<p>To expand a bit on @woodpecks comment: while we clearly want people to polite, fair and even handed in their communications and behaviour throughout the project (this would be my fav CoC btw), this cannot and should not in itself exclude people from different cultures and backgrounds from participating.</p>

<p>Case at hand are the continuing complaints from the US community that the talk list (as it is now, not way back) is "hostile" and we should apply a strict US-styls CoC to it, which would then exclude essentially everybody from areas with a direct culture if they do not subscribe to US style communications.</p>

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