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Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

Our Pledge In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to make participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. Our Standards Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:

• Using welcoming and inclusive language
• Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
• Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
• Focusing on what is best for the community
• Showing empathy towards other community members

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

• The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
• Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
• Public or private harassment
• Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
• Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

All toots (public and private) should abide by the following rules:

• Do not post any illegal content, including sexual depictions of children, or any other content illegal in the United States.
• Do not use slurs or racist, sexist, genderist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist or otherwise discriminatory or hateful jokes or language or promote white supremacy, anti-Semitism, transphobia or other hateful ideologies.
• Do not harass anyone, participate in group harassment of anyone, or otherwise engage in personal attacks.
• Posting or threatening to post other people’s personally identifying information (“doxing”) constitutes harassment.
• Do not be intentionally antagonistic. A post or reply designed to provoke a confrontation is not acceptable.
• Do not post adult content without a content warning, including pictures containing nudity, or unwelcome sexual attention (including sexualized comments or jokes).
• Do not spread disinformation or conspiracy theories that undermine public health. Healthy scientific debate is allowed but baseless, harmful conspiracies will not be tolerated.
• Holocaust denial, Nazi symbolism, and promotion of National Socialism is strictly forbidden.
• Do not post spam. Toots that are nothing other than a link and/or contain an inordinate number of hashtags constitute spam, as does any overly commercial self-promotion. (It is fine, however, to toot about your own projects and share what you are excited to be working on — just keep the toot itself interesting).
• Do not use automated tools to toot without participating in the community, without explicit permission from the the administrator and/or moderators of vermont.masto.host. It is fine to post with an automated tool (e.g., a Twitter cross-poster) so long as you are an active member of the vermont.masto.host community and respond to replies you receive here. However, unmonitored accounts that post automatically are not acceptable.

Our Responsibilities

Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.

Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all project spaces, and it also applies when an individual is representing the project or its community in public spaces.

Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting the project team at brendankinney AT gmail.com. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident.

Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately. Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other members of the project’s leadership.

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 1.4, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html

For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq

1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, or casteism.
2. No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
3. No harassment, bullying or doxxing of other users.
4. Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
5. Do not post spam. Toots that are nothing other than a link and/or contain an inordinate number of hashtags constitute spam, as does any overly commercial self-promotion.

1. activitypub-troll.cf: limited
2. bae.st: limited
3. bgzashtita.es: limited
4. eatthebugs.social: limited
5. fans.sonichu.com: limited
6. fr13nd5.com: limited
7. krdtube.org: limited
8. pooper.social: limited
9. seal.cafe: limited
10. sinblr.com: limited

1. nothing.tacowolf.net: suspension