René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"No code of conduct entry on use of words","articleBody":"An issue that keeps coming up on IRC is that a lot of words are hurtful to some people. This has occasionally devolved into unpleasant arguments where people don't understand whether some words are OK or not. This does not appear to have good code of conduct coverage.\n\nI'm very happy to write the CoC entry if we can find consensus around something that's a good idea. This issue is more a place for discussion that because I want someone else to do something about it.\n\nSpecific objectives:\n- A form that is not easy to abuse. e.g. someone saying \"the use of the word 'and' is upsetting to my people. I wish you to refrain from it\" is probably more likely to be abusing the system than genuinely hurt by it\n- It should be designed to defuse the situation rather than causing people to have to defend themselves over it\n- It should not be a fully general thing where all language requests are required to be respected but should acknowledge that there is a power imbalance and the main goal is to not reinforce that\n\nMy current thoughts along the subject are something like \"Please avoid using words that are used as insults for marginalised groups, even if you don't mean it that way. If people ask you to stop using a word on these grounds, respect that. Ask for an explanation if you must, but accept that people might not want to give one, and don't argue about whether they're right\". This is too long and a bit too jargony, but I think it roughly captures the right intent. If people agree and think that it would be useful to have as an entry in the CoC I will attempt to edit it down into something pithier.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/DRMacIver","@type":"Person","name":"DRMacIver"},"datePublished":"2013-10-13T12:07:08.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/158/computer/issues/158"}