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Re:Open-source "codes of conduct" are cancer and need to be ... by bigyabai on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:22PM (#50347631)
Calling benign anti-harassment policies "cancer" is why they exist in the first place.

It makes me wonder what these people think workplace decorum looks like in professional orgs.

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Re:Open-source "codes of conduct" are cancer and need to be ... by crunchatized on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:52PM (#50347843)
That doesn't make any sense. Who is this guy harassing, the inanimate codes of conduct themselves?
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Re:Open-source "codes of conduct" are cancer and need to be ... by bigyabai on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:10PM (#50347962)
If this post was a PR in any Open Source project, it would be closed and ignored in almost 100% of them. Why wouldn't it?

Well-defined governance policies stop businesses and orgs from wasting their valuable time on zero-sum politics like this. If he doesn't agree, he doesn't have to participate.

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Re:Open-source "codes of conduct" are cancer and need to be ... by measurablefunc on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:06PM (#50347930)
He can stop contributing to those projects. Seems like a simple enough solution.
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Re:Open-source "codes of conduct" are cancer and need to be ... by perfectbeeing on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:07PM (#50347938)
Or just roll your eyes when you see one
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