[Development] QUIP 12: Code of Conduct

[André Pönitz]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 08:34:40AM +0000, Martin Smith wrote:
> And because we are online and spread all around the world, there is
> currently no way for us to stop and prevent abusive behavior.

That would be a valid reason in case there had been or we would
expect to be unstoppable abusive behaviour.

Most abusive behaviour on the mailing lists and IRC can be
stopped by technical means, in exceptional cases like the recent
spam attack on FreeNode also a coc won't help.

> We need a formal procedure to enable that, and the CoC is that
> procedure.

This "we" needs qualification. It apparently does not include me.

Andre'