Hey Quirks.
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Shirley (Community Ambassador) is working on writing up an updated Quirky Code of Conduct. She has graciously checked to see if we would want to and be willing to contribute our ideas.
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Please feel free to submit your thoughts and ideas here, or link to any forum threads or other sites that have some of this type of info already.
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By next Wed, I will compile and summarize everything to present to her.
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Thanks, all. Social Process Development FTW!
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Already written, from the Getting Started Blog Post:
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The Quirky forum is a space for the community to chat with each other. You might catch a staff member jumping in on the fun sometimes, but for the most part, that space is for you guys to get to know each other. There are some pretty strong personalities and opinions expressed. The team monitors but does not step in unless a post is outright abusive.
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Do…
Introduce yourself if you’re new
Be respectful to others
Feel free to debate points you don’t agree with
Ask for advice from seasoned Quirks
Take opinions with a grain of salt
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Don’t…
Be intimidated, the natives are loud but friendly
Take a debate of ideas personally
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The Quirky inbox is a place for community members to message each other privately. When you’re logged into your Quirky account, just click on your name (in the top left corner) for the drop down menu. From there, you can click on Inbox. It’s a great way to make friends with like-minded people! If you find a message offensive, click on “Report” to flag a message for the staff. You can also “Block” a user from messaging you privately (however, the person will still be able to participate on the site in public places).
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Do…
Get to know other Quirks
Share insights
Collaborate
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Don’t…
Spam people
Message people if they ask you not to

Do...
Send Matt a case of formula after you sign up ;-)

Back in the olden days there was this girl called Jess, and she spoke of things such as these... Ahh Jess I remember her well...

The most obvious code of conduct needed is, 'don't comment for the sole purpose of providing a link to gain traffic toward your own ideas.' Do: provide constructive comments. *Note: excessive complimentary comments spread indiscriminately across the entire board is viewed as un-constructive and self-interested spam (IMO).

take it outside
as my mother would say

Remember that what you post on the forums could be read by employers!

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Remember that what you post on the forum can be read by retailers that have scouts lurking in the community. Negativity can be detrimental to product sales.

Poetic Justice.

A code of conduct will be followed just as closely as the reddiquette on reddit. (It won't). This website needs to be designed to control the flow of user behavior and user conduct naturally.

I agree 100% on the code of conduct. Some thing are just too out of line and there needs to be order.

Codes of conduct simply do - not - work. I agree with the goals, but the method of using a code of conduct is inherently flawed. If people are able to act in a certain way, they will do so. Asking them nicely not to has precisely zero effect. If Quirky wants to control behavior, they must design the website such that the "path of least resistance" is the desired behavior.

I think that a code of conduct should be kept as simple as possible. It should basically outline guidelines that create a safe and respectful space for all of us. It should forbid any type of discriminatory conduct (comments, messaging, etc) which is sexist, racist, transphobic or homophobic and forbid any hurtful remarks that are based on ethnic origin, language, religion, age or ability/disability, sexuality, gender, etc. Simple and sweet. All the other little things, such as folks pimping on each other sites I see is a failure of the system/website/technology to provide a proper avenue or outlet for it's members to participate in a way that they wish to participate in. If the website for instances simply listed the items folks currently have in the run, a lot of the pimping would most likely fade out. And would fade out even further if a system was put in place that made it less desirable to vote swap. But, these are system failures not the sort of things that should be in a code of conduct.

@Dave. A code of conduct would work excellent if a moderator, such as Matt has the ability to send warnings, freeze accounts for periods of time or ban users.

Have a flagging system