# Update to the Zcash Contributors CoC

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/update-to-the-zcash-contributors-coc/37567>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 12, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/update-to-the-zcash-contributors-coc/37567 "2020-10-12T12:19:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![daira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/daira/32/43253_2.png) [@daira](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/daira)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/update-to-the-zcash-contributors-coc/37567/8 "2020-10-13T08:28:12Z")

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> [@mistfpga](#):
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> I must stress that the aim is laudable, but I don’t think it does it without lots of unintended consequences.
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> Thanks for posting the fuller context. I was trying to make a point of it specifically calls out the right wing and does not do the same for the left. This implies that saying things like “LGTBT” is acceptable. (Liberals Get The Bullet Too - also sometimes used as LGBT - this stuff gets confusing, eh.)

The purpose of the addition is to address a real-world tactic of the alt-right and white supremacists. I didn’t write it to appear balanced just for the sake of it; I wrote it to address a concrete problem that we actually have. For the record, yes, something like LGTBT would be unacceptable because it’s a specific threat (but something like ACAB might not be, depending on other context).

LGBT wouldn’t because the idea that leftists use that to mean “Liberals Get the Bullet Too” is _not a real thing_. It’s a right-wing talking point.

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> > This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community.
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> I stream esports. My chat has used and I have encouraged chat to use clown world.

In that case, you should stop using [an anti-Semitic, white supremacist meme](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Clown_World), if you care at all about Jewish people and people of colour.

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> Primarily due to an opponent building a team that is RNG based. When two of these team compete it is called a clown fiesta.
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> If I switch my stream in the afternoon to z2z messenger dev stuff, or zcash fpga stuff, do I now have to ban the emote from my chat

Yes, you do.

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> and then explain to my chat how they are now racists? I am technically a project maintainer in this situation and obligated to treat them and their comments by the zcash CoC.

You must explain to them this requirement of the Community CoC.

I know it probably feels bad to have used an anti-Semitic meme and have to do something about that. You’ll get over it.

To _not_ do something about it and just continue doing the same thing, would, in fact, be racist.

> [@mistfpga](#):
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> This is unambiguously stating that if I am a project maintainer, I have to censor clown world or face the consequences.

Yes, that is what it is saying (quibbles about whether the term “censor” really applies aside).

BTW, Orwell may have made significant contributions to literature but [he had his own flaws](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Criticism), and we’d apply the CoC equally to him too if he were here.

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