<aside> 💡 This document comprises a guide for productive engagement on Slack and our general posting guidelines and policies.

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💎 Our Values

As a community, we prioritize the following values:

📊 Acting with Impact

We continuously seek out the best ways to improve the lives of animals through impactful, evidence-based strategies alongside promising experimental approaches backed by sound reasoning.

👂 Openness & Inclusivity

We strive to cultivate a friendly and welcoming environment that nurtures curiosity and a culture of giving serious consideration to alternative perspectives.

🤝 Collaborative Engagement

We embrace open collaboration, constructive criticism, low barriers to asking for and offering help, and mutual respect. In this way, we empower one another and propel the movement forward.

👌🏽 General guidelines for engagement

Hive is fertile soil rather than fruit - Give back, Create virtuous cycles, Scale yourself!

Before you start posting anything: Make sure that your profile is “interactable”!

• 🙂 Good: Add your name, location and a profile picture
• 😃 Better: Fully set up your profile, as suggested here!
• ‼Note: If you prefer or have to remain anonymous, feel free to use an alias! Please do, however, use a real sounding name, as opposed to a slogan, a combination of numbers or the name of an organization.

Found a broadly useful resource? Share it better than you found it!

• 🙂 Good: Share it with a short sentence, describing what exactly the resource is.
• 😃 Better: Share it with a personal comment on why it is useful to people who want to work on animal advocacy, any additional valuable context, and what you got out of it.

Need help with something that others might also need help with?

• 🙂 Good: Ask for yourself on **#03-help-requests** or see if someone offered their help on your topic in **#04-help-offered.**
• 😃 Better: Come up with an idea for how to help people with a similar need, post on the relevant channel, find collaborators and make it happen!

Want to meet someone from a certain organization?

• 🙂 Good: Find someone from there on #01-introductions, reach out to them being mindful of etiquette (below).
• 😃 Better: Loved the conversation? Ask if they would like to host an AMA on one of the channels and message one of the moderators to set the event up.

🍷 Slack etiquette

<aside> 💡 Please find our channel-specific guidelines here.

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