Rules section

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• Testcases
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Here's a preliminary set of Rules and Guidelines

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The #css channel exists to help people authoring or developing web sites. #css and the staff are committed to providing a safe, helpful environment to ask questions about CSS and web development.

Everyone must abide by the Rules of Conduct at all times. Additionally, the Channel Guidelines and Topic can help you get the help you need faster.

Rules Of Conduct

The Reasonable Person Principle applies.

• Everyone will be reasonable.
• Everyone expects everyone else to be reasonable.
• No one is special.
• Do not be offended if someone suggests you are not being reasonable.

Additionally, please take note of the following:

• Be considerate, respectful, and collaborative.
• Alert the staff if you notice a dangerous situation or someone in distress.

Intimidating, harassing, abusive, discriminatory, derogatory, or demeaning conduct are among the types of unreasonable behaviors deemed to be unacceptable.

Harassing behavior includes, but is not limited to: offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability; inappropriate use of sexual images or language; deliberate intimidation, stalking or following; sustained disruption of channel activity; unwelcome sexual attention; ignore and/or ban evasion.

Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately. Everyone is expected to follow the rules.

If an individual engages in unacceptable behavior, the ops may take any action they deem appropriate. Initial violations or violations believed be unintentional, if not repeated, will likely only result in warnings. Repeated violations or intentional harassment will be meet with increasingly severe responses.

If someone is breaking the rules...

If someone is breaking the rules, please ask them nicely to stop, once, and point them here. If they continue to break the rules, please contact a chanop.

Breaking the rules while trying to help enforce the rules is still breaking the rules. Remember the Reasonable Person Principle.

Channel Guidelines and Topic

The #css channel is for discussing CSS with people who are writing CSS. If you have a different problem, here are some other places where you will get better help:

• CSS libraries
  • We can help, but you might get better help on a dedicated channel
  • Bootstrap - ##bootstrap
• JavaScript - ##javascript on Freenode
  • If your question involves clicking on something
  • JQuery - #jquery on Freenode
  • AngularJS - #angularjs on Freenode
  • Node.js - #node.js
• HTML - #html and #html5 on Freenode
  • If you need help deciding which markup tags to use
• PHP - ##php on Freenode
  • If your code sample has <?php
  • Wordpress - #wordpress
• Design - ##design on Freenode
  • If you want feedback on visuals
• Freelance - #css-lance on Freenode
  • If you are looking to hire or be hired

If you are directed to another channel, please try there before asking in #css again. Someone may still help from #css. Off-topic chatter is not against the rules.

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I think there should be another page for the rest of that. Something like "How to get the most out of #css". We should try to focus on encouraging positive behavior and leave the describing negative behavior to the rules. There's a whole middle bit between "against the rules" and "desired behavior" that we might describe, but it seems fluid and subjective.

[AMcBain]

Already suggested in CSS, but there's also a ##bootstrap channel we can add to the last section.

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Additional line to #css-lance: "If you're in a hurry, you probably want to spend money"

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Guidelines or "How to be effective"? "Don't cross-post"

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the rules have been posted, feel free to make changes directly to the md file moving forward if we all agree on things

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Since it's live, any new issues can be new issues.