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-### Don't be a dick
+### Conduct yourselves in a respectful, mature, and friendly manner
+This one is intentionally vague for a reason, and we expect people to police themselves accordingly. Two simple tests one can use to evaluate a comment are:
-There's a lot of things that could fall under this umbrella but what we mean should hopefully be pretty obvious:
+ * “Is what I am about to say going to have a decent chance of genuinely offending someone in a public setting?”
+ * “Did I just say something that made the teamspeak channel go utterly silent in shock?”
+We would prefer one ask oneself these questions before making some questionable remark, but we can and will enforce this rule after the fact from now on. Remember: *it is far easier for you to simply not say something awful, than it is for someone else to not find that thing awful after you’ve said it*.
-Don't be a dick towards others, don't make derogatory comments, act in a mature and respectful manner, etc.
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-### Don't be disruptive
+### During Saturday sessions and briefings, there's a lot of moving parts. Please be patient while those organizing things are trying to do their jobs. Disruptions will not be tolerated
+The community is already very good about this, so this is merely a formal declaration of the rule. Examples include:
-During Saturday sessions and briefings, there's a lot of moving parts. Please be patient while those organizing things get everything setup.
+ * Text chat during briefings is fine as long as it doesn’t become a distraction.
+ * Idle or unrelated chatter during sessions is equally fine as long as it isn’t disrupting efforts to organize/direct/run/etc. a session.
-Other disruptions such as shooting or throwing grenades at the start or end of a session, lone wolfing, etc. are also not tolerated.
+Counter examples that would be considered disruptive:
-Anyone who behaves in a way disruptive to the experiences of other players can expect to be removed from the session.
+ * Talking over someone trying to give a briefing or using text chat to do the same.
+ * “Derp” or distracting behaviour in session when people in leadership roles are trying to organize/direct/etc.
+ * “Derp” activities at the end of a session: chucking grenades, shooting teammates, etc.
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-### Heated debates
+### You're free to have a hearty debate about whatever you like, once it becomes disruptive we ask that it be taken elsewhere
-You're free to have a hearty debate about whatever you like. However once it becomes actively disruptive in Discord, Teamspeak or anywhere else we'd like you to take it somewhere else such as PM.
+An obvious example here is politics. If you can discuss something like reasonable adults that’s fine, but if it can’t stay reasonable we expect it to stop or be taken elsewhere. For reference on what might be considered “reasonable”, see the first Code of Conduct rule
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