Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC
Almost more surprising is that this was removed:<p>&gt; When interpreting the words and actions of others, participants should always assume good intentions.<p>In favor of this:<p>&gt; Participants should speak and act with good intentions, but understand that intent and impact are not equivalent.<p>Also changed yesterday:<p>&gt; Behaviour which can be <i>reasonably</i> considered harassment will not be tolerated.<p>became:<p>&gt; Behaviour which can be considered harassment <i>against protected classes</i> will not be tolerated.<p>The updated CoC is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;www.ruby-lang.org&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;en&#x2F;conduct&#x2F;index.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ruby&#x2F;www.ruby-lang.org&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;en&#x2F;con...</a><p>This is very weird because fundamentally it stems from a failure of the moderators. If someone makes a sexist joke you don&#x27;t just let them because you&#x27;re &quot;assuming good intentions&quot;, that clause means that you tell them it&#x27;s not appropriate here, and if they apologize you assume they are sincere, and if they don&#x27;t you swiftly boot them. But there is no substitute for good moderation, shifting words around won&#x27;t help much.<p>Aside: Open source discussion opening with &quot;My rationale for these changes are documented on Twitter: [link]&quot; also seems somewhat crazy. And I love Twitter, it just seems very odd to link to a thread of tweets instead of restating your case in the proper medium.