Socks is meant to be a useful, low-pressure public resource. Treat people with patience and respect.
- Be kind and direct.
- Assume people arrive with different technical backgrounds.
- Make room for questions.
- Credit sources and lived experience where appropriate.
- Focus criticism on the work, not the person.
- Harassment, threats, or targeted insults.
- Publishing private information.
- Gatekeeping based on skill level, identity, or background.
- Encouraging scams, abuse, evasion, or harm.
- Repeatedly derailing safety-focused discussions.
If something needs attention, open a private maintainer contact route when available or create an issue with only the details needed to understand the problem. Maintainers may remove comments, close threads, block users, or decline contributions to keep the project healthy.