Clean Coder

It was just a few years ago, at the height of the Me Too revelations, that codes of conduct began to prominently appear in Software Conferences. At the time I felt this was appropriate given the horror stories that had been circulating about sexual harassment and misbehavior at some of those conferences. I wrote a blog about it at the time.

Since then I have seen the other side of the coin. Codes of conduct have been used as weapons to exclude people on the basis of their political opinions, or on the basis of their associations, or just because someone didn’t like them. I have written blogs about this as well. (1), (2)

As much as I think that codes of conduct are a good idea, we must not allow them to be weaponized. If we are going to set up rules with consequences, then we also need

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