A mastodon server for the Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis community!

To contribute to #ESMARConf visit open collective: https://opencollective.com/esmarconf#category-CONTRIBUTE

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Described herein, the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon (ESH) refers to an event series, consisting of in-person or online activities undertaken by voluntary groups of individuals (Participants). The ESMARConf (Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference) is the ESH’s flagship annual online conference. social.esmarconf.org refers to the mastodon instance associated with ESMARConf, which will be used as a social media platform for ESMARConf in the run-up, during and after the conference takes place.

When using social.esmarconf.org, you agree to abide by the overarching ESH & ESMARConf Accessibility Policy and Code of Conduct, as well as the additional, social.esmarconf.org Code of Conduct detailed here. This code of conduct is adapted from that of mastodon.social.

The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of social.esmarconf.org they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies.

Contributing to ESH & ESMARConf

If you want to contribute to help ESMARConf you can do so via open collective.

ESH & ESMARConf Code of Conduct

Our overarching Code of Conduct for social.esmarconf.org is the same as that of ESH & ESMARConf more generally, namely that:

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  People will be treated with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
  
  
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  At all times people’s feelings will be valued and respected. Language or humour that people find offensive will not be used, e.g. sexist or racist jokes or terminology which is derogatory to someone with a disability.
  
  
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  No one will be harassed, abused or intimidated on the grounds of his or her race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age. Incidents of harassment will be taken seriously.
  
  

Removal of content from social.esmarconf.org public timeline

The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline: * Excessive advertising * Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources * Untagged nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content, including artistic depictions * Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence, including artistic depictions

Removal of content from social.esmarconf.org public timeline alongside account suspension or revocation

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: * Racism or advocation of racism * Sexism or advocation of sexism * Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof * Discrimination of any type against protected characteristics, or advocation thereof * Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism

Removal of content from social.esmarconf.org public timeline alongside account revocation

The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service: * Sexual depictions of children * Content illegal in the United Kingdom

Treatment of other harmful content

Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users 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 behaviours: * Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed. * Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called doxing or dropping dox) may be considered harassment. * 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.

These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from that of mastodon.social.

1. People will be treated with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
2. At all times people’s feelings will be valued and respected. Language or humour that people find offensive will not be used, e.g. sexist or racist jokes or terminology which is derogatory to someone with a disability.
3. No one will be harassed, abused or intimidated on the grounds of his or her race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability or age. Incidents of harassment will be taken seriously.

1. aethy.com: limitation
2. infosec.exchange: limitation
3. mastodon.de: limitation
4. mastodon.juggler.jp: suspension
5. muenchen.social: limitation
6. photog.social: limitation
7. soc.jrconlin.com: limitation
8. social.afront.org: suspension
9. under-bank.blue: suspension