I found your perspective quite insightful, so thank you for taking the time to respond.<p>I believe the author represents a very valid sense of alienation and dismissal many people feel when a code of conduct appears on a project they may have worked on for years.<p>While I cannot speak for the author, I have had several conversations with people who hold views similar to that of the author in the past week thanks to current events. People are afraid. They see the Contributor Covenant and other codes of conduct and view them as at best a cudgel for exclusion and at worst a power grab by political groups they feel unwelcome with.<p>I&#x27;ll be honest, when I first read this article I pretty much pumped my fist in the air, this is like a call to arms against those awful codes of conduct. So I may be so blind to the issues of the people who call for codes of conduct that it is in the &#x27;unknown unknowns&#x27; for me. I just don&#x27;t know about them.