rules-and-guidelines・📋

[tall holly]

Server Rules 📕

**1. Be compassionate and treat others with kindness and respect.**All kinds of harassment, hate speech and impersonation will not be tolerated. Keep conversations civil, welcoming, and on-topic. Post messages and content in good faith.

**2. English-only conversations (for now).**Please keep conversations in English. This helps us moderate our community as we continue to grow.

**3. Be mindful to channel topics.**No discussion of politics, religion, or other sensitive topics. Keep conversations to their appropriate channels. This server is a place for everyone to relax, learn, and have fun. We want to avoid any discussions that could cause unnecessary conflict.

**4. No spam.**This includes, but is not limited to, flooding the chat with many messages in a short period of time, repeatedly pinging specific members, posting excessive amounts of emojis and posting excessively long messages. When sharing multiple generations, please utilize the threads function to reduce spam.

**5. No NSFW **(“Not suitable for work”) content of any kind. Use discretion and apply content/trigger warning tags to sensitive content. This includes anything shared in voice channels, text channels, and any type of shared content (words, images, videos, etc).

**6. Violence or Threats, Extremism/Terror, Gore, Serious Inappropriate Content or Conduct – Explicit or Directed to Children, Other Illegal Content, and Doxxing/Swatting are not allowed.**This is not tolerated and will result in your removal from the server and will be reported to Discord.

**7. No advertising or off-topic self-promotion.**Avoid posting content for the sole purpose of self-promotion if it does not contribute to the discussion. 📣 See more details on self-promo, advertising, and link sharing below.

**8. No buying, selling, trading or asking for handouts.**This is not a marketplace.

**9. No confidential or sensitive business information.**This is an open, public platform. Do not disclose or discuss anything confidential or not released to the public.

10. No inappropriate profiles.(Usernames, nicknames, avatars, linked accounts, playing and custom status, profiles, and more). This includes zalgo, blank usernames, unusual unicode characters, overly lengthy usernames, slurs, or any other offensive materials.

11. No sharing, distribution, or publishingof conversation, content, and the like without express consent and permission of people involved.

**12. No impersonation of Google or Google Staff.**Do not impersonate Google or Google Staff for any reason, otherwise you will be banned.

**13. Moderators have final verdict on rules.**This list of rules is not complete and the moderator team may take action against violations not explicitly stated above at their discretion.

[tall holly]

📣 Extended details on Rule 7. below:

✅ Tier 1: High-Value, Community-Focused Content (Allowed in designated channels, where it makes sense contextually to the conversation).

This is: Content that directly benefits the server members and contributes to education around building and creating with generative AI, both with Labs tools and as part of larger workflows. Some examples include:

• Open-Source Projects: Sharing a new AI library or tool on GitHub.
• Tutorials & Educational Content: i.e. A blog post or video explaining a complex AI concept.
• Academic Papers & Articles (News): Sharing a new research paper you've published, or a cool AI-paper/article.
• AI aides: Sharing tools that help server members improve their gens, including prompting tools, guides, and more.

✅ Tier 2: Direct Advertising (Allowed ONLY in your introduction message within the #intros channel)

**This is: **For members who want to share their personal work or projects. Some examples include:

• Linking to a personal portfolio, projects, resume, or LinkedIn,
• Someone advertising a paid course.
• Someone advertising their company’s paid product.
• Links to paid/API products.

❌ Tier 3: Low-Value, Spammy Content (Not allowed anywhere)

This is: Content that has no real connection to the server's purpose or is a clear attempt to use the server for free advertising without providing value. Some examples include:

• Recruiting for a non-AI role (e.g., a salesperson).
• Affiliate links without providing a useful resource.
• Links to join scam servers.
• Mass-market advertising for a product that isn't specifically AI-related.
• Repeatedly posting the same link or message.
• Unsolicited DMs to members.
• Media links that are irrelevant to Labs or the topic of discussion (youtube/tiktok/reels links)

**## Community Guidelines 📑 **These guidelines apply to all members of our Discord community, including our collaborators and staff. Please note that conversation here may be shared with our team for product feedback. By joining this server you agree to abide by these server rules and community guidelines.

- Discuss topics in good faith and be empathetic. The tech we discuss and play with is in rapid development and has wide-ranging impacts, which means that conversation is easily emotionally charged. We acknowledge and honor the lived experiences of our fellow members, welcome debate and disagreement, and appreciate the passion that everyone brings to the table. We do not tolerate personal attacks and shaming.

**- Share resources and learn through making. **We define making as anything that engages with AI in a constructive, personal, or critical way. We understand that folks have varying degrees of experience and familiarity with this tech, and aim to cultivate a supportive learning environment by sharing our processes, notes, and stray thoughts. This is an attribution-heavy server; while we are the products of a remix culture, we credit our influences and inspirations whenever possible.

**- Respect each other's privacy. **Do not share content without express consent and permission of people involved.

**- Engage at your own level of comfort. **There's no expectation for how involved you should be; take it at your own pace! We realize that learning/working styles differ and communication preference vary.

- Maintenance of shared spaces. We want to make sure that this server is a comfortable environment for exchange; as such please avoid spamming channels and aim to consolidate paragraphs into larger chunks. Refrain from self-promotion, please (this also applies to us, the Google staff!). Please use your best judgement and provide content/trigger warnings for sensitive topics.

- Server etiquette. If you have any concerns, please let us know or ping <@&1366831844502274180>.