We base our community rules on our Code of Conduct. If you have any questions on the mindset behind our rules, that would be a good place to start looking!

We usually provide an abridged version of these rules directly within our community spaces. If the shortened version appears to conflict with the rules written below, this document takes priority, and you should consider it to be the primary source of truth.

We reserve the right to pre-emptively deny or restrict access to our community spaces to users who violate our rules elsewhere, even if those violations happen in completely unrelated spaces. While this may seem drastic, we do this to better protect the minorities in our spaces, who're often the target of political violence or harassment campaigns.

As a community, we must follow the rules and terms set out by the platforms we use. These rules will differ between each platform, and we recommend making yourself familiar with them.

• Discord: Terms of Service and Community Guidelines
• GitHub: Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policies

We understand that not everyone speaks English and that it can be a challenging language to get used to if you don't speak it natively. However, English is the common language in our community spaces, which means we can't moderate content written in other languages. For that reason, we'd appreciate it if you could try to speak English in our spaces.

If another community member speaks your native language, and they don't mind translating for you, feel free to accept their help. Otherwise, you can use translation tools like Kagi Translate, Google Translate, or DeepL if you need to.

We don't tolerate users that make fun of others for their level of English, and we'll moderate any harassment or bullying.

All tools and projects shared or worked on in our community spaces must be legal, legitimate, appropriate, and ethical. For example, don't promote or ask for help with any of the following:

• Projects or code built around a generative AI tool, such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Midjourney, or Synthesia.
  • This doesn't include light, ethical generative AI tools, such as the individual line completion feature bundled with IntelliJ IDEA.

• Projects or code designed to violate the terms of service for any platform.
  • This doesn't include anything that explicitly falls under progressive activism, but it must be clear and obvious.

• Projects or code built around NFTs or cryptocurrencies.
• Projects or code designed to manipulate, defraud, misinform, financially disadvantage, spam, or scam others.
• Projects or code that otherwise violate Rule 1.

We reserve the right to update this list as trends change. However, this list simply contains examples, and we reserve the right to moderate and remove anything we feel doesn't meet our standards.

Rephasing is a progressive, collaborative organisation, and it is important everyone respects each other's differences and accounts for others' accessibility needs. To give specific examples:

• We absolutely will not tolerate any bigotry — including, but not limited to, racism, antisemitism, body-shaming, ableism, sexism, anti-feminism, classism, transphobia, pluralphobia (including discrimination towards “endogenic” systems), and queerphobia.
  • We don't believe in reverse-isms, including “reverse racism” and “heterophobia”. “Cis” isn't a slur, and minorities of colour protecting themselves from the actions of the white majority are not racist.
  • Our definition of bigotry includes expressions of support for fascists and fascism, both historical and modern. This is true regardless of the context — and regardless of whether you pose it as “differing views” or “just an opinion”.
    • Yes, 2025's self-crowned King of America, his lackeys, and the President of Twitter count.

• Keep all discussions and content “safe for work” — sexual content and behaviour, gore, violence and abuse content have no place in our community spaces, except:
  • Discussions about newsworthy events, at our discretion, and limited to dedicated channels and categories.
  • Educational content and discussions, at our discretion.
  • Projects that support sex workers and their content, when posted in relevant showcase channels and spaces, and when correctly tagged.

• There's no room in our community spaces for blackmail, piracy, or any other manipulative or illegal behaviour.
• Don't post images, emotes, videos, or other media with fast-moving animations or flashing colours, or anything else likely to be a problem for photosensitive users.
• Respect any accessibility tools we provide, and the community members who use them. For example:
  • Discord: PluralKit, meant for plural systems, or as a mental health tool.
• Don't use any of our community's content to train AI models.
• Remember that all staff members are imperfect entities — and understand that, while we can and do make mistakes, we're all trying to do what we feel is best for everyone.

You should always report any violations of this rule to our staff team. We appreciate your reports, and we encourage our community remembers to talk with us if they have any concerns.

For more information on how to make a report and how we handle your reports, see the reporting section below.

If we want to have productive and respectful discussions, then everyone must respect our community spaces. To give more specific examples:

• Everyone needs to pull together to help keep our community spaces healthy, regardless of whether they're on the staff team. While this largely means following our rules and interacting authentically, it also means that we expect our community members to report any rule violations they run into, rather than joining in or ignoring issues.

• Do not spam our community spaces. This includes:
  • Unsolicited advertising, including promoting your projects outside channels or spaces designed for that.
  • Posting or dumping memes into off-topic channels or spaces without any intent or relevance to discussion.
  • Pinging or mentioning community members as a joke or to harass them.
  • Taking over channels or spaces with personal grievances, or other issues best dealt with privately.

• Read through any relevant posting guidelines, including channel topics and category descriptions, and adhere to them. While discussions sometimes tend to drift off-topic, we appreciate it when users do their best to keep things relevant to the channel or space they're using.

• Do not attack, exploit, or otherwise technically hinder our spaces or work. If you find a security or moderation exploit, or a loophole in our rules, report them instead of using them. This also includes rules-lawyering, gaming the system, and malicious compliance.
  • If you feel inclined towards these tactics, please give us feedback and let us know where we went wrong instead.