The following are a list of discouraged behaviours established to offer some guideposts of how to best achieve the Missions laid out in our Code of Conduct. These in severity from vary from things that are almost never acceptable, to things that may be perfectly acceptable under certain circumstances, so please don’t treat them as hard rules.
From most to least unacceptable:
- Threatening someone
- Harassment
- Discriminating on the basis of sex, gender identity, intelligence, sexuality, socio-economic status, race, nationality, age, (dis)ability or physical features.
- Trolling (from Wikipedia: In Internet slang, a troll (/troʊl, trɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting quarrels or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal, on-topic discussion, often for the troll’s amusement)
- Spamming unsolicited advertisements
- Asserting intellectual or social superiority over another
- Minimalising the suffering of others (ie. calling someone too sensitive when they’re calling out something that upsets them. Be empathetic!)
- Publicly insulting members or Kazamatsuri as a whole, spreading lies and unverified rumors about them, and posting unconstructive criticism about them
- Claiming the Kazamatsuri brand without the consensus of the community
- Posting pornography, or anything obviously pornographic in nature
- Posting violent imagery
- Glorifying or promoting self-harm/suicide, even as a joke
- Use of pejoratives and slurs, including ‘triggered’ (the adjective meaning made angry/uncomfortable) and ‘trap’ (concept of men dressing as women) (We’ll keep this updated with the less obvious ones)
- Disputing the non-harmful religious, spiritual or philosophical beliefs of another
- Continuing discussion of a topic that is making people uncomfortable in a public space - particularly Discord. (Oak’s words echoed: There’s a time and place for everything…)
- Excessive self-deprecation
- Using multiple accounts
- Promoting piracy on the forum
- Promoting or expressing support of beliefs and sentiments (political or religious or otherwise) which directly clash with our Missions. We are not impartial to all beliefs, and we will refuse a platform for unempathetic sentiments to spread on Kazamatsuri.
- Plagiarism, and posting the work of others without linking to / crediting the original author
- Posting untagged spoilers
- Presenting theories or unverified rumors as fact
- Refusing to accept the opinions of others as their opinions
- Bringing up inflammatory real-world political topics in public space
- Posting in non-English languages in public without a translation
- Not using a discord username or nickname that can be traced back to your forum identity
- Excessive use of emoji, emoticons, and SMS language
- Posting multiple times a row in a thread in a short span of time (use quotes to reply to multiple people!)
- Posting without an avatar
