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Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by hshdhdhj4444 on Thursday November 27, 2025 @12:55AM (#46066147)
Code of Conduct cannot stop someone from doing something.

It’s just a document.

However, in this case, the presence of the code of conduct has made it trivially easy to point out the language as wrong in a way whoever wrote this for Zig cannot refute.

It’s working exactly as it should.

Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by kelnos on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:24AM (#46066651)
How is it working? The post is still there, referring to people as "losers" and "monkeys". Was the author of the post chastised? Have they edited the post and apologized?
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by KingMob on Thursday November 27, 2025 @03:08AM (#46066937)
Heh. You've rediscovered Critical Race Theory, which was a graduate-level theory about how rules/laws are systematically applied to minorities/the powerless, and not applied to the powerful/project leaders.

Holding the powerful to the law is unfortunately, a separate issue to whether it's worth it to have written rules/laws in the first place.

A CoC could still be better than no CoC, even if it fails to rein in abuse from the top.

Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by fulafel on Sunday November 30, 2025 @11:49PM (#46103582)
Seems there was some latency, now the post has been updated and those words are not there anymore.
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by reactordev on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:54AM (#46066848)
Which suffice to say is not at all
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by IshKebab on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:52AM (#46066840)
They don't have to refute it; they have the power to ignore it.