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══🪐 Welcome to our community! 🚀 ══
Our community is dedicated to sharing our interests in space with others. Before you take your first step, please be informed of our guidelines to make sure no misunderstandings occur.

・🌌 Space Amino Guidelines 🌠・
As a community dedicated to sharing of our passions and interests, there are very little rules outside basic étiquettes.

═ ⋆★ General Behaviour ★⋆ ═

G-I. Treat others with respect.

It's obvious that we all have different ideas, thoughts, values and ways to express them. For this reason, sometimes those expressions can be misinterpreted or misrepresented.

Humans can immediately react to this with emotions that make one irrational and impulsive. That can lead to toxicity among others that hurts our community.

So if you find yourself being offended by or disagreeing with something, please do your best to keep calm and express what you REALLY want to express.
Those small issues can be dealt with on their own without any intervention of others or damaging anyone's reputations. I humbly ask you to do so.

We're not saying you have to keep in your frustration to yourself all the time. That is not possible and we know it.
We're only asking you to try your best to act in a way not to make more issues but to understand each other properly.

We're also not saying resolve everything by yourself. If you think you need to get any help from other members or the moderation team, please do so.

If you are seeking assistance from the moderation team, you can do so via reports or dms if necessary. Responses or actions may take delays but we'll try our best to help you.

G-II. Use English in public.

As this is a community that uses English, you should use English when making posts and chatting publicly or with another English speaker.

You are free to use other languages in private with others who can/want to learn how to speak them. This is not to insult other languages, it's for practicality, obviously.

G-III. No Full Names in Usernames.

To protect everyone's privacy, you cannot set your username as your full name in real life. This means including both your First and Last name. Just your first name is fine. Violation of this guideline will temporarily make your account hidden before changing your username after a notice by one of the moderators.

We also advise you to avoid setting your profile picture as your face or someone else's face without consent. This is not a rule you must follow but an advisement. Faces of small and big celebrities are also fine.

G-IV. Age Restrictions

As we have to also enforce Team Amino's guidelines the following rule will be applied for our community.

Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from using Amino. If Amino obtains actual knowledge or has good reason to believe that a user is under the age of 13, it is our policy to permanently deactivate their account and delete their personal information.

═ ⋆★ Posting Guidelines ★⋆ ═

P-I. You're free to post anything as long as it stays in topic.

As a community dedicated to freely sharing our interests, you can post anything related to the topic of space and science involved with space.

P-II. Public Chats

You do not require a permission to create a public chatroom, but chats counted as spam like advertisements or shitposts will be disabled.

Chats with no activity for a month will be also disabled but you will not be issued a strike in this case.

If you're still not sure, you can ask one of the curators or leaders. Only things that are completely unrelated will be removed. General shitposting is also prohibited.

Posts violating this rule will result in the post getting taken down and disabled.

Just an advice for Roleplayers, we recommend adding an "[OC]" mark on the title for OC wiki posts to avoid confusion. It's not required for now, we're just recommending it.

If you're looking for what to do, please refer to this post.

═ ⋆★ Advertising ★⋆ ═

A-I. You'll need permission from the Moderation Team.

If you wish to collaborate with our community, please contact the moderation team before doing on your own.

Promoting other communities, products or services without permission from the moderation team are prohibited and will be considered a violation of our guidelines.

To get permission from the moderation team, please contact one of the leaders via dm. Once you got the permission, identify the person you got it from on your promotion material to make sure you did.

Violating this rule will result in all of these promotion materials getting taken down

We welcome collaborations with other communities and creators as it will help both of us grow.

═ ⋆★ Enforcement ★⋆ ═

E-I. These actions will be taken when you violate the guidelines in the following order; 3 Warnings, 3 Strikes, Ban.

Although all of us want to be free to do anything in this community, guideline enforcement procedures have to be in place to avoid toxicity.

We believe in second chances. Humans make mistakes and learn from them. That's how we grow. But those who don't learn from them and repeat them for his/her own gain, hurting our community, will be faced with consequences.

If you don't know what those three actions do,
Warnings are only a message from a leader.
Strikes only limits your activity
Bans will permanently limit your activity by kicking you out and not letting you back in. You won't be able to enter the community entirely.

E-II. No Mini-Modding.

Keep in mind that the enforcements are to be directly be done only by the moderation team, meaning only Leaders or Curators and NOT everyone in this community. Pretending to enforce our guidelines while you're not a part of our leadership team will be also considered a violation of our guidelines.

E-III. Emergency Actions

In some cases, taking actions step by step in our standard procedures can be not enough to stop the toxicity. Therefore, a Leader can take direct actions as deemed necessary.

This mostly applies to banning toxic members and spammers.

To avoid power abuse, the person who took this action must report to the other members of the Leadership Team with justification after taking the action. It is also possible to vote on these actions before it is taken judged by the team.

E-IV. Guidelines for Moderators

These are the guidelines for applying our guidelines to a member of the moderation team.

Definition: Standard Voting
A standard voting is a way to vote regarding the guidelines mentioned below. It lasts over 24 hours to cover all the timezones across the globe, if the ones who voted yes is same as or more than the ones who voted no, the vote passes. Ones who couldn't or didn't vote as well as ones who were neutral will not be counted.

• Strikes •
Giving warnings to a Curator/Leader is possible without a vote, but a strike has to be agreed on by a standard vote by the entire moderation team.

The one wishing to give out a strike must inform the team in the moderation team chat about what has happened and the justification for giving a strike before the vote. If the vote passes, the strike will be given out and the moderator will be demoted.

• Demotions •
The current serving moderators can also be demoted by the following rule.

< Vote by the Moderation Team >

Other than receiving strikes, a member of the moderation team can propose a vote to the whole team to demote one or more of the team. A standard vote for individual moderator will undergo after at least 3 moderators agreed, and the moderator(s) will be demoted if it passes.

The proposals can have a variety of reasons including inactivity, bad behaviour and other reasons to prove someone's not fitted to serve the role as a curator/leader.

Contrary to the options above, a moderator can choose to be demoted by one's own choice. Just ask with a reason and you'll be done with your service.

After the demotion, the given member still can apply again for the moderation team.

═ ⋆★ Noticing Violations ★⋆ ═

Violations are noticed by the moderators themselves or reports made by the members. Or if you think it's a more serious matter, please message one of the active leaders directly as soon as possible.

You can always make an alternative account to get around these measures and we've seen them happening in other communities.
This is fine as long as you decide to start off new as a better person. But if you're still going to be inappropriate with your alt account, just think of what else you can do with your life!

═⋆★ TA Bans ★⋆ ═

I have personally experienced seeing members getting banned randomly without any reason by Team Amino on an another community.
Although it's been long since that happened, if it does here, you can notify a member of the moderation team with your alt account and we'll see what we can do

═ ⋆★ Moderation System ★⋆ ═

As we aspire to be a democratic community, we will go through a poll either by the entire community or the moderation team before more drastic changes are done. We also welcome participations in these events.

We've tried to cover as much cases that can happen in this community as we can, but not all cases may apply to these rules. If that's the case you'd know what to do.

The above is the guideline for our community, the following will be the universal guideline made by Team Amino. This will apply for every community including ours. Consequently, we will also enforce them and issue strikes accordingly.