Movement Strategy Forum Guidelines
The implementation of the Movement Strategy (MS) requires collaboration across communities, projects, and languages. Hundreds of people must be able to learn from each other, work together, and have fun together. Newcomers should enjoy their MS involvement as much as oldtimers. Casual contributors should find opportunities to take part. Dedicated contributors should find the tools they need to get things done.
Community moderation ensures that the MS Forum remains a safe place where everyone, regardless of who they are, feels comfortable to contribute. This community moderation means:
- Participants can privately report report spam, vandalism, code of conduct violations or otherwise inappropriate content (only moderators and admins can see who is reporting).
- Participants can mute other users in their preferences, suppressing notifications of that user’s activity.
- Moderators can warn users who are behaving inappropriately, and scale up action to silencing on the platform, and blocking for specific periods of time, or indefinitely.
Moderation criteria are ultimately based on the Universal Code of Conduct.
Report a problem
People who experience or observe unacceptable behavior are encouraged to follow any of these steps:
- Ask the person who is behaving unacceptably to stop, in the MS Forum discussion itself. Make them aware of these guidelines.
- Use the flag button to report confidentially to MS Forum moderators for evaluation and action.
- After confidentially flagging to moderators, click the flag button again to elaborate on the flag in a private message to the user.
Review of reports
Moderators will review posts to the MS Forum for violations of this code of conduct. Comments that are abusive, harassing, or otherwise inappropriate will be deleted.
To learn more about the moderator roles, see Proposal: MS Forum moderation and administration.
MS Forum posting guidelines
No signatures in posts
Posts in the MS Forum should not contain signatures. All contributions are clearly attributable to users by design, and signatures add redundancy, clutter, and break up the flow of discussion. Users who would like to express themselves through a signature should edit their profile pages accordingly, and users looking to find out more about another user should visit that person’s profile page.
No off-topic links
All links provided in MS Forum discussions are expected to be relevant to the discussion in which they are posted. The MS Forum is an ad-free medium, and anyone posting advertisements, clickbait, or otherwise promotional links will be warned by moderators and have their links removed.