

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vagueness in CoC

[emmairwin]

Thanks for your thoughtful feedback @kcpeppe .

I completely understand, and have experienced the challenges, of cross-cultural collaboration, and how appropriateness of one word, or phrase may vary depending on culture and fluency of the prodominant language.

That said, the opportunity that a code of conduct gives is to teach, and empower inclusive behaviors. Using your example, if I use a phrase or word in French ( a language that I am poor at) , that in the language of another non-native French speaker is threatening or discrimintatory, I would want to know and improve so that I did not have this impact on someone again. It might be upsetting to learn that I had that impact on someone, but better for everyone to have that awareness. By having no set of guidelines for participation, its more likely those who are most underrerepsented and margenlized silently leave. There is a long history in open source of that very thing happening (diverse people leave).

In the two examples you ask about:

Disruptive behaviour
Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

I have found these useful in describing the larger impact of actions that disrupt or harm healthy community collaborations. Again the CoC is as much about generating healthy discussion and awareness as issuing consequence, and I think that lens may be helpful. I wish people talked about this positive aspect more often.

[emmairwin]

Please feel free to re-open this, if my answer didn't answer your question. Thanks very much!