This whole weird story got me thinking about Stacker News and whether it even has a code of conduct. I couldn’t find one on GitHub, but maybe I just fumbled it. Honestly, I’m not even sure it needs one. Like, I didn’t see anything for Bitcoin’s repo either. Personally, I don’t think a whole project should catch heat just because of one dev’s behavior (personal life), let’s not mix apples and oranges. What do y’all think about a code of conduct for Stacker News, hypothetically?
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sats are our code of conduct
Maybe I didn’t explain myself properly, I had already thought about this when I saw @Undisciplined’s reply. But now I’m sure. What made me bring this up was this case. Yeah, sats are kind of the code of conduct between stackers, but I was actually talking more about the GitHub repo’s code of conduct.
Fair, I suspected that you were talking about Github, but -- speaking as someone who doesn't contribute code or engage there -- it would be cool if sats were the code on github as well.
you just gave me a maybe dumb idea, what if there was a bot that brought GitHub convos over to SN, in a territory just for that? Then Stackers could zap stuff and drop comments on the proposals. cc/ @k00b
Our plan to eventually host github-like issues directly on SN
Also, once we have E2EE dms, move our company chat from Matrix directly to SN
Boom
Yep
I think it’s an ongoing and informal community enforced thing.
We can reflect on what kinds of conduct seem to be rewarded and which tend to be punished.
It’s like interpreting an unwritten constitution based on precedent.
The rules are revealed when you violate one.
Like raising pets?
Yep
When I was younger, I found this idea so repellent but now I think it’s probably the way things have to work.
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For Stacker News the question is really about what the maintainers want to optimize for. If the goal is to keep the focus on product and code then adding extra governance layers might not add much except more debate over the rules. On the other hand if the project grows and starts to attract more contributors from vastly different backgrounds then a baseline written agreement could help reduce misunderstandings.