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No one needed a code of conduct to police and enforce rules in a community. They didn't exist until 15 minutes ago and communities were fine without them.

>That is why all grown-up open source projects have one.

All ones that bandwagoned and let leftist entryists take over you mean. Grown-ups don't need a CoC to stop trolls with anime character profile pics from using the platform to defend pedophiles. They simply get a ban and life moves on. You can have rules without a code of conduct.



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