This is a Place for Discussion About Redact.dev and Data Privacy

Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. This is a shared community resource for Redact.dev users and team members to share Redact.dev relevant requests, issues, updates and general information on data privacy.

These are not hard and fast rules. They are guidelines to keep this a kind, friendly place for civilized public discourse.

Improve the Discussion

Help us make this a great place for discussion by adding positive things to conversations, however small. If you are unsure if your post adds to the discussion - think it over before you post.

Before you post a new topic, spend some time browsing the existing ones - you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your perspective.

The topics here are important to us, and we want them to be important to you too. Be respectful of the topics, and the people discussing them - even if you disagree with some of what is being said.

Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree

You may wish to respond by disagreeing. That’s fine. But remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:

  • Name-calling
  • Ad hominem attacks
  • Responding to a post’s tone instead of its content
  • Knee-jerk contradiction

Instead, provide thoughtful insights that improve the conversation.

Your Participation Counts

The conversations here set the tone for new arrivals - help us protect the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting and productive place to be, while avoiding those that do not.

The community can collectively identify the best (and worst) contributes through bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, watching, muting and so on. Use these tools to improve the experience for you and the community.

If You See a Problem, Flag It

Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.

When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. Replying encourages bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.

In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.

Always Be Civil

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:

  • Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
  • Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
  • Respect privacy for all. Don’t post any personal information, ever, for any reason.
  • Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, target or personally attack others.
  • Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.

Violating these terms, or appearing to violate these terms is likely to attract moderator action. Keep the language, links and images you share safe for family and friends.

Keep It Tidy

Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:

  • Don’t start a topic in the wrong category; read the category definitions.
  • Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
  • Don’t post no-content replies.
  • Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
  • Don’t sign your posts - every post has your profile information attached to it.

Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.

Post Only Your Own Stuff

You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.

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