BEHAVIOR GUIDELINES
• Golden Rule
Treat others with respect. Both those in our chats, as well as those outside the chat.
• Be Positive
Keep it uplifting and positive, including in reference to your own artwork and in critiquing of other's works.
• No Spam
Don't spam or hijack discussions. Keep requests for art help, commission openings and other things to appropriate channels.
• No Hate
Discussions or terms that brings hateful focus on any group for their race, gender, religion or background are not allowed.
• Offsite Contact
Users marked as 'Do not DM' should never be contacted in private. Users with no DM tags set should be treated as marked 'Do not DM' by default. Always check a users tags before contacting them over DM as users can update these and may change how they feel about certain contact.ARTWORK/CONTENT GUIDELINES
• Stay SFW
Keep it work safe. Anything that would fit in a PG13 movie is okay to post.
• Stay Within The Law
Discussions or depictions of activities, or substances that are currently classified as illegal are not allowed even if it falls within the work safe rating.
• CW & Spoilers
Artistic nudity, heavy gore or animated images with flashing lights need to be marked as spoilers and include a CW tag.
• Share The Source
When sharing art that isn't created by you, include credit when available and help ID works that are unknown.
• Clean Up
Inactive streams and closed commission openings should be removed after they are no longer in use.WARNINGS AND BANS
Warnings may be given by staff in the case a user is doing the following:
• Consistent and deliberate posting of off topic comments in inappropriate channels.
• Begging, whining or otherwise consistent negative interactions with other users.Bans will be applied for the following actions, and will be treated with zero tolerance:
• Contacting users in private that do not wish to be contacted, or contacting users for reasons other than the ones they have set as okay.
• Threatening harm to another user.
• Using posts and interactions from this chat to harass, shame or negatively target users offsite.
• Reposting artwork from the chat without the creator's permission.

Artist Hub Applications

Hubs are personal channels run by a creator, or small group of creators to share and discuss their work in a more personalized space.Anyone applying needs to agree to and acknowledge the following:

  • They are currently 18 years of age or older

  • Are willing and able to moderate their channel under the same rules as the main chat

  • Interact positively with your followers

FAQ• When should I contact an Admin?Admin are tagged @Overfiend and should be contacted in regards to issues with the settings or permissions of the chat. Bots or spam floods. If someone is contacting you in private. Issues that need to be discussed in private.• When should I contact a Moderator?Moderators are tagged @MODacore and should be contacted in regards to discussions or art posts that break rules.• I'm not sure where I should post this thing I want to share or discuss?Use your best judgement, and if you really can't pick an area, feel free to ask in the General Chat.

Mod Jobs•Follow and enforce the rules.
Incidents are to be handled on a case-by-case basis; use your best judgement as whether the transgression was an honest mistake or intentionally disruptive. Generally a warning can be given for a first offense unless it's blatant trolling, in which case a ban is appropriate. Users who repeatedly make mistakes, honest or otherwise, may need to be specifically addressed. Again, use your best judgement as mods as to the severity of the incident; if you're unsure, feel free to ask other mods for input.•Peer Mediation
If two or more users are having a conversation that gets heated or becomes an argument, intervene and request they take it to DMs. If they refuse, further action (read: a timeout initially, and a ban if it continues after that) can be taken as necessary.•Moderating Tags/Spoilers
If content falls into a category that should be tagged and spoilered and a user does not tag/spoil appropriately, the offending content should be removed and the poster should be asked to repost it correctly. If they refuse and/or intentionally repost the image immediately without tagging/spoilering, a timeout would be appropriate with a ban being considered for future offenses.•Availability
All staff and mods are volunteers and have jobs/lives outside of the server, but we ask that mods turn on notifications for their mod roles and try to keep an eye on things. If you are going to be unavailable for a week or more, please give a heads up in the mod channel.•Voting
From time to time, mods will be asked to vote on site-related matters; most of the time this will be related to Artist Hubs and content tags. In both cases, you'll be asked to vote either yes or no (or abstain) on the topic at hand and provide a short explanation or blurb of your thoughts/reasons for your vote.For content tags, this will be a simple matter of whether a category should be tagged/spoilered; basically, this is a question of "should this type of content have a content warning".For Artist Hubs, the process is slightly more involved. Applications for Artist Hubs will be opened in rounds; these rounds will be scheduled ahead of time to line up with everybody's availability to review applications.
A round will open for a week at a time, with data to be compiled after the round closes and posted here for review.
Mods will have roughly 5 days to review the applications and vote yes or no (or abstain) on each application. At the end of the voting period, votes will be tallied and applicants will be approved (or not) for a Hub accordingly. If a mod disagrees with the outcome, it can be discussed here.