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Code of conduct

2023-02-03T21:46:14Z

Wolftune: Added cooperation with CWG per https://www.loomio.com/d/Ahx86rZJ/framework-for-moderation/104

= Social.Coop Member Code of Conduct v3.1 =

== 1. Purpose and Values ==
As a cooperative, social.coop is based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity. Our members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others. We also follow the rest of the [https://www.ica.coop/en/whats-co-op/co-operative-identity-values-principles ICA co-op principles].

We welcome anyone able to use our services and willing to accept the responsibilities of membership, regardless of qualities such as gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, family structure, spirituality, religion (or lack thereof), education, or other personal traits. We particularly celebrate diversity and do not tolerate bigotry or prejudice. Diverse opinions on politics, religion, and other matters are welcome as long as they align with our core values. Let there be no confusion, Social.Coop is anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-transphobic.

== 2. Scope ==
We expect all social.coop community participants to abide by this Code of Conduct in all community venues and in any other context pertaining to community business, including in-person events.

This code of conduct and its related procedures also applies to unacceptable behaviour by Social.Coop members occurring outside the scope of community activities.

We expect users on other instances to respect our members and treat them according to our Code of Conduct. We will defend our users and protect them from abuse. See the [[Federation abuse policy|Federation Abuse Policy]].

== 3. Encouraged Behaviour ==
I will:

* Help maintain a culture of inclusivity and open participation
* Show care, consideration, and respect for others.
* Keep in mind the potential for misunderstandings, avoiding initial assumptions of bad faith.
* Keep criticism constructive.
* Attempt to de-escalate conflicts as they arise (see [[Conflict resolution guide|Conflict Resolution Guidelines]])
* Recognize and respect the legitimacy of resistance to abuse and oppression.
* Participate in an authentic way.

== 4. Unacceptable Behaviour ==
I will not:

* Use violence, threats of violence, or violent language directed against another person.
* Harass — defined as continuing to interact with or post about another person after having been asked to stop.
** This includes, but is not limited to, unwelcome sexual attention, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and dogpiling.
* Make offensive, harmful, or abusive comments or insults, particularly in relation to diverse traits (as referenced in our values above).
* Advocate or encourage any of the above behaviour.

== 5. Content ==
I am responsible for the content I share, and will:

* Always use content warnings (CWs) when sharing content that:
** is likely to be distressing or hurtful to others
** should require consent to view
** includes discussions or depictions of violence, sexually explicit material, and/or common PT triggers
** includes flashing or rapidly changing images
* Strive to make posts accessible with alt-text descriptions for visual media and transcriptions for audio.
* Give credit and recognize the contributions of others.
* Promote products or services provided by individuals, cooperatives, or aligned communities over those provided by non-co-op, for-profit companies.

I will not post, threaten to post, nor share from this instance or external sources:

* Personally Identifiable Information about others. (“doxing”)
* Sexual Material that is either:
** Without consent, or
** Depicting individuals appearing to be under age 18 — including Loli.
** Excessively frequent promotions of a product or service (i.e. spam)
* Material that promotes bigotry, including fascist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, or transphobic content.

== 6. Reporting & Resolving ==
I accept the responsibility to report any Code of Conduct violations I see, whether or not they affect me personally. See [[Reporting guide|Reporting Guidelines v3.1]]

If I am comfortable and believe it will help, I will consider contacting the violator privately to respectfully ask that they remove the violation.

If the Community Working Group (CWG) contacts me about my role in any conduct complaint, I will cooperate with their process and guidance, communicating respectfully and working with them to make clear agreements for resolving the situation.

For conflicts or sensitive issues -- i.e, situations that do not involve abuse or other violations of the Code of Conflict -- options include:

# engaging publicly or privately with others (perhaps with help) to constructively resolve our differences
# blocking or muting a user
# reporting the incident to social.coop to seek help in resolving the conflict

See [[Conflict Resolution Guide|Conflict Resolution Guidelines]]

== 7. Resources ==
The Community Working Group will maintain a list of resources about codes of conduct and strategies for constructive and healthy discussion online.

== 8. License and Attribution ==
This Code of Conduct is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Portions of text derived from the Citizen Code of Conduct. Revision 2.2. Posted 6 March 2017.

Conflict resolution guide

2023-01-09T19:39:48Z

Wolftune: Updated the edit-request section now that Mastodon supports edits.

''September 8, 2018''

''These guidelines were part of the Reporting Guidelines approved by membership vote on September 1, 2018. This version separates Conflict Resolution from Incident Reporting in order to clarify the difference between the two approaches. It also includes revisions made since the 9/1/2018 vote.''
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== Conflict Resolution Guidelines v3.1 ==

=== Handling Conflicts ===
Social.Coop is based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity. In the tradition of their founders, cooperative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others.

Our top priority is the safety of each of our members and our community as a whole. We will not tolerate bigotry, including fascist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, or transphobic content and will act swiftly and decisively to protect our members from abuse. We embrace the principles of restorative justice. We want to give people a chance to correct mistakes and learn from them.

=== How to Initiate Conflict Resolution ===
We want to prevent conflicts from leading to Code of Conduct violations. We also seek to avoid having productive discussions get derailed by problem posts or by meta discussions of such posts. In the case of conflicts that do not involve violations of the Code of Conduct you should use your best judgment in choosing from the following options:

# Bring the concern to the other member directly via Direct Message.
# Enlist more support from Social.Coop member(s).
# File a formal report to the Community Working Group Operations Team (CWG Ops Team).

==== 1. Bring the concern to the other member directly ====
If you feel capable and safe in doing so, discuss your concerns directly with the other person.

Use your best judgment to decide whether to discuss the issue publicly or privately.

