# Recent clarification to the Code of Conduct

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/recent-clarification-to-the-code-of-conduct/3105>\
**Category:** announcements\
**Created:** [January 22, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/recent-clarification-to-the-code-of-conduct/3105 "2016-01-22T18:44:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![nikomatsakis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/nikomatsakis/32/5410_2.png) [@nikomatsakis](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/nikomatsakis)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/recent-clarification-to-the-code-of-conduct/3105/1 "2016-01-22T18:44:41Z")

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Dear fellow Rustaceans,

I wanted to post notice regarding a [recent clarification to the Code of Conduct](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-www/pull/288). In particular, the original CoC began with the following text:

> We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, religion, or similar personal characteristic.

We've updated this list of example characteristics to be more inclusive, per current best practices (more specifically, we are incorporating the list from the [Contributor's Covenant v1.3.0](http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/3/0/)):

> We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.

This is not intended as a change to the actual meaning of the CoC, since all of these characteristics were intended to be implied by the original wording. However, there is a benefit to being more explicit: it sends a clearer signal to members of specific underrepresented or frequently mistreated groups, to say that we hold them in mind, and intend to keep our spaces safe for them.

Thank you very much! You may now return to your regularly scheduled Rust discussions.

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**Author:** ![vi0](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/vi0/32/750_2.png) [@vi0](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/vi0)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/recent-clarification-to-the-code-of-conduct/3105/2 "2016-01-23T23:21:34Z")

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> ... providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment ...

> safe

Except of inside `unsafe {}` blocks?

There is a Dark Side of Rust, so there can be a Dark Side of the community.

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**Author:** ![steveklabnik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/steveklabnik/32/4524_2.png) [@steveklabnik](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/steveklabnik)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/recent-clarification-to-the-code-of-conduct/3105/3 "2016-01-23T23:48:00Z")

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> [@vi0](#):
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> Except of inside unsafe {} blocks?

While this is clearly a joke, the Code of Conduct is not, and we take it very seriously.

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**Author:** ![nnethercote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dfb087/32.png) [@nnethercote](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/nnethercote)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/recent-clarification-to-the-code-of-conduct/3105/4 "2016-01-28T21:19:07Z")

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The “level of experience” is a nice touch, because that’s something that wasn’t necessarily implied by the previous wording, at least in my mind.

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**Author:** ![comex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/comex/32/2587_2.png) [@comex](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/comex)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/recent-clarification-to-the-code-of-conduct/3105/5 "2016-01-28T22:11:31Z")

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Nitpick: ‘characteristic’ should probably be either plural or qualified by ‘any’.

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**Author:** ![nikomatsakis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/nikomatsakis/32/5410_2.png) [@nikomatsakis](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/nikomatsakis)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/recent-clarification-to-the-code-of-conduct/3105/6 "2019-03-25T08:25:42Z")

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