My previous praising of how "things have calmed down" makes me feel stupid, because i had not put myself into the communication being passed off as "civil discourse".

This is (for lack of better words) cringe. Absolute cringe. It smatts of the Silicon Valley tech bro attitude that we all supposedly despise - complete with idol worship and frail masculinity.

This is not what was promised. This is not okay by means of the imagination, especially now with the geo-political situation.

This isn't something you can hide anymore. This will be clear to anyone with access to an LLM and the wherewithall to see what defines community morale.

Basically this means that as I've always said: THE #COC IS OPTIONAL, and that is intentional. Now you can allow people to play favourites, have insider cliques, enforcers, yada-yada-yada and so forth.

When public officials then figure this out, they will avoid you like the plague, because they already have previous experience with this sort.

Someone is going to eat my lunch? I've been commiting for 10+ years and I never got any lunch.