For addressing a particular problem post, consider the following template: "I noticed your [post]. Although you may not have intended it, one interpretation is ______, and I feel that is not reflective of [list specific relevant portion(s) of CoC]. Would you please (edit your post | take down your post | put a CW on your post)?"

When engaging in dialogue to resolve concerns, consider the following:

* Foster inclusive dialogue by sharing ideas, asking clarifying questions, and responding to others' ideas.
* Identify personal wants and needs.
* Make offers or requests.
* Propose plans to help resolve in a mutually satisfactory way.

You can request edits or deletions be made where feasible such as for toots in Mastodon, posts in Loomio, comments in the Matrix space, and content at the wiki.

You can request public retractions, corrections, clarifications, and/or apologies as appropriate (particularly where many people saw a problem post before editing or during a live call, among other cases).

==== 2. Enlist More Support ====
If you aren't comfortable contacting someone yourself but think such outreach from someone else would be appropriate, ask for help.

* '''Private support''' -- Talk privately to member(s) of the CWG Ops Team or a mutually trusted friend to help you resolve conflicts with other Social.Coop members or other participants in Social.Coop spaces. Make a plan together about what you're going to do.
* '''Expanded dialogue''' -- Social.Coop members may seek to informally resolve their conflicts by discussing them with a group of mutually trusted Social.Coop members. This should be done confidentially.

Someone else can contact the other person on your behalf and keep you anonymous.

* If you can, you could still help by providing a clear message to send, such as using the template in the section above.

==== 3. File a Report ====
Remember, you are always free to file an incident report to the CWG Ops Team to seek help in resolving conflicts. Please see 1 above. We do not look negatively on reports that we determine to describe incidents that do not constitute violations of the Code of Conduct, (unless excessive reporting is used as a form of harassment).

See the [Link: Reporting Guidelines] for how to file a report.

Code of conduct

2023-01-09T19:29:50Z

Wolftune: bullet indentation fix

= Social.Coop Member Code of Conduct v3.1 =

== 1. Purpose and Values ==
As a cooperative, social.coop is based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity. Our members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others. We also follow the rest of the [https://www.ica.coop/en/whats-co-op/co-operative-identity-values-principles ICA co-op principles].

We welcome anyone able to use our services and willing to accept the responsibilities of membership, regardless of qualities such as gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, family structure, spirituality, religion (or lack thereof), education, or other personal traits. We particularly celebrate diversity and do not tolerate bigotry or prejudice. Diverse opinions on politics, religion, and other matters are welcome as long as they align with our core values. Let there be no confusion, Social.Coop is anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-transphobic.

== 2. Scope ==
We expect all social.coop community participants to abide by this Code of Conduct in all community venues and in any other context pertaining to community business, including in-person events.

This code of conduct and its related procedures also applies to unacceptable behaviour by Social.Coop members occurring outside the scope of community activities.

We expect users on other instances to respect our members and treat them according to our Code of Conduct. We will defend our users and protect them from abuse. See the [[Federation abuse policy|Federation Abuse Policy]].

== 3. Encouraged Behaviour ==
I will:

* Help maintain a culture of inclusivity and open participation
* Show care, consideration, and respect for others.
* Keep in mind the potential for misunderstandings, avoiding initial assumptions of bad faith.
* Keep criticism constructive.
* Attempt to de-escalate conflicts as they arise (see [[Conflict resolution guide|Conflict Resolution Guidelines]])
* Recognize and respect the legitimacy of resistance to abuse and oppression.
* Participate in an authentic way.

== 4. Unacceptable Behaviour ==
I will not:

* Use violence, threats of violence, or violent language directed against another person.
* Harass — defined as continuing to interact with or post about another person after having been asked to stop.
** This includes, but is not limited to, unwelcome sexual attention, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and dogpiling.
* Make offensive, harmful, or abusive comments or insults, particularly in relation to diverse traits (as referenced in our values above).
* Advocate or encourage any of the above behaviour.

== 5. Content ==
I am responsible for the content I share, and will:

* Always use content warnings (CWs) when sharing content that:
** is likely to be distressing or hurtful to others
** should require consent to view
** includes discussions or depictions of violence, sexually explicit material, and/or common PT triggers
** includes flashing or rapidly changing images
* Strive to make posts accessible with alt-text descriptions for visual media and transcriptions for audio.
* Give credit and recognize the contributions of others.
* Promote products or services provided by individuals, cooperatives, or aligned communities over those provided by non-co-op, for-profit companies.

I will not post, threaten to post, nor share from this instance or external sources:

* Personally Identifiable Information about others. (“doxing”)
* Sexual Material that is either:
** Without consent, or
** Depicting individuals appearing to be under age 18 — including Loli.
** Excessively frequent promotions of a product or service (i.e. spam)
* Material that promotes bigotry, including fascist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, or transphobic content.

== 6. Reporting ==
I accept the responsibility to report any Code of Conduct violations I see, whether or not they affect me personally.

If I am comfortable and believe it will help, I will consider contacting the violator privately to respectfully ask that they remove the violation.

See [[Reporting guide|Reporting Guidelines v3.1]]

For conflicts or sensitive issues -- i.e, situations that do not involve abuse or other violations of the Code of Conflict -- options include:

# engaging publicly or privately with others (perhaps with help) to constructively resolve our differences
# blocking or muting a user
# reporting the incident to social.coop to seek help in resolving the conflict

See [[Conflict Resolution Guide|Conflict Resolution Guidelines]]

== 7. Resources ==
The Community Working Group will maintain a list of resources about codes of conduct and strategies for constructive and healthy discussion online.

== 8. License and Attribution ==
This Code of Conduct is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Portions of text derived from the Citizen Code of Conduct. Revision 2.2. Posted 6 March 2017.