My naive hope is that a code of conduct could be crafted with defensive measures to at least mitigate such problems, but that is probably hopeless in the face of bad actors.
I have some links bookmarked:
https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/325
That directly followed a failed attempt at enforcement that led to a fork:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170821212745/https://github.co...
This article covers the whole thing:
https://theoutline.com/post/2206/the-node-js-code-of-conduct...
An HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15101668
> My naive hope is that a code of conduct could be crafted with defensive measures to at least mitigate such problems
The problem isn't the letter of the law, it's that the rules don't seem to apply to certain groups of people.