&quot;You&#x27;re alleging that a CoC is meaningless, but why implement a CoC, as a community, if you don&#x27;t actually want more women and people of color becoming involved in your projects? The CoC is the signal saying, &quot;We, as a community, want you to feel welcome here.&quot;&quot;<p>See the part where i directly answer this:
&quot;If a COC becomes a baseline requirement for people to run projects and attract contributors,&quot;<p>IE if people stop going to projects without COC&#x27;s, people will add COC&#x27;s.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why you think anything else will happen.<p>&quot;So, to repeat, a CoC is a signal of desire to be inclusive.&quot;<p>It is <i>this second</i>.  As I said, if it becomes a thing people look for, it will no longer be that, because everyone will just add them and ignore them.  It will no longer be a signal for what you are looking for. It will achieve precisely nothing.<p>Again, I&#x27;m honestly befuddled why you think anything else would happen<p>Do you really think normal people trying to start projects are going to say &quot;well, i really want to attract contributors of all kinds, and it seems i have to have a COC, that i don&#x27;t care about, to do that, but i guess it would just be wrong to have a COC if i don&#x27;t care?&quot;<p>Or do you think they are just going to say &quot;well, i really want to attract contributors of all kinds, i better add a COC that i don&#x27;t really care about&quot;.<p>I mean, this is <i>already happening</i>. How many projects are like our OP, and basically go and say &quot;well, i should probably add a COC, but i don&#x27;t really care&quot;.<p>You need look no further than things like yellow&#x2F;pink ribbons&#x2F;flag pins senators wear&#x2F;etc to see what will happen.  These things were once signals of people who cared. Now they are just social norms.