Re: [RFC] [Draft] Adopt Code of Conduct

> On Jan 7, 2016, at 11:48, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > > Given these ratios are in no way unique to this project, and continue to > hold in projects having CoCs, I think this hypothesis (that it caused by > something we, as in PHP community, did) is very likely to be false. > More likely, this ratio has to do with factors having nothing to do with > our community, or us having CoC, and having CoC would have absolutely > zero measurable effect on it. > > On the side note, blindly grasping around on the principle "maybe we did > something, we don't know what or how, so let's take actions that we > don't know if they would help or not and have zero empirical basis to > evaluate them, but since we can't rigorously prove they wouldn't let's > do it anyway" does not sound like rational strategy to me. Hear, hear. I have seen that approach described elsewhere thusly, on an economics blog of all places: "We must do something; *this* is something; therefore, we must do *this*." -- Paul M. Jones pmjones88@gmail.com http://paul-m-jones.com Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP https://leanpub.com/mlaphp Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP https://leanpub.com/sn1php