Community Guidelines
These are not hard and fast rules. They are guidelines to aid human judgment and keep this a friendly place for public discussion. [1]
Improve the Discussion
Create and discover conversations that are already happening. Spend time browsing the topics, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests.
Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.
Participate Freely
Influence the future of the Psyche Network and Nous Research by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.
Identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, watching, muting and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.
Flag Problems
Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. With your watchful eye, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.
When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. Replying encourages bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.
Moderators reserve the right to remove bad actors. Moderators do not preview new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.
Be Civil
Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:
- Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
- Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
- Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
- Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.
This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.
Keep It Tidy
Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:
- Don’t start a topic in the wrong category; please read the category definitions.
- Don’t post no-content replies.
Keep it Legal
This shouldn’t have to be a guideline as this should go without saying but don’t break the law.
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The phrase “These are not hard and fast rules. They are guidelines to aid human judgment and keep this a friendly place for public discussion” means that the community guidelines provided are not strict, inflexible rules but rather suggestions and principles to help users make good decisions and maintain a welcoming environment for open dialogue and debate. The guidelines are meant to be interpreted and applied with common sense and fairness, allowing for some flexibility while still promoting respectful and constructive discussions. (Explanation by AI) ↩︎