Code of Conduct

to be updated

Table of Contents

• Values

  • Collaboration

  • Learning

• Athens Discord

  • Inviting

  • Kicking and Banning

  • Auto-Moderation

  • Pruning

  • Contributor Channels

• Discord Official

  • Discord Guidelines

  • Discord Terms of Service

  • Discord Privacy Policy

If you disagree with Athens's values, Athens's Discord guidelines, or the official Discord policies, you have two options: Voice or Exit.

Values

Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

— Epictetus

Athens is not just a product. Athens is a community for collaboration and learning.

When participating in the Athens community, you are agreeing to embody Athens's values. But values and communities become real through actions, not words. As Athens matures, we will add epics and hero's journeys that exemplify Athens's values to this page.

Collaboration

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

— Seneca

Learning

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

— Plato

Athens Discord

Inviting

Athenians are free to invite others to the Athens Discord, but the Core Team and Guardians reserve the right to revoke this permission.

This would be necessary in case there were growing pains from premature scaling or in the case of bad actors trying to disrupt the Athens Discord with spambots.

This is also why invites expire after 24 hours by default.

Kicking and Banning

If there are spambots or members severely transgressing the Athens values and guidelines, it is the responsibility of Guardians and Core Team members to kick or ban these bad actors.

If it is unclear why the kick or ban was necessary, a DM will be sent to follow-up on this event and clarify the rationale.

Kicking removes the user from the server. The user can be re-invited and then rejoin.

Banning is a permanent removal from the server. Particularly effective for spambots.

Auto-Moderation

Probot is used for auto-moderation.

It warns members in the following cases:

• Emoji spam

• Duplicated text

• Bad words

• Spammed caps (70% > caps)

• Mass mention (@everyone)

It warns members and deletes messages in the following cases:

• Spam (5 messages / 5 sec)

Pruning

Collaboration implies participation. Members of the Discord who do not message after a certain number of days are "pruned" and will need to be re-invited to rejoin the Discord.

Contributor Channels

In the "Athens (Product)" section, we have set up specific channels for those who have made non-trivial contributions to engineering and/or design. This way, communications between contributors can flow freely, while still allowing aspiring contributors to gain invaluable context about how and why certain decisions are made. More context about this change in our Discord can be found here.

Discord Official

Discord Guidelines

You agree to the official Discord Guidelines while using Discord. Evidence of the following may result in the termination of your account from the Discord platform:

• harassment

• spam

• pornography of minors

• violation of rights

• promotion of self-harm or suicide

• animal cruelty

• threatening to harm others

• distributing viruses

• shaming or degrading others

• attempting to steal

• doing anything illegal

Discord Terms of Service

You agree to the official Discord Terms of Service while using Discord.

As Athens is an open-source technology project, one section worth emphasizing is the section on intellectual property.

As an example, you agree not to use the Service in order to:

violate the contractual, personal, intellectual property or other rights of any party including using, uploading, transmitting, distributing, or otherwise making available any information made available through the Service in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other right of any party (including rights of privacy or publicity)

If you believe your intellectual property rights have been violated, please email the Athens team immediately at [e-mail].

Discord Privacy Policy

You agree to the official Discord Privacy Policy while using Discord.

Discord collects the following information:

• information you provide, which includes but is not limited to: username, email address, messages, images, transient VOIP data, or other content sent via chat

• IP address, device ID, and your activities within the Services

• information through other Services such as Twitter and Facebook, if connected

• information on cookies