Comment by pdimitar
7 years ago
> What I can tell you is that virtue signaling is vastly more common than people actually doing the right thing
You absolutely nailed it right here IMO.
Codes of conduct nowadays I feel are hijacked and reshaped into the vendetta persecutions you described.
Could Linus be nicer? Everybody keeps talking about that. I almost never see anyone assume that he tried being nicer but the only way he could get through to people was to draw their attention with being rude.
From what I gather, Linus is sincere and making a good faith effort. I think that's a better signal than writing a Code of Conduct. CoCs strike me as virtue signaling more often than not.
Hopefully, Linus will figure out a better path forward and start setting a better example. If he does that, I think that will make more of a difference than a CoC.