As a crowdsourcing platform we welcome everyone, and encourage a friendly and
positive environment.
This code of conduct outlines our expectations from participants to ascertain
successful participation, as well as steps to reporting unacceptable behavior. We
are committed to providing a welcoming and inspiring environment for all and expect
our code of conduct to be honored. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be
banned from the Platform or their responses can be deleted.
During your participation in crowdsourcing projects:
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Be clear and relevant to the topic: Try to be precise and
explain your thoughts and arguments with clarity. All answers must be relevant
to the topic of the questionnaire. This will facilitate the platform’s
moderators work, where they will have to analyze all given answers, categorize
them and produce valuable insights that can have a positive impact οn the
society.
- Be respectful and kind: Not all of us will agree all the time,
but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. It’s important
to remember that even though the answers you provide are anonymous, an
environment where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive
one. Of course harassment, insults, posting (or threatening to post) other
people’s personally identifying information (“doxing”), racist or sexist terms,
and other exclusionary behavior aren’t acceptable.
If you just keep “respectful and kind” in mind, you can't go wrong.
- Remember that your contribution is public: Your email and any
personal information is not revealed by the platform. Though the textual answers
you provide in the questionnaires, the answers to open-ended questions, may be
publicly available. Do not include any personal information in your responses
that you do not wish to be publicly available.
Diversity Statement
We encourage everyone to participate and are committed to building a community for all.
Although this list cannot be exhaustive, we explicitly honor diversity in age, gender,
gender identity or expression, culture, ethnicity, language, national origin, political
beliefs, profession, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and
technical ability. We will not tolerate discrimination based on any of the protected
characteristics above, including participants with disabilities.
Excluding inappropriate content
Platform facilitators will periodically review contributions posted by participants.
Facilitators can exclude inappropriate content from the platform, and explain reasons
for exclusion to the author of the excluded content.
Reporting Issues
If you experience or witness unacceptable behavior, or have any other concerns, please
report it by contacting the organisers at info(at)ecas.org
All reports will be handled with discretion. In your report please include:
- Your contact information.
- The questionnaire response that you wish to report. Provide the name of the project,
the question and the answer’s text that you want to report.
After filing a report, a representative will contact you personally, review the
incident, follow up with any additional questions, and make a decision as to how to
respond.
Attribution & Acknowledgements
This code of conduct has used elements of the Code of Conduct from the
Open Life Science
