Property:Unacceptable behaviour
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This section expresses the behaviours not tolerated in the community. Ignoring these guidelines may result in action from the community.
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Active malware or exploits - Being part of a community includes not taking advantage of other members of the community. We do not allow anyone to use our platform for exploit delivery, such as using GitHub as a means to deliver malicious executables, or as attack infrastructure, for example by organizing denial of service attacks or managing command and control servers. Note, however, that we do not prohibit the posting of source code which could be used to develop malware or exploits, as the publication and distribution of such source code has educational value and provides a net benefit to the security community. +, Bullying and harassment - We do not tolerate bullying or harassment. This means any habitual badgering or intimidation targeted at a specific person or group of people. In general, if your actions are unwanted and you continue to engage in them, there's a good chance you are headed into bullying or harassment territory. +, Doxxing and invasion of privacy - Don't post other people's personal information, such as phone numbers, private email addresses, physical addresses, credit card numbers, Social Security/National Identity numbers, or passwords. Depending on the context, such as in the case of intimidation or harassment, we may consider other information, such as photos or videos that were taken or distributed without the subject's consent, to be an invasion of privacy, especially when such material presents a safety risk to the subject. +, …, …
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Violence or threats of violence toward another person. Incitement of violence towards any individual. Offensive and unwelcome comments, conversations or presentations related to background, family status, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, native language, age, ability, race and/or ethnicity, national origin, socioeconomic status, religion, geographic location, any other dimension of diversity. Deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, taking pictures or recording without permission. Sustained disruption of talks or other events. Inappropriate physical or social contact or sexual attention. +
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Jokes that resemble the above, such as ‘hipster racism’ are still not allowed, even if meant satirically or ironically. See this article for background. +, No advocating for members to be banned, except in direct messages, or private discussion with admins +, No deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse +, …, …
Harassment is not tolerated in any form. No matter who you are, if you feel threatened or violated as a result of intimidating, harassing, abusive, discriminatory, derogatory or demeaning conduct, or witness such behaviour, please immediately notify the contact person(s). +
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Ableism or discrimination against those who are neurodivergent, physically disabled, or mentally ill +, Advertising and spam +, 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. +, …, …
*No advertising or excessive promotion.
*No bots, unless they're cute, funny, or useful. Bots should avoid posting to the public timeline.
*No pornography.
*No gore or graphic violence.
*Content that is borderline NSFW or could be construed as NSFW at a glance should be put behind a CW (Content Warning).
*No racism.
*No sexism.
*No discrimination based on gender, sexual minority, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or national origin.
*No xenophobia, nationalism, casteism, or fascism; no sympathizing with or advocating for these things.
*No sexual depictions of children.
*No holocaust denialism, no Nazi symbolism, no promotion of National Socialism.
*No stalking or harassment. In general, if someone asks you to stop interacting with them, then stop.
*No posting (or threatening to post) other people's personally identifying information ("doxing").
*No unwelcome sexual attention.
*No public or private oppressive language or actions.
*No advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behaviour.
*No other unethical conduct.
*No scraping content from web interface or API.
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Attempting to circumvent a decision of the Committee or appeals body, e.g. unblocking someone during a period the Committee banned them. +, Disclosure of a person's identity or other private information without their consent. Disclosure of some identifying information is not consent to disclose other identifying information. +, Discrimination, particularly against marginalized and otherwise underrepresented groups. Targeted outreach to such groups is allowed and encouraged. +, …, …
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Being transphobic, racist, fascist, religious intolerants, etc... +, Don't share anyone's personal information without their consent, and delete content about a person should they ask. +, For profit companies account aren't allowed. (If you look around a bit there are servers made specifically for this) +, …, …
Don't talk about politics or religion in a way that may be considered trolling within the community. If you push peoples' buttons, it is considered very excellent to consider that you, at least in part, responsible. +, Noisebridge must not be involved in any activities which could affect legislation or political campaigns, with certain limited exemptions. While not illegal, these activities may be grounds for the IRS to revoke our tax exempt status. Talk to the officers of the corporation for guidance if you are unsure whether your proposed activities will be exempt or not. +, Taking stuff from the space, even very temporarily is a surefire way to cause problems. Taking stuff permanently is definitely unexcellent. +
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Harassment includes offensive activities and comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images, deliberate intimidation, stalking, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked by the event organizers to stop any harassment activities are expected to comply immediately. +, We won’t tolerate harassment of festival participants in any manner. Any participant, performer, speaker, sponsor, volunteer, staff or audience members violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the festival event at the discretion of the organizers. +
Harassment includes offensive verbal/electronic comments related to personal characteristics or choices, sexual images or comments in public or online spaces, deliberate intimidation, bullying, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks, IRC chats, electronic meetings, physical meetings or other events, inappropriate physical contact, or unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing or bullying behavior are expected to comply immediately. +, We do not tolerate harassment or bullying of any community member in any form. +
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Unacceptable behaviors include: intimidating, harassing, abusive, discriminatory, intentional misgendering, derogatory or demeaning speech or actions by any participant in our community online, at all related events and in one-on-one communications carried out in the context of community business. Community event venues may be shared with members of the public; please be respectful to all patrons of these locations. +, deliberate intimidation, stalking or following +, harmful or prejudicial verbal or written comments related to gender, trans status, sexual orientation, physical appearance, body size, technical choices, lack of technical knowledge, ability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion (or lack thereof) and other personal conditions and choices +, …, …
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We do not tolerate harassment, discrimination, inappropriate physical contact, unwelcomed sexual attention, or violent behavior in any form. +
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