Mastodon.art

Code of Conduct

The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of Mastodon.ART. These guidelines are here to provide you with an insight into the site and moderation policies because all members are guests here:

1. All users, local and remote, are expected to adhere to the following principles:

a. If you repost others' work, you must credit the original artist/author, and must include some form of analysis or opinion on the work posted. Pure reposting of other people's work is not permitted.
b. Posting the same or similar content on multiple different instances (Fediverse servers) in order to spam local and/or federated timelines is not permitted.
c. Respect other users' boundaries. Be respectful and sincerely apologize if someone informs you that a boundary has been crossed. Give people space if you accidentally push past a boundary.
d. If you find yourself involved in a conflict and are worried about the situation escalating, contact your moderation team.
e. Tag sensitive content such as violence/blood, NSFW content, and other potentially upsetting or triggering topics and hide them under a Content Warning (CW). CW is a big part of the culture of the Fediverse, and CW potentially upsetting content is how we keep our community and the wider Fediverse safe and supportive for everyone. (We also recommend people CW political posts, but we will not mandate it.)

2. All users, local and remote, will be considered in the wrong in a conversation that goes sour if they participate in the following:

a. Microaggressions ("not all men", white/man/cis-splaining, using the wrong pronouns to address someone after being corrected, ableism, etc.)
b. Demanding education on problematic behaviour from a non-admin/moderator
c. Skirting the lines of being a troll, or directly trolling
d. Sharing DM screenshots or quotes from DMs or private communications publicly without all parties' permission
e. Creating memes about someone without their permission
f. Ranting or engaging in long rambling tangents on public timelines about a particular user without explicitly naming them (also known as "subtooting")
g. Not tagging potentially sensitive or triggering toots

This is not an exhaustive list, and all moderation decisions are ultimately left up to the discretion of our mod team. If any of these don't make sense, please speak with an admin or moderator. We are more than happy to help you understand the problems with these kinds of behaviours.

3. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:

a. Advertising and spam
b. Unapproved news bots, post bots or follow bots
c. Untagged/non-content-warned NSFW content
d. Pornographic or sexually explicit imagery that isn't tagged/content-warned and marked as Unlisted or Followers Only
e. Untagged/non-content-warned gore and extremely graphic violence

4. The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:

a. Racism or advocation of racism
b. Sexism or advocation of sexism
c. Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
d. Ableism or discrimination against those who are neurodivergent, physically disabled, or mentally ill
e. Xenophobia and/or violent nationalism, or advocation thereof

5. The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:

a. Sexual depictions of minors, real or fictional
b. Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
c. Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism

6. •ART has a zero-tolerance mandate for harassment or bullying — your account will be immediately suspended.

7. Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, impede other users from using the service, degrade the performance of the service, or incite others to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:

a. Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
b. Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called "doxing") will be considered harassment.
c. Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called "brigading" or "dogpiling") may be considered harassment.

8. Please do not flood the local timeline. We define "flooding" as posting three or more times per five minutes to the local/public timeline (but the definition is flexible; judgements on what is "flooding" or not will be made in context). Flooding drowns out other users and annoys instances we federate with.

• You can reply to the toots of others and banter back and forth as much as you want, as replies aren't shown on the local/public timelines.
  
• Please avoid posting many pieces of art/media all at once. Sticking to one post per ten minutes (with one-four pictures attached) is a good baseline to follow. Please respect others' content and statuses so that they can discover other artists in the local timeline.
  
• If you'd like to post long threads of many toots, consider marking the first toot as "public", and the rest in replies marked as "unlisted". This will allow users to click through the first toot to read the rest of the thread without flooding the local/public timelines.
  

9.Regarding nudity/NSFW content:

• Illustrative nudity, body/anatomy studies, and titillating imagery intended for mature audiences (eg. "pin-ups") are allowed on •ART, but only if tagged appropriately (ex. #NSFW, #nudity, #lewd, etc.) and marked as sensitive or placed under a descriptive content warning.
  • Tags are required so people have the opportunity to filter such content from their timelines altogether.
  • Descriptive text is required so that people can make an informed decision about whether to engage with the content below the cut/image blur or not.
  • If you're unsure whether to mark a work as sensitive or post it under a Content Warning, consider the following hypothetical questions: Is it something you'd be comfortable viewing in a white collar work situation? Is it something you'd be comfortable being viewed by a minor? Would you happily show it to your parents? A no to any of these questions may require it being CWed/marked as sensitive. If you're still unsure, marking it as sensitive/CWing it is a good bet.
  • Another way to decide whether to mark a work as sensitive or post it under a Content Warning is to remember the Three B's: If your work features any Boobs, Butts, or Bits (genitals), hide that sucker!

• Illustrative pornography and depictions of explicit sex acts or sexual nudity (e.g. erect or engorged genitalia, body fluids, manual manipulation of genitalia, sex toys in use, highly detailed depictions of genitalia, etc.) must be posted as "Unlisted" or "Followers Only" with appropriate tags/CWs. (You can change the visibility of your posts by pressing the globe icon under the toot compose box.)
• Loli or sexual content of questionable age is expressly prohibited — your account will be suspended. (This includes cub porn.)
• Nude photographs are only allowed if done in an artistic spirit — however, it still needs to be tagged and CWed/marked as sensitive. Erotic photography, pornography, or photography that puts too much emphasis on the genitals is not allowed, even if marked "Unlisted"/"Followers Only".
• We understand that these things are subjective, but final interpretation of these rules are up to our moderation team. If in doubt, consider whether •ART is the right place for this kind of sexual/explicit work.

10. Gore, vore, and blood violence must also be placed under a descriptive content warning or marked sensitive.

11. •ART's administration team reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, as well as to remove your data at any time due to inactivity of any duration (to help against future unmonitored accounts from being hacked and becoming spam bots), unethical use, or usage against •ART’s CoC/ToS. This includes repeatedly skirting the lines of rules in bad faith without explicitly crossing them, or without attempting to understand and respect the spirit in which these rules were written.