Rules and Social Etiquette Guidelines

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Site Rules

Terms of Membership

1. You must be an adult. Members must be 18 years of age or older. By joining, you confirm you meet this requirement; failure to do so will result in immediate removal.
   
   
2. Your content is your own. foxy.art makes no claim over anything you create or host on or off the foxy.art domain as well as on or off-line. You are solely responsible for it.
   
   
3. Intellectual Property & Attribution. Respect the intellectual property of others. Do not post work you do not own or have explicit permission to share. Always provide proper credit when sharing inspiration or references.
   
   
4. Constructive Feedback Only. When critiquing another member's work, keep comments constructive and respectful. Focus on the art and techniques rather than making personal attacks or disparaging remarks.
   
   
5. No Unsolicited Promotion. Keep the community focused on artistic discussion. Do not use the forum for unsolicited advertising, self-promotion, or "spamming" your own commission links in threads where it is not requested.
   
   
6. Privacy & Doxing. Respect the privacy of all members. Do not share personal information about others (doxing), including real names, physical addresses, or private contact details, without their explicit consent.
   
   
7. Don't be a vector for harm. Group resources may not be used to distribute malware, conduct phishing, send spam, or host illegal content of any kind. Violations will result in immediate removal from the group.
   
   
8. No AI-generated art. Any artwork you post online must be free of "AI" image generation, which includes Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, et cetera, as well as "AI" text generation, which includes ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs. Your work, without exception, must be made by your hand (digitally or physically).
   
   
9. The social etiquette guidelines apply everywhere. Not just in foxy.art community spaces; we hold our members to these standards as a general baseline for how they conduct themselves online.
   
   
10. Membership can be revoked. The admin team reserves the right to remove a member and reclaim their subdomain and services if they are found to be in serious or repeated violation of these terms or the etiquette guidelines. You'll be given reasonable notice and an opportunity to migrate your content.
    
    
11. Abandoned names. If a group member has had no activity and the member has been unreachable for over one year, the admin team may reclaim it after making a reasonable effort to make contact.
    

Social Etiquette Guidelines

These are guidelines for social behavior that can be applied in online (and even offline) spaces. All members are expected to uphold these principles at all times, whether or not they are acting in foxy.art community spaces.

1. Engage in good faith
   • To engage in "good faith" means to assume that others have sincere, honest and respectful intentions.
     • Bad faith discussions are approached with:
       • Personal attacks
         
       • Assumptions about bad intent
         
       • Misrepresenting others' ideas
         
     • Good faith discussions are approached with:
       • Honesty and openness
         
       • An effort to understand others' thought process (where they are coming from)
         
       • Mindfulness of potential misunderstandings that may arise
         
       • Assumption that others are not deliberately trying to be harmful
         
   • It's important to note: When dealing with sensitive issues that go against the dominant worldview (e.g., "commonly accepted ideas"), others will likely not have all of the knowledge they need to come to a complete understanding of the issue. We should not attack seemingly well-intentioned people for this, and instead work toward coming to a mutual understanding when possible.
     
   • Even when bad faith is evident, do not attack others or lose your cool. If help is needed, reach out to the mod team.
     
   
   
2. Engage in constructive conflict
   • Conflict is necessary for growth. It can be uncomfortable, but it also fuels change. There is constructive and destructive conflict. We can only engage in constructive conflict when all parties engage in good-faith discussions.
     • Destructive conflict looks like:
       • An effort to win at any cost
         
       • Treating questions or criticisms as personal attacks
         
       • Mocking or ridiculing others
         
       • Ignoring, dismissing, mocking or ridiculing others' ideas
         
     • Constructive conflict looks like:
       • People interested in coming to a mutual and, ultimately, better understanding
         
       • Listening closely to others' viewpoints
         
       • Openness to reconsidering your own perspective
         • Reconsidering your perspective doesn't necessarily mean reconsidering your position. Perspective is how you view something, and perspective is always clearest when we analyze all parts of a situation.
           
   • We should approach conflict as a dialogue instead of a debate.
     • What is the difference between a debate and a dialogue?
       • A debate is oppositional: two or more sides oppose each other and attempt to prove each other wrong.
         
       • A dialogue is collaborative: two or more sides work together toward common understanding.
         
   • If it becomes apparent that constructive conflict is not possible, the best thing to do is to disengage.
     
   
   
3. Be mindful of participating in a shared, public space
   • Community space is shared with other people.
     
   • We should not speak over, interrupt or interject a conversation with unreasonably off-topic comments.
     
   • We should not make our own voices louder than others, being careful not to take up more than our own share of space.