> given the revolution in recent years in codes of conduct and DEI, I suspect my odds are better with newer communities, as there are now plenty of "antibodies" out there.
A lot of that stuff can easily just enable a different set of broken stairs though.
Crafting a code of conduct such that it makes it easy to deal with both reactionary -and- wokescold flavoured bullies is something of an art form, and I've seen a number of communities manage to completely fail at one of the two albeit usually in a very well-meaning way.
Antibodies are great up until they give you an auto-immune syndrome, basically.
(I definitely saw the far right kook get defenestrated, though the community may still be sufficiently quokka to've let him sneak back in through a different door, I'm mostly an observer here - and mostly only looking at all because as a veteran code of conduct advocate I tend to find the various failure modes worth examining)
Sure, and I never said otherwise. I'm just saying my personal heuristic is "once bitten twice shy". If you would like to apply a different one in your life, godspeed. But move along with your "poor line of reasoning" accusations. I've just demonstrated how it was not only a reasonable heuristic, it was also proven correct for the very community I was talking about.
An N=1 example of an instance where a line of reasoning produced an accurate answers proves that it -can- produce the right answer, but does not, in fact, tell you anything beyond that about how likely it is to produce the right answer in any given case.
So "I've just demonstrated how it was [...] a reasonable heuristic" is simply unsupported here. If it's working for you, great, maybe you're encountering a different subset of communities than I am, maybe you've been lucky, maybe I'm simply dead wrong, but getting Elm-maintainer-style passive aggressive over somebody pointing out logical flaws in the underlying claim as to why the heuristic is 'proven correct' is a rather unfortunate way to respond to what was written as constructive criticism of said logic.
I see. You'll only listen to me when I've been abused in a statistically significant number of communities. Definitely somebody I'm going to listen to on the topic of where the good communities are.
A lot of that stuff can easily just enable a different set of broken stairs though.
Crafting a code of conduct such that it makes it easy to deal with both reactionary -and- wokescold flavoured bullies is something of an art form, and I've seen a number of communities manage to completely fail at one of the two albeit usually in a very well-meaning way.
Antibodies are great up until they give you an auto-immune syndrome, basically.
(I definitely saw the far right kook get defenestrated, though the community may still be sufficiently quokka to've let him sneak back in through a different door, I'm mostly an observer here - and mostly only looking at all because as a veteran code of conduct advocate I tend to find the various failure modes worth examining)