@anban @TotalElipse @matkeith @raphael @Corb_The_Lesser @popey @thelinuxEXP I stand for groups' self-determination. if they wish to adopt formal rules, that's up to them.

but several things about CoCs get to me:

• they seem to attract authoritarians to enforcement positions
  
  
• they seem to be applied unevenly
  
  
• uneven application suggests the words don't really mean what's written, so there's another set of mysterious unwritten rules that brings us back to the problem that CoCs were purported as solving
  
  
• interpretations of words vary according to backgrounds, which further aggravate the problem
  
  
• this is particularly difficult to navigate for some neurodivergent minds
  
  
• to the point that such rules result in anxiety and exclusion of this neurodivergent population
  
  
• which is ironic considering that CoCs are purported as being for inclusion and diversity