Rules and Code of Conduct for Mast.Market

Mast.Market is a place for apps and companies to build community and provide customer support. We welcome you to participate in the community, help your customers, and even find new ones. But there are ground rules to follow:

• You may use Mast.Market to post freely about anything you want within our standard Code of Conduct (see below).
• You may contact users who follow you, directly @ you to ask questions, or otherwise @ you in a toot.
• Do not spam Mastodon users. Spam takes a number of forms, including:
  • Contacting users who do not directly mention your company or product
  • Mass mentioning followers with whom you are not already in a thread/conversation
  • Posting multiple times to hashtags that are not related to your company, product, or market

Mast.Market Code of Conduct

Mast.Market is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

This code of conduct applies to all Mast.Market accounts and those who run them, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the instance admins. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

Longer version

Mast.Market is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

This code of conduct applies to all Mast.Market accounts and those who run them, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the instance admins. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.

Harassment includes:

• Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, 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 behaviour in spaces where they’re not appropriate.
• Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, 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.
• Stalking or following.
• Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
• Sustained disruption of discussion.
• Unwelcome sexual attention.
• Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
• Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
• Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
• Publication of non-harassing private communication.

Switch Time prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. Mini Boss and Final Boss roles reserves the right not to act on complaints regarding:

• ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
• Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you.”
• Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
• Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

Reporting

If you are being harassed by a member of Mast.Market, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the instance admin.

This code of conduct applies to Mast.Market spaces, but if you are being harassed by a member of Mast.Market outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Mast.Market members, especially the leadership team, seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. The abuse team reserves the right to exclude people from Mast.Market based on their past behavior, including behavior outside Mast.Market spaces and behavior towards people who are not in Switch Time.

In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.

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, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of Mast.Market members or the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the instance admin may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all Mast.Market spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other Mast.Market members or the general public.

License and attribution

This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license . It is public domain , no credit and no open licencing of your version is required.

If you would like to optionally attribute it, you could use the below text and link to http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Community_anti-harassment:

• This anti-harassment policy is based on the example policy from the Geek Feminism wiki, created by the Geek Feminism community.

The policy is based on the conference anti-harassment policy, and is the work of Annalee Flower Horne with assistance from Valerie Aurora, Alex Skud Bayley, Tim Chevalier, and Mary Gardiner.

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