On Tue, 30 May 2023 13:27:02 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Now I am indeed not too fond of the LGBT community purely in terms of their sexual orientation either, yes. I have been on the receiving end of unwanted sexual advances by homosexuals who absolutely would not take 'no' for an answer in my life. On two occasions I had to use violence to ward them off. But as I understand it, the Code of Conduct is, amongst other purposes, intended to prevent things like this from happening to anyonen on openSUSE premises / events etc.
Generally, a CoC doesn't prevent people from doing things, but it provides the organization an means of protecting itself and its membership when those things happen - by giving them a means to say "you broke these rules and are no longer welcome here". Look at organizations like SFWA or DefCon for examples of places where this has happened (just two off the top of my head that I know of). In the SFWA instance, some very well-known and (for some previously-) well- regarded authors acted very, very badly and were told they weren't welcome to return in the future - the CoC that was adopted for those organizations helped with enforcing those decisions. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits