Administration, moderation, and federation policy for GeekRoom.Tech

This post aims to lay out the rules and principles for how administrators, moderators, and users of GeekRoom.Tech should behave while use the GeekRoom.Tech name, address, and reputation. This is a set of formal rules that all users, admins, and mods must abide by.

Instance rules

This instance (like most others) has a set of rules which are always visible on the sidebar of the front page. All users of this instance are expected to follow these rules in all of their activities, including:

• Community moderation
• Posting
• Commenting

⚠️ Our rules apply even when you’re posting in a community on another instance. For example, this means that you’re not allowed to post advertisement spam using your GeekRoom.Tech account on any other instance (even if that other instance has no rules).

Each community hosted on GeekRoom.Tech is free to have additional rules in addition to our instance wide rules, but instance rules supercede any community rules and must always be enforced.

Responsibilities

Admins

• Ensure that there are no communities on GeekRoom.Tech which break GeekRoom.Tech rules
• Ban GeekRoom.Tech users who break our rules on other instances
• Ban users who consistently break rules across multiple communities
• Purge illegal content from GeekRoom.Tech

Moderators

• Ensure that posts and comments in their communities don’t break rules
• Ban users from their communities for consistently breaking rules
• Ensure that they only provide accurate and clear reasons for mod actions

Users

• Downvote low quality content
• Report rule violations
• Behave in a respectable manner

⚠️ Admins are not responsible for censoring content from other instances.

In exceptional cases (illegal or extremely disturbing content), admins will step in and purge the content from GeekRoom.Tech servers, but in general it is understood that our instance rules do not apply to external users on other instances, and censoring and curating external instances for our users is not a general goal for GeekRoom.Tech admins.

Federation Policy

You can see our federation policy here.

What should I do if I see content I don’t like on another instance?

• If it’s low quality content, you should always down vote ⬇️
• If you think it breaks local rules for the community or instance, then report it and local admins/mods will deal with it
  • Your reports will also reach GeekRoom.Tech admins, so if it’s about illegal content, then we can purge it from GeekRoom.Tech servers
• If it’s just some user being a prick, then you can block that specific user (GeekRoom.Tech admins will not take action in case of external users posting on external communities)
• If it’s a community dedicated to being awful in some way, then you can block that specific community