I don&#x27;t like to comment on these types of threads on HN, but the same names pop up in the same type of comments, bugs, or whatever various flavor of the day for whatever software someone notices today.<p>I don&#x27;t think everyone who submits a bug needs to be a significant contributor to a project, but when someone says they want to create a set of rules (that later in the thread &quot;should be treated as law&quot;) to regulate something that seems to be working, and that person is not a contributing member of the community, something is wrong.<p>I don&#x27;t know what overall benefit we would have if every software project had a CoC(which seems to be their goal), it&#x27;s like asking all of us to bundle one with your birth certificate.