ravelry community guidelines

These rules are for the safety and comfort of everyone. Breaking them is not tolerated and will result in your account being restricted for a number of days or completely removed:

• Personal attacks, harassment, and personal threats are not allowed on Ravelry (show our definition of personal attacks and harassment).
  The following actions constitute personal attacks:

  Racial, sexual, homophobic, ageist, ableist, sexist, religious, political, ethnic, or other epithets directed against another user.

  Accusations about the private behavior of another member.

  Threats, including threats of legal action, made on the forums or via private message. Threats of violence or negative actions to be taken off-Ravelry are not tolerated.

  The following actions constitute harassment:

  Repeatedly using project or stash comments, forum posts, or private messages to harass, threaten or insult other users.

  Repeatedly linking to the Ravelry posts of a user or offsite blog posts or information with the intent to insult or ridicule.

• Hate speech and hateful imagery is not permitted on Ravelry (show our definition of hate speech and hateful imagery). Note that support of President Trump, his administration, or individual policies that harm marginalized groups, all constitute hate speech. More information...
  Hate Speech and Hateful Imagery Words, phrases, or images deemed by Ravelry's owners to express, either deliberately or unknowingly, hatred or contempt towards a group of people, based on areas such as their ethnic, cultural, religious or sexual identity, gender, socio-economic class, or with reference to physical health or mental health, are not allowed.
• Respect the privacy of others. Do not post the contents of private correspondence or private information about other Ravelry members without permission. You may not link to off-site privacy violations.

• All group moderators are required to uphold these guidelines to the best of their abilities and contact us if they are unable to do so for some reason.
• Groups may have their own rules as long as they do not interfere with these Ravelry-wide policies. Note that the Main forums have their own rules too.
• Group moderators and administrators may not solicit personal donations from their group members.

• Spreading of harmful advice, hoaxes, or other disinformation is unacceptable.
• Reviews and criticism that are genuine are always welcome. At the same time, if we suspect that you are trying to leverage the site for the purpose of harming a business or person, your posts will be deleted and your posting privileges may be affected.

• No adult language in avatars or usernames.
• Nudity or graphic violence in avatars or other photos is not permitted.
• Note that groups often have their own rules about adult language.

• Unsolicited promotional private messages are spam.
• Posting the same message to more than 2 boards without permission from the group owner/moderators is not permitted. Unreasonable crossposting is considered spam.

• "Sock puppet" accounts are not permitted and using one will affect your primary Ravelry account. A sock puppet is an additional Ravelry account that is used in a deceptive fashion. (show more information about sock puppets)
  Some examples:

  Inappropriate uses of alternative accounts
  Posting in a forum in conjunction with another account in order to deceive, affect public opinion, etc
  Posting about a business or entity that you are affiliated without disclosing that relationship
  Impersonating another person in the fiber community (on or off of the site)

  Appropriate uses of alternative accounts
  Privacy - sometimes users may wish to have some or all of their group/forum posts separate from their other uses of Ravelry
  Separation of work and personal use of Ravelry
  Reserving the name for your brand or business name.