Mastodon | scholar.social | About text
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Title
Mastodon | scholar.social | About text
Subject
social media; Free computer software
Description
This is a text version of the scholar.social's rules.
Creator
Socrates
Source
https://scholar.social/about/more
Date
2017-7-31
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Format
Text;PDF
Language
English
Type
Text;PDF
Identifier
802.250170731
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scholar.social
A Mastodon instance for academics
Scholar Social is meant for: researchers, grad students, undergrads, academically inclined high schoolers, educators of all levels, journal editors, research assistants, librarians, administrators—anyone involved in academia who is willing to engage with others respectfully.
"A Mastodon profile you can be proud to put on the last slide of a presentation at a conference"
Read more ...
Home to
112
users
Who authored
3,458
statuses
Connected to
601
other instances
This is a general-purpose federated Mastodon instance. You may use it as a personal account, but the focus is on academics. This is supposed to be "the Mastodon profile that you're not embarrassed to put on the last slide of a presentation at a conference." :P
Real names and credentials are recommended for networking purposes but are absolutely not required.
Do
Brag about your publications
Share references and resources
Network with other academics
Add CW's (content warnings) to your posts liberally: label strong language, rants, spoilers of TV shows, etc. We're academics! We love meta-data!
Recruit participants for academic surveys—formal, IRB-approved ones or even informal ones (just make sure to CW them and don't get too obnoxious about it)
Don't
Post anything that could be described as "spam"
Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
Impersonate other people
Harass other people
In more detail
Many thanks to mastodon.social, from whom I took these policies.
The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of scholar.social; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:
The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
Excessive advertising
Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
Untagged pornography and sexually explicit content
Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence
The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
Racism or advocation of racism
Sexism or advocation of sexism
Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:
Sexual depictions of children
Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called doxing or dropping dox) may be considered harassment.
Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called brigading or dogpiling) may be considered harassment.
These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.
A Mastodon instance for academics
Scholar Social is meant for: researchers, grad students, undergrads, academically inclined high schoolers, educators of all levels, journal editors, research assistants, librarians, administrators—anyone involved in academia who is willing to engage with others respectfully.
"A Mastodon profile you can be proud to put on the last slide of a presentation at a conference"
Read more ...
Home to
112
users
Who authored
3,458
statuses
Connected to
601
other instances
This is a general-purpose federated Mastodon instance. You may use it as a personal account, but the focus is on academics. This is supposed to be "the Mastodon profile that you're not embarrassed to put on the last slide of a presentation at a conference." :P
Real names and credentials are recommended for networking purposes but are absolutely not required.
Do
Brag about your publications
Share references and resources
Network with other academics
Add CW's (content warnings) to your posts liberally: label strong language, rants, spoilers of TV shows, etc. We're academics! We love meta-data!
Recruit participants for academic surveys—formal, IRB-approved ones or even informal ones (just make sure to CW them and don't get too obnoxious about it)
Don't
Post anything that could be described as "spam"
Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
Impersonate other people
Harass other people
In more detail
Many thanks to mastodon.social, from whom I took these policies.
The following guidelines are not a legal document, and final interpretation is up to the administration of scholar.social; they are here to provide you with an insight into our content moderation policies:
The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:
Excessive advertising
Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
Untagged pornography and sexually explicit content
Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence
The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:
Racism or advocation of racism
Sexism or advocation of sexism
Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism
The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:
Sexual depictions of children
Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism
Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called doxing or dropping dox) may be considered harassment.
Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called brigading or dogpiling) may be considered harassment.
These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.
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Socrates, “Mastodon | scholar.social | About text,” The Social Media Alternatives Project, accessed July 8, 2024, https://socialmediaalternatives.org/archive/items/show/810.