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Historians Social has a zero-tolerance policy for racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other forms of discriminatory and bigoted conduct.
Sexually graphic and violent imagery without specific historical context and discussion is not permitted on historians.social.
Harassment of other Fediverse users is not permitted on historians.social.
Harmful and false content (for example, “5G causes coronavirus” or “vaccines cause autism”) is not allowed, will be removed, and may result in an account suspension.
Sexual harassment is an instant ban.
Transphobic content is an instant ban.
We reserve the right to suspend your account at any time.
We may update this document from time to time for reasons including:
In the event of any changes to this policy, we will notify you via an announcement posted through the Mastodon administration system.
Any changes to the Code of Conduct come into force immediately.
Historians.social is a community run by humans for humans. All social media struggles with moderation. Moderators and site admins will use their best judgment to enforce these rules and policies fairly to create an open and safe space for frank and vigorous exchange.
Historians.social is open to all historians, history educators, history practitioners, museums, history organizations, people working in history-adjacent fields, people interested in history, history-related organizations, friends, and allies. Content posted on historians.social need not be entirely, or even majority, history-related.
The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
Nudity that has not been: * Appropriately tagged, and * Masked behind a Content Warning.
The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline and may be removed entirely:
The following types of content will be removed and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
Sexism or the advocation of sexism,
Content harmful to the public good, examples including:
Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism.
The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in permanent revocation of access to the service:
Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, impede other users from utilizing the service, degrade the performance of the service, or incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service and/or referral to the appropriate law enforcement agency, at our discretion.
Harassment includes the following behaviors:
Historians.social will be attentive to and careful with the safety of marginalized people. As a result, we will not act on complaints regarding, but not limited to:
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
If you are being harassed by a user of historians.social or notice someone else is being harassed, please report using the ‘Report’ feature in the application.
This Code of Conduct applies to historians.social, but if you are being harassed by a user of historians.social outside of the Service, we still want to know about it.
We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by historians.social members seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and harassment that took place at any point in time. Historians.social moderators reserve the right to exclude people from historians social based on their past behavior, including behavior outside of historians.social spaces and behavior towards people who are not users of historians.social.
Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.
These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.
We used and adapted the Code of Conduct of cloudisland.nz with permission. Rules based on hachyderm.io.
We aim to review new account requests every 2-4 hours throughout the day but are likely to do less review during the United States overnight.
We aim to review all content reports ASAP, but ask that you give us at least 24 hours to respond, particularly overnight.