Hi Maldun, On 2014-11-28, maldun <dom...@gmx.net> wrote: > So far as I understand, this code/guidline/whatever does not serve as a > law, or is written in stone, > nor does it say: "If you don't behave as stated in the code, you will be > teared feathered and be banned forever!"
It is the experience of some people participating in the discussion that there is a difference between the official intention of a set of rules, and the spirit in which the rules will eventually be used in reality. Dima has provided a link to some communist code of conduct. Its rules seem mainly harmless, but since social rules are never objective, it is always possible to use them against unwanted people. And to give you an example that is smaller than Soviet Union: I have seen teachers claiming that the rules they set up just serve to the good of the class (in the current discussion, the word "safety nest" was used), but all what they did was creating a snake pit (and I'd say: deliberately). In one case, four pupils out of a class of 20 pupils left the school within one year. From two of them I know that they left since the teacher's rules could too easily be instrumented by bullies. > I don't think it's that big deal, it's like hanging up some nice slogans on > your wall like 'Be nice to others.' That's totally opposite to my experience. I respect that the majority of people here wants some kind of code of conduct/guideline/etiquette. But I also know that it can be used as a weapon to nuke a society. So, haste in creating the thing can be fatal. Cheers, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
