Community Guidelines

Community rules

• Please be respectful to other members. Avoid any racist, sexist, homophobic, excessively political, or otherwise distasteful discussions.
• While some cursing is appropriate in context, refrain from using excessive profanity.
• Keep conversations in the appropriate channel. Some off-topic discussions are to be expected, but try not to blatantly post non-subject-related content.
• No not safe for work (NSFW) material is allowed. Breaking this rule will be met with an immediate ban.
• Keep spam to a minimum:
  • Do not repeatedly send the same message.
  • Do not post links to sites/content others would find unacceptable.
• Advertising or promotion of piracy is forbidden.
• Staff members (@Developer on Discord) have the final say about what is and is not acceptable within the community. Refusals to listen to staff may result in being kicked or banned.
• HAVE FUN and enjoy all that the community has to offer.

To read our Code of Conduct please refer to Code of Conduct.

Team rules

On top of the community rules, the development and moderation team has to keep themselves to a specific set of rules.

Behavioural rules

• Keep cool to any community member, even if they can be very frustrating to deal with: Do not retaliate, say nothing if you cannot keep it polite.
• Stand up for one another and take responsibility for each others mistakes.
• Any team member can request a time-out in team chat, which will suspend any talking in team chat for 30 minutes.
  • Respect the time out, do not contact each other in DM during this period.
• We work with a 3 strike system, if you hit strike 3 you will lose your role.

Rules regarding PRs

• Any contributor PR requires at least two code reviews, either by developers or trusted community members (at least one developer).
• Any developer PR requires at least one code review, by another developer.
• Any PR requires one playtest review, if applicable.
• Any developer may self-request a review on a PR. If another developer approves the PR, the developer who self-requested a review should be notified via Discord. If the developer does not leave a review within two days after this notification, the PR may be merged.

Guidelines regarding public relations and community management

With an online presence we require maintaining a good public image. For this we have specific guidelines, so each party can take responsibility where necessary.

• Any message* for support or public relations requires a signature**.
• When sending emails, finish the letter with: Your regards, your name and the OpenRCT2 Team.
• Please keep a professional tone when communicating for support and public relations purposes.

*Discord messages are already signed.
**For the identity associated with each signature refer to the paragraph "Team signatures"

Team Signatures

When finding a message on our social media the following signatures refer to the following members:

Name	Signature
Ted (IntelOrca)	~/i
Duncan (duncanpumpkin)	~/d
Michał (janisozaur)	~/j
Hielke (Broxzier)	~/b
Tulio (tupaschoal)	~/t
Olivier (Oli414)	~/o
Matthias (ZehMatt)	~/z
Karst (AuraSpecs)	~/a
Michael (mrmbernardi)	~/m
Michael (Gymnasiast)	~/g