There was some discussion about the Mozilla CoC in another sidethread here. If you constrast it with the LLVM CoC, there's an interesting tidbit in that the Mozilla one spells out explicitly that discussion in non-Mozilla spaces does not fall under the CoC and is a private matter. (This is in the LLVM one too, but much more implicitly)
This is almost certainly a reaction to Mozilla being attacked for the political/religious views of some of their contributors. The case of the CEO is the most well known (and granted a bit exceptional, so I won't consider it further), but due to the actual diversity of the Mozilla community people on both extremes of the relative spectrum spoke out and the CoC makes it clear when they can do so without retribution in the project, provided they don't use project resources to spread their opinion.
I think that's an example of a positive effect of a CoC.
> the Mozilla one spells out explicitly that discussion in non-Mozilla spaces does not fall under the CoC and is a private matter
Now, see, that is good (and frankly, surprisingly sensible given some of Mozilla's past behavior.) I'd be much less concerned about a code that spelled out things like that.
It's when CoC advocates strenuously fight against adding such terms that I get suspicious of their motives.
This is almost certainly a reaction to Mozilla being attacked for the political/religious views of some of their contributors. The case of the CEO is the most well known (and granted a bit exceptional, so I won't consider it further), but due to the actual diversity of the Mozilla community people on both extremes of the relative spectrum spoke out and the CoC makes it clear when they can do so without retribution in the project, provided they don't use project resources to spread their opinion.
I think that's an example of a positive effect of a CoC.