Elm community spaces are welcoming environments where everyone can seek help and discussion on any Elm-related topic. To ensure that our community remains as friendly as it currently is, this Code of Conduct documents our rules, values, and expectations.
The members and moderators of Elm community spaces are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexuality, or similar personal characteristic. We do not tolerate harassment or abuse in any form.
As participants of this community we pledge to:
- Be friendly, welcoming and inclusive.
- Be helpful and patient.
- Do not intentionally post inaccurate, misleading, or deceptive technical information.
- Do not ridicule someone's ignorance or misunderstanding.
- Be respectful and considerate.
- People have different levels of experience programming, and with many types of languages. Someone who struggles with Elm might have 15 years of enterprise Java experience. Making assumptions about someone's background is usually harmful.
- Not everyone speaks English natively. If you can understand the intent, avoid remarking on the grammar.
- Avoid negative behaviour.
- Derailing a conversation: Chat conversations can move quickly and unpredictably. But, do not actively seek to prevent a conversation from occurring (unless the conversation itself violates this Code).
- Unconstructive criticism: Do not merely decry the current state of affairs. Offer suggestions as to how things may be improved.
- Snarking: pithy, insulting, or sniping comments.
- Making political posts, including expressions of political preference, which tend to turn the environment sour very quickly. This is a place for people to find help and answers, not rancor and disagreement.
- Brief and common hostile behaviors that cumulatively communicate that a certain person or group is unwelcome.
Everyone can make a valuable contribution to this community. We may not always agree, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It's important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one.
Sometimes misunderstandings and conflicts are inevitable, but resist the urge to be defensive or assign blame. Try not to take offense where no offense was intended. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Even if the intent was to provoke, do not rise to it.
We are committed to making participation in this community a harassment-free experience for everyone. As such moderators have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments and other assets that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any participant for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
Instances of abusive, harassing, threatening, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting the community admin team as found here. Do not post about the issue publicly or try to rally sentiment against a particular individual or group. Moderators are obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident.
This Code of Conduct is adapted from