These are set and enforced by the mage.town moderators.
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Don't be an asshole. This includes the obvious, such as blatant bigotry, harassment, and hate speech, but also the less obvious: if someone tells you they feel you are being unkind, stop!
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Magetown is not a free speech zone. "Disciplinary action," such as it is, will only ever be used as an absolute last resort in Magetown, but in situations of overt cruelty or repeated callousness, I will not hesitate to cast on you a spell of "banished from Magetown forever."
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Go nuts, show nuts, whatever! But please use a content warning (the "CW" option that shows up when you make a post). Sexually explicit content, gory or graphically violent content, and triggering content related to mental illness and substance abuse should always have a CW.
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More CWs is better. Other mastodon instances frequently enforce rules around using CWs for content such as politics, alcohol & drugs, eye contact in images, sexual themes, food, and negative posts in general. We have no hard-and-fast rules about those topics here, but try and be mindful!
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Local-only posts should stay local-only. If someone in Magetown has posted something with the local-only privacy setting, it is a violation of trust to share that content outside of Magetown. Always seek explicit permission before sharing someone's local-only post with others.
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The following ideologies are NOT welcome in Magetown, ever: alt-right, nazism, white nationalism, religious fundamentalism, anti-feminism, radical "feminism"/TERF/SWERF, truscum/transmed. There is zero-tolerance among mages for bigotry.