Water Cooler Guidelines

Thanks for your interest in joining us on Slack!

We created the Water Cooler for freelