Code of Conduct

Harassment

• 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.
• Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
• Deliberate misgendering or use of “dead” or rejected names.
• Making light of/making mocking comments about trigger warnings and content warnings.
• Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour.
• Physical contact and simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like “hug” or “backrub”) without consent or after a request to stop.
• Threats of violence.
• 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.
• Sending unwanted private messages, especially when requested not to.

Reporting

If you’re being harassed by a member of the Board Game Beans community, notice someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, you can contact Christian Alder at the following places:

Direct Message: Send Christian Alder a direct message at any time.
Email: support@boardgamebeans.com

This code of conduct applies to the Board Game Beans community, but if you are being harassed by a member of the Board Game Beans community outside any community property, We still want to know about it and will do everything in our power to help and protect you. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by the Board Game Beans community members seriously.

This includes harassment outside any community property and harassment that took place at any point in time. We reserve the right to exclude people from the Board Game Beans community based on their past behaviour, including behaviour outside the Board Game Beans community and behaviour towards people who are not in the Board Game Beans community.

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 the Board Game Beans community members or the general public. We will not name harassment victims without their affirmative consent.

Spam

The Board Game Beans community is a place for board game hobbyists and professionals to hang out, help one another, and share in the joy that is board games.

What’s Permitted

Sharing links and resources that you think the Board Game Beans community members would benefit from.

What’s Not Permitted

Please avoid posting repeatedly, or without context links to events, products, or services.

Refrain from approaching other members directly to self-promote.

Etiquette

The Board Game Beans community is a friendly space where all members should feel safe and welcome. To ensure this, we ask members to avoid the following:

• Sending unwarranted private messages to other members, Please ask permission first
• Clogging up a channel with non-stop messages that receive no response.
• Conducting yourself in a combative, aggressive, or passive-aggressive manner.
• Making jokes or mean-spirited comments at the expense of others.

AI Policy

At Board Game Beans, we pride ourselves in supporting human artists.

We have a no AI policy and will avoid promoting or playing board games that use AI generated imagery.

This also extends to our community spaces, and we kindly ask that AI generated imagery is not shared outside of the scope of commentary on our discord server (The Board Game Beans Café).

Any content that violates this will be removed, repeat offenders will be warned.

Enforcement

Members asked to stop or correct any behaviour violating this code of conduct are expected to cooperate immediately, whether asked by us (Christian Alder, Joana Vieira) or another member of the group.

If this doesn’t happen, then conflicts will be approached with the following steps:

• Repeat request
• If it continues, an official warning
• If it continues still, or is repeated later, then the person will be expelled from the Board Game Beans community.

On top of this, we may remove any offending messages, images, contributions, etc., as we deem necessary.

We reserve full rights to skip any of these steps, at our discretion, if the violation is considered to be a serious and/or immediate threat to the health and well-being of members of the community.

These include any threats, serious physical or verbal attacks, and other such behaviour that would be completely unacceptable in any social setting that puts our members at risk. In some cases, the participant may also be identified as a harasser to other Board Game Beans community members or the general public.

We will prioritise the well-being and comfort of the recipients of the violation over the comfort of the violator.

That said, we understand that the amygdala makes conflict resolution hard, and will approach conflicts with the initial assumption that all parties intend well, and will favour education over escalation whenever possible.

Attribution

This code of conduct follows the exemplary code of conduct from Piccalilli, which in turn is based on the Ethical Content Slack Group's code of conduct.