This is a living document where we can collaborate on the guiding principles of the non-profit and what it is and is-not.
Guiding Principles:
- A person can be banned for life given repeated violations of the terms of service.
- To be banned there must be 100% agreement of the non-profit board of directors. Or, more than 55% of all users must agree on the ban.
- There will be an annual election of the board of directors and the executive director.
- The executive director is the moderator and can delegate the moderation to others they see fit.
- Any moderation decision made can be appealed to the board of directors.
- Moderation decisions can be overturned by more than 55% of the board of directors.
What it is:
- Moderated
- A community project.
- I’m driving this because I have a tech background and I really dislike the direction for-profit social networks have gone.
- Being a community, non-profit project I admit I don’t know everything. I need your help. I need you to comment below, fill out surveys, and provide input. The community needs to steer the direction that the community wants its social network to go.
what it is not:
- A place for hate-speach.
- A place to organize any protest, social disruption, vandalism, crime, etc.
- A place to engage companies, organizations, etc.
- To be perfectly honest this non-profit is going to be small & hyper-local. It’s false to believe companies will create accounts or monitor every little network that pops up.That can/should be a place for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. But it should also be a conscious choice of “I want to engage the world” or “I want to engage my friends and family”.
Use the comments below to add what you think it should or should not be. We will then integrate all data into a voting platform for open, transparent agreement on purpose.