Fix Planet Club is committed to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of users in any form. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be removed from these activities and channels at the discretion of the Fix Planet Club team.
Some Fix Planet Club activities may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to users in the event or channel description.
All participants of our community are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.
Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
- Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion or belief.
- Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, marriage, parenting, drugs, and employment.
- Deliberate misgendering or use of 'dead' or rejected names.
- Sharing/using NSFW/sexual images, language or behaviour in any spaces.
- Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop.
- Threats of violence.
- Incitement of violence towards any individual or group, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
- Deliberate intimidation.
- Stalking or following.
- Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
- Sustained disruption of discussion.
- Unwelcome sexual attention.
- Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others.
- Continued one-on-one communication after any request(s) to cease.
- Deliberate "outing" of any aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
- Publication of non-harassing private communication.
- Patronising language. Avoid referring to adults as 'girls' or 'boys'.
Additionally, and more specifically to our sector, the following behaviours are unwelcome:
- No feigned surprise. When someone says "I don’t know what X is", it's not appropriate to respond with "You don't know what X is?!" or "I can't believe you don't know what X is!".
- No well-actuallys. These are the pedantic corrections that don't make a difference to the conversation that's happening.
- No rabid fandom or flame wars. Just because Programming Language X has feature Y doesn't mean everyone who doesn't use it is making the biggest mistake of their lives.
Fix Planet Club prioritises marginalised people's safety over privileged people's comfort. The Fix Planet Club team reserves the right not to act on complaints regarding:
- 'Reverse'-isms, including 'reverse racism,' 'reverse sexism,' and 'cisphobia'.
- Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as "leave me alone," "go away," or "I’m not discussing this with you."
- Communicating in a 'tone' you don’t find congenial.
- Criticising racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behaviour or assumptions.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please email us at [email protected]. Emails to this address will be received by Fix Planet Club's trustees. After receiving the complaint somebody will be in touch to discuss further and take a record of your account. We will respond as promptly as we can. If other parties need to become involved in the process as your complaint progresses, we'll work with you to ensure that you're comfortable and that we have your consent to share information.
This code of conduct applies to Fix Planet Club activities, but if you are being harassed by a user within or in the social orbit of Fix Planet Club, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by Fix Planet Clubrs seriously.
This includes:
- Harassment outside official channels.
- Harassment that took place at any point in time.
The Fix Planet Club team reserves the right to exclude people from Fix Planet Club activities based on their past behaviour, including behaviour outside Fix Planet Club, and behaviour towards people who are not Fix Planet Club community members.
In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.
We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of Fix Planet Club tenants or the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.
Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behaviour, the Fix Planet Club team may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all Fix Planet Club community events and channels, and identification of the participant as a harasser to other Fix Planet Club community members or the general public, and ending the funding of any applicant found to be breaking these rules.