The Linkshells Matrix rooms, IRC channels, and related communities are run by Cassandra Granade and Sarah Kaiser as a space to hang out with friends, family, and other folks we love spending time with. We want this to be a fun, pleasant, and harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
Harassment includes:
* Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion
* Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
* Deliberate misgendering or use of 'dead' or rejected names
* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they're not appropriate
* Simulated physical contact (e.g. textual descriptions like "*hug*" or "*backrub*") without consent or after a request to stop.
* Threats of violence
* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
* Deliberate intimidation
* Sustained disruption of discussion
* Unwelcome sexual attention
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
* Publication of non-harassing private communication
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the admins. They'll respond as promptly as they can.
We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we've received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the admins may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from this Space and identifying the participant publicly as someone about whom we've received complaints.
This code of conduct is based on:
Annalee Flower Horne's Sample Slack Code of Conduct
Geek Feminism's Community Anti-Harassment Policy.
We have adapted the Sample Slack Code of Conduct for our own use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License