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This is also the second time a CoC has been proposed; the first time got quite a lot of negative feedback, unsurprisingly. Pretty common for Codes of Conduct to get used as political weapons against people; when moderation actions are actually necessary, it's almost always obvious to any reasonable person, and simply being transparent about what was done and why is sufficient.