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

> On Jan 7, 2016, at 14:31, Dan Ackroyd <danack@basereality.com> wrote: > > On 7 January 2016 at 20:12, Paul M. Jones <pmjones88@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If the activity in question rises to the level of filing a petition for *and being granted* >> a restraining order, *then and only then* might the project have some responsibility to help enforce >> that order, since the project itself may become subject to a lawsuit or other legal actions. (I am >> satisfied to read "employee" as "contributor/participant" and >> "employer" as "the project" in this case.) >> >> But anything less? No, the project's responsibility is only to enforce its policies on >> its own communication channels. > > So you're saying, any harassment that failed to meet a criminal > criteria, wouldn't be acted upon. > > Any harassment where the person being harassed decides to just leave > the project rather than seek a court order, wouldn't be acted upon. > > Fun-fact*, if I went round to someone's house, took some photos of it, > maybe took some pictures of their family as well, and then sent them > those pictures with the message "Hey, are you going to fix that bug > that's important to me, or shall I come round to your house to discuss > it in person?", none of that would reach a criminal matter, and so > there would be nothing the PHP project could do about it. > > Don't get me wrong, that behaviour would be creepy as heck - but not > anything the police or a court could do anything about. Sure it would. You can get a restraining order, especially a temporary one, on the flimsiest of evidence. What makes you think a court would do nothing about it? -- 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