Forum guidelines and terms of service, Open Source Design by-laws and code of conduct

https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/guidelines and https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/faq are synonymous.

Staff members may set a good example by wearing the badge that is gained through complete, non-rushed reading of the guidelines.

At the foot, I added:

  • Open Source Design by-laws and code of conduct

– simple links. That addition aside, I kept edits to a minimum.

If we deeply (or over-) analyse the generic guidelines e.g. https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines then we might find something in conflict with the code of conduct … however, my experience with the generic lines is that they complement and reinforce the ‘be excellent to each other’ essence of the code. Recommended reading:

Changes to generic guidelines, by Discourse

An example of a change in response to a reasonable request:

Result:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/63c8b23690f5dc64bd8951d0be78e4ea8fa3d0c8#diff-aeb8651199334c1cb831e884ff85773aR2764