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Remove ambiguity re: scope of enforcement. #32

Closed mprelude closed 8 years ago

mprelude commented 8 years ago

Remove ambiguous content, you can't say "Your private life is your own" and also threaten to use it in judgements relating to the project.

derickr commented 8 years ago

I'm going to close this. We're not at this stage yet, and I also don't agree with it.

padraic commented 8 years ago

To be clear, removal of "private life" statements refers to public statements. Once public, they are in no way subject to privacy or confidentiality. The same applies to private emails - if released by a recipient under the existing confidentiality priority.

Such statements can paint a picture starkly different to purely project related statements, and there is no employer or forum on the planet that would fail to take them into account.

Maintaining these inputs is also a critical factor to preventing behaviour outside the project from being used to deliberately avoid censure by the project, e.g. committing abuses on Twitter and claiming that the abuse falls outside of the COC since it never occured on the mailing list (despite the target of the abuse being a fellow PHP project participant).

derickr commented 8 years ago

Thanks @padraic — you seem to manage to write down exactly what I think about this (again!)