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title: Guidelines for Good Conduct in the Transit community
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Also read our [manifesto](manifesto.md).

Our Pledge
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In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as
contributors and participants wish that participation in our community and our
community will be a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age,
body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of
experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity
and orientation.

Our Standards
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Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment
include:

* Using welcoming and inclusive language
* Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
* Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
* Focusing on what is best for the community
* Showing empathy towards other community members

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or
advances
* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
* Public or private harassment
* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic
  address, without explicit permission
* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
  professional setting

Minors
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We recognize that, yes, children do come to Transit. This includes reading the
website and also joining the IRC channels.

Discussions about sex should, generally speaking, be limited to the
NSFW channel, if discussed on IRC.

This is especially true, regarding laws surrounding legal age of consent.
Any such discussion should be done in -nsfw.

We in Transit will not tolerate sexual abuse of any kind, regardless of the
ages of people involved. Survivors may have been so at a young age, below the
legal age of consent in their country, or above it. This section of our rules
is written precisely because we do not want any person to be triggered in our
chatrooms. We wish for Transit to be a safe space.

We also do not want to cast negative judgement or get involved in peoples
affairs.

Opinions about legal age of consent varies, as do the laws in many countries.
Generally, under 18s are to be considered minors, and unable to have informed
consent. This is a safe figure, compatible with most countries that members of
Transit may come from (in some countries, it's higher than this).

If interactions requiring a level of consent take place, make sure that the
person you're speaking to is actually providing consent. It's inevitable that,
over time, relations between people will develop. Use your best judgement; for
instance, if two people are both 16, and 16 is the legal age of consent in their
country, it's OK. This is not to say that the law is in any way a useful
guide.

If you are a victim of abuse, or know someone who is, in our community, then
please report it immediately. This is irrespective of age.

Drug talk (including alcohol/tobacco)
---------------------------------

We're not against drugs, generally. We believe in freedom of choice.

That being said, some people are recovering addicts of a given drug, and may
be triggered hearing about a given drug.

All drug talk should be moved to channels labelled NSFW.

Our Responsibilities
--------------------

Community participants are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable
behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in
response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.

Community participants have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or
reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions
that are not aligned to these conduct guidelines, or to ban temporarily or
permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate,
threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Scope
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These conduct guidelines apply both within community spaces and in public spaces
when an individual is representing the community or its community. Examples of
representing a project or community include using an official Transit e-mail
address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed
representative at an online or offline event. Representation of Transit may be
further defined and clarified by the leadership.

Specifically, in normal circumstances, the scope of these guidelines apply
directly to:

* The IRC channels (##transit and ##transit-nsfw on freenode)
* The notabug instance (at <https://notabug.org/vimuser/transit-website>),
  which also includes issue reports and site changes where the site is hosted
* The contents of any contributions to Transit, including commits to the Git
  repository and/or website.


Complaints
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All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response
that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The leadership
is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an
incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted
separately.

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be
reported by contacting one of the moderators privately via IRC private message
(see list below):

In the interest of maintaining our privacy, you must log onto the IRC channel
and contact anyone there who has operator privileges.

This command can tell you who has operator rights, and therefore a list of
people to go to when you wish to make a complaint:

    /msg chanserv access ##transit list

The list is the same in all IRC channels. You may use private message.

If you deviate from these guidelines, make sure that it is with good reason.
Treatment of each case will be handled pragmatically, on a case-by-case basis.

These are guidelines, and are not set in stone. We, as moderators, may choose
to enforce or not enforce these guidelines, in whole or in part, at our own
discretion. We are, after all, only human ourselves and we sometimes make
mistakes.

Attribution
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These guidelines are adapted from the
[Contributor Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org/), version 1.4,
available at <http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4>

The Contributor Covenant is made available under [Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International Public License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

External links
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[Contributor Covenant homepage](http://contributor-covenant.org)             --
[version that this is based on](http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/)
