> but you'd have to follow the "safe, sane and consensual" rules.
Those rules are entirely arbitrary and were made up as part of this new Code of Conduct bullshit. They didn't used to exist and plenty of productive developers contributed plenty of useful code. You're arguing the rules matter from within the context of the rules; that's begging the question.
> long term psychological effects of participating in a community where "nobody is kind to anybody" are
99% of people toughen up and move on with their lives and learn to not be so serious.
1% of people don't manage to do this. Some subset of that 1% get mad about it, and now they're using this as a hammer against massive numbers of normal, volunteer developers who just wanted to happily code without having to acquiesce to a particular brand of American progressivist moral licensing.
99% of people don't participate in open source, and much of the behavior we're talking about wouldn't be tolerated at any Western employer (except among the most senior untouchables).
I don't think that bolsters your argument. Having been around at its beginnings, FOSS itself wouldn't have been tolerated at any Western employer at that time. Consider that it was the rebels who didn't care about conforming or what was good for business/PR that made FOSS what it is today.
In the beginning there was no "FOSS" only Free Software. Only after the invention of Open Source as a more business compatible and less radical version FOSS came to life.
Those rules are entirely arbitrary and were made up as part of this new Code of Conduct bullshit. They didn't used to exist and plenty of productive developers contributed plenty of useful code. You're arguing the rules matter from within the context of the rules; that's begging the question.
> long term psychological effects of participating in a community where "nobody is kind to anybody" are
99% of people toughen up and move on with their lives and learn to not be so serious.
1% of people don't manage to do this. Some subset of that 1% get mad about it, and now they're using this as a hammer against massive numbers of normal, volunteer developers who just wanted to happily code without having to acquiesce to a particular brand of American progressivist moral licensing.