Brisbane Makerspace's (BMS) online discussion resources are governed by the Code of Conduct as well as the following guidelines to ensure that it remains a safe and effective forum for conversations related to making and our organisational goals.
Violation of the Code of Conduct are grounds for removing contributions or curtailing your contribution privileges on the resource.
These Guidelines are followed by all of BMS’s Moderators. Any member can contribute to keeping discourse civil by flagging/Reporting content that violate these guidelines.
Moderation Guidelines:
Flagged/reported content will be reviewed according to the following guidelines.
- Personal Attacks: While we encourage civilized discourse and disagreement we require that you criticize things, not people. Criticism of individual people will be flagged and removed.
- Disruptive behaviour: Sustained disruption of forum conversation will not be tolerated. This includes: trolling, heckling, or promoting hostility.
- Derogatory Language: Any language that is harmful or hurtful to a protected group, or that is directly or indirectly discriminatory.
- Sexual Content: Any posts that contain sexual content or link to third party sites with sexual content.
- Influencing Unacceptable Behaviour: Any behaviour that insights violence, personal attacks or other behaviour that violates our Code of Conduct.
- Sensitive Information: Don’t post any sensitive information. Moderators will remove personal information from posts to protect your privacy.
- Promotional content: If it contains or links to a third party site that is trying to sell something not related to a member or project.
- Nonsensical/Non-human: Unrelated, bot-created, jibberish.
- Duplicate Content: Do not repost the same thing multiple times, duplicate posts or excessively push a post to get to the top of the list.
- Content that has nothing to do with BMS or a member's project may be removed.