Re: Code of Conduct?

[Søren Hauberg]

On Dec 15, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> I think a lot of people are sharing your concern, including me. A code of 
> conduct is nice, but as Torsten mentioned it, would it really prevent the 
> issue? What's unbelievable is that you need to remind those rules to people 
> who are supposed to be adults. IMO, what would be more effective is a 
> moderator and banning those who do respect the rules (with a few preliminary 
> warnings). Yes, this sounds harsh, but the octave mailing lists are not a 
> place for what happened these last few weeks.

I agree that having a code of conduct without having consequences for violators 
would be pointless. I don't think having a single moderator would be practical, 
though. I think some sort of community based system would be more realistic; 
I'm unsure about the details of such a system.

Søren