Hopscotch Forum Community Guidelines
Welcome, Hopscotchers!
This forum is here to help you improve your Hopscotch skills and share what you know to help others. Here are your guidelines to make this forum a place where everyone feels welcomed, supported, and encouraged. Follow the guidelines at all times.
If you have any questions about why a certain guideline exists, please feel free to ask here! If you have any questions/comments/concerns regarding the Leadership Team and Forum moderation, please use this topic.
Be Nice to Others
- Practice good digital citizenship (some jokes aren’t as funny when they’re online!)
- Be respectful with your words, and address others the way they want to be addressed
- If you disagree with someone, disagree politely. Sharing your own beliefs doesn’t mean de-valuing other people’s beliefs.
- Share and learn. Help out fellow Hopscotchers when they have questions. Seek help when you have questions. There’s always room to learn more!
- Respect each other’s privacy. Don’t go into other people’s unlisted topics, and do not set your notifications to Watching or Tracking for the Collaborations & Beta Testing category. More details can be found here.
- Kindness entails inclusion! To make sure that everyone is able to understand each other and communicate effectively, all posts should be in standard written English.
- You may use other languages as long as a clear, standard english translation is provided visibly in the same post.
Alternate Accounts
- Each person is limited to one forum account. Alternate accounts are not allowed and will be banned
Online Safety
- Keep Hopscotch a safe place. Don’t share personal information, and don’t ask others to share their personal information (through polls or direct requests)!
- Conversations should stay on the forum. Do not share links for others to contact you outside of the forum.
- First name
- Age
- Hopscotch username
- Links to the websites that contain useful information about coding and creative arts as long as they in no way contain content that we don’t allow. They may also not promote anything that is not allowed, and the Leadership Team maintains the right to remove any links posted that violate this.
- Hopscotch-related GitHub and GitLab links
- Links to your YouTube channel
- Your last name
- Any emails without an @gethopscotch.com domain (THT emails)
- Phone numbers
- Where you live
- Your school
- Social media info
- Usernames for other platforms
- Personal pictures (any original pictures that you or someone close to you has taken)
- Photos of yourself
- Photos of your friends and family members.
- Photos of your house or street
- Photos of your school
- Photos of any other location that can give away where you are. This also includes photos of your letters, messages, and phone screens.
Things you can share
Important: if any profiles associated with the links you post contain personal information that’s not allowed, it will be removed. This includes YouTube channels and personal websites that are not on GitHub or aren’t Hopscotch-related.
Things you cannot share
- For a more detailed explanation of what you can and can’t post on the forum please see this post
- If you’re not sure about something, ask! Tag a leader on the Leaders Q and A Topic or email us at help@gethopscotch.com
Keep the discussion clean!
- Don’t post something you wouldn’t want your grandma to see
- Flag inappropriate or harmful content, and it will be removed. Please do not reply to it.
- Keep it relevant! Add to the conversation by responding directly to the question posted in the topic, or reply as a linked topic to lead the conversation in a slightly different direction.
- Each topic serves a purpose! Make sure that your discussion is always productive and not posting for the sake of posting.
- Topics should not be spammed towards closing time
- All unapproved non-code related topics will be archived.
User Activity
- Do not make speculations about other users. These accusations are hurtful and only lead to more off-topic discussion. Examples include (but are not limited to):
- Whether someone self-planted
- Whether someone is stealing code
- Why someone has been suspended
If you have any concerns about a particular user, email THT directly at hello@gethopscotch.com
Seeds, Plants, Likes, and Follows
- You may only request for plants, seeds, followers, and likes in:
- The Official Seeds/Plants/Likes Request Topic, up to once a day and no more than 3 times a week
- A Hopscotcher-started competition/event topic that involves a prize, given that the host is okay with you asking for plants related to that event.
- When creating a competition or event that involves seeds, you must keep the disclaimer that is generated when you create the topic.
- Replace the (@ yourself) with
@your-username, but leave it unmodified otherwise.
- Replace the (@ yourself) with
- If you are requesting seeds in a shop, you must be providing a project, service, or commission that cannot be undone.
- This means you cannot sell likes and follows for seeds on the app, as those are hard to track and easy to undo.
Your Original Artwork, Designs, and Videos
- All original artwork and sketch-ups must be posted in the Drawing with Hopscotch Topic. To post your art in other topics, please include a link to your post instead of posting it on its own.
- A full list of the Drawing with Hopscotch guidelines can be found here.
Exceptions can be made for original creations associated with unlisted topics
- If you’d like to share a YouTube video about Hopscotch, you must post the link in this topic. Make sure that both the channel and video only has Hopscotch-related content and does not reveal personal information.
- Using your voice in videos is allowed, but no face reveals please :)
- To create a second YouTube channel with the same email as your main channel, just search for 2 youtube channels 1 account
- The rule of posting in this topic is mainly for YouTube channels and videos, because a YouTube channel could have videos that are not Hopscotch-related. Recordings of Hopscotch projects on Catbox are standalone, so you can post them in YCTAHH, #hopscotch-bugs, #project-updates or #debug-my-code as you need.
Warnings and Suspensions
If you break a community guideline, you will receive an official warning. If you receive three warnings, your account will be silenced for a day. If, after two silencings, you continue to break a community guideline, you will receive a two-week suspension. After that, any continued breach of guidelines will result in a permanent suspension. For an easy way to remember this: just think 3-2-1!
Receiving Reminders vs Warnings
Depending on the severity of offense, a community reminder may be sent before a community warning. For each type of offense (breaking each guideline category listed above), one reminder may be sent. If a warning has already been sent for that offense without a reminder, only warnings will be sent following continued infringements. Reminders are intended to gently correct guideline-breaking, but like Community Warnings, are also serious and lead to consequences.
Trust Level Locking
The most common consequence of multiple reminders is Trust Level locking[4]. If we have subsequently sent reminders/warnings but see no comparable change in behavior, this may occur.
Trust levels are based on trust, and are a privilege. Disrespect of the community and breaking guidelines intended to maintain a safe space is also breaking trust, and additional privileges will only be granted once the trust earned back.[5]
Consciously improving behavior will result in us removing this lock, so don’t get discouraged! All of these actions taken are to help us help you while maintaining the community’s integrity.
This post was modified from the original post, with the help of forum leaders.
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Assets imported to your game, i.e. drawings of characters ↩︎
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Designs such as sketch-ups of game menus
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Sketches of basic gameplay such as room layouts ↩︎
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the act of setting a lock on the user’s profile so that cannot automatically advance in trust level ↩︎
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After one year, without any additional community warnings, you will be able to get your trust level unlocked and work your way up again. ↩︎