Community Guidelines and Moderation Rules
Quick guide
Do’s:
- Treat others with respect and professionalism.
- Collaborate, support, and share details in discussions.
- Contribute relevant and meaningful content.
- Respect privacy, confidentiality, and intellectual property.
- Follow the guidance of moderators.
- Utilize available resources before asking questions.
Don’ts:
- Engage in personal attacks, offensive language, or harassment.
- Spam, self-promote, or post irrelevant content.
- Share personal or sensitive information without consent.
- Plagiarize or claim others’ work as your own.
- Target specific community members with tags.
- Engage in disrespectful behavior.
To keep the community clean:
- Don’t start a topic in the wrong category; please read the category definitions.
- Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
- Don’t post no-content replies.
- Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
- Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.
Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.
Moderation principles and guidelines📜
1. Respect and Professionalism:
- Treat all community members with respect and professionalism. Avoid personal attacks, offensive language, or any form of harassment or discrimination.
- Maintain a positive and constructive tone in discussions and interactions.
2. Collaboration and Support
- Foster a collaborative environment by actively engaging in discussions, sharing knowledge, and offering support to fellow community members.
- Share as many details as possible (images, automation links, looms, reproduction steps, etc.) when seeking help or reporting issues.
3. Relevant and Meaningful Contributions:
- Contribute relevant and meaningful content to the discussions. Avoid spamming, self-promotion, or irrelevant posts.
- Keep discussions in a single thread to maintain organization and facilitate follow-up.
4. Privacy and Confidentiality:
- Respect the privacy and confidentiality of other community members. Do not share personal or sensitive information without consent.
- Refrain from sharing confidential or proprietary information about Bardeen or any other third parties.
5. Intellectual Property and Attribution:
- Respect copyright laws and intellectual property rights. Provide proper attribution when sharing content, ideas, or resources from external sources.
- Do not engage in plagiarism or claim others’ work as your own.
6. Moderation and Flagging:
- Follow the guidance of community moderators and adhere to their decisions.
- Flag any content or behavior that violates the community guidelines for review by moderators.
7. Utilize Available Resources:
- Before posting, take the time to search for answers. Check tutorials, blogs, FAQs, and other resources to find solutions.
- If you don’t find the answer after 20 minutes of searching, feel free to ask for help.
8. Avoid Targeting Individuals:
- Don’t tag specific community members. We are an open community where anyone can participate and provide answers. Let’s not target individuals to answer questions.
9. Respectful Behavior:
- Be respectful in all interactions. Disrespectful behavior, including personal attacks or offensive language, will not be tolerated.
- Violation of respectful behavior may result in removal from the community.