[NNagain] Modes of conduct

[Dave Taht]

I have often longed to have a countdown timer in a video conference to
take the speaker off the stage, as well as for the audience vote
en-mass and anonymously to do that or extend time.

Most projects these days have adopted a code of conduct that has
protections against all sorts of discrimination, and has had something
of a chilling effect on basic forms of humor - and I wish that more
had a code of ethics attached, and even more that automated assistance
existed to recognize various manipulation techniques. We found it
necessary in this project to - Not so far as Roberts rules of order,
we (Pete Heist) wrote:

"With a scientific approach there is no need to argue over anything
with stress, or to give others coronaries, as it were. There is no
shame in being “wrong”, nor everlasting glory in being “right”, about
anything, if one yields to well-gathered evidence. There’s just the
scientific process. The bulldozer of science.

We suggest this - and a good sense of humor! - as a part of any policy
to avoid logical fallacies, and to at least admit or recognize them
when we do.

We don’t see too many logical fallacies from this crowd. What we see
more often is that we sometimes lack the data to draw certain
conclusions, because we don’t always have the time and resources to
collect it. So we use our intuition when we have to (and there are
some pretty darn good ones in this group), but we do have to be
careful about what final conclusions we draw. Assertions and
hypotheses for sake of discussion starters should be fine, and we
shouldn’t be afraid to be wrong with those, lest we freeze before
saying or trying anything. We will try to avoid Argumentum ad baculum,
Proof by intimidation, Thought terminating cliche’s, Single cause
fallacies, Regression fallacies, Proof by repeated Assertion, and
Argument from authority." --
https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/ecn-sane/wiki/rules/


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Oct 30: https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html
Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos