I understand the concern, however, if you look at how attacks happen > it is frequently through other sites. Specifically under/poorly > moderated sites. For specific examples, people who have issues with > people on Quora will frequently go after them on Facebook and Twitter. > > these aren't a solution looking for a problem. If we just want to look > at the clusterfuck that is happening in the reddis community right now > we can see conversations spilling onto twitter and into ad hominem > vitriol. >
You haven't established that this is both 1) the PG mailing list's problem and that 2) this can't and won't be used to retaliate against those holding unpopular viewpoints but aren't specifically harassing anyone. Now, you may say that (2) would be rejected by the committee, but I would counter that it's still a stain on me and something that will forever appear along side my name in search results and that the amount of time and stress it'd take me to defend myself would make my voluntarily leaving the community, which would be seen as an admission of guilt, my only option. People are shitheads. People are assholes. We're not agreeing to join some organization and sign an ethics clause when signing up for the mailing list. The current moderators can already remove bad actors from the list. How they act outside of the list is non of this list's concern. Conferences are free to hold their own CoC because you explicitly agree to it when you purchase a ticket, and it's governing interactions at the conference (or should only be governing actions at the conference.) Jim