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Some ground rules.

These are set and enforced by the atx.pub moderators.

  1. Don't be a dick. If you screw up and get called out on it, apologize and move on, and try to learn from it. This one is vague, but as the Supreme Court said, "I know it when I see it." Similarly, try not to take deep offense easily. Reasonable people can disagree without violating this rule.
  2. No spam or advertising. You may promote yourself and causes you care about, but keep it reasonable.
  3. Please make use of content warnings (CW's) where appropriate. Things that should definitely get CWs (but not limited to): violence, trauma, imagery associated with those. Things you can CW (but shouldn't feel pressured to): politics, media, sports?
  4. Absolutely no: bigotry; racism; misogyny; xenophobia; discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual preferences, body type. (See Rule 1)
  5. No advocacy of violence or inciting violence, including harassment. This one will get you banned quickly.
  6. No commercial bots, follow bots, or any bots that annoy the admins of this instance. If you want to point a bot at us, please make it useful or something that elevates discourse.
  7. No stalking or harassment.
  8. Represent Austin well when interacting with the rest of the fediverse. If we get legitimate complaints about a user here from another admin, we will most likely take action to avoid being defederated.