+ Code of Conduct
+STL Tech is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We + do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
+This code of conduct applies to all STL Tech spaces, including the STL Tech + Slack and Github Repositories, both online and off. Anyone who violates this + code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the + discretion of the the incident response team.
+Please note that STL Tech spaces are not public spaces and that interpretation of + this Code of Conduct in matters of sanctioning or expelling participants in violation of same is at + the sole discretion of the incident response team.
+Some STL Tech spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made + clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and + abiding by these rules.
+Harassment includes:
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- 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. Note that “offensive” includes + questioning the person’s right to equal treatment. +
- Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, + including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment. +
- Concern trolling. +
- Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names. +
- Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they’re not + appropriate. +
- Gratuitous or off-topic discussions of violence or violent behavior in this + space. +
- Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like
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*hug*or*backrub*) without consent or after a request to stop. +
+ - Threats of violence towards any individual, group, or society at large. +
- Incitement of violence towards any individual, 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 requests 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. +
- Complaining of ‘reverse‘ -isms (‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’, ‘cisphobia’, etc), or + otherwise attempting to legitimize the same as discrimination or oppression, will not be + tolerated under any circumstances +
STL Tech prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s + comfort. the incident response team will not act on complaints regarding:
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- ‘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 +
- Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or + assumptions +
Reporting
+If you are being harassed by a member of STL Tech, notice that someone else is + being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the the incident + response team (contact information below). If the person who is harassing you is + on the team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We will + respond as promptly as we can.
+This code of conduct applies to STL Tech spaces, but if you are being harassed + by a member of STL Tech outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We + will take all good-faith reports of harassment by STL Tech members, especially + the leadership team, seriously. This includes harassment outside our spaces and + harassment that took place at any point in time. The abuse team reserves the + right to exclude people from STL Tech based on their past behavior, including + behavior outside STL Tech spaces and behavior towards people who are not in STL + Tech.
+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 STL Tech members or the + general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative + consent.
+Consequences
+Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply + immediately.
+If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the incident response team may + take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all + STL Tech spaces and identification of the participant as a harasser to other STL + Tech members or the general public.
+Source
+This anti-harassment policy is based on the + example policy from the Geek + Feminism wiki, + created by the Geek Feminism community. +
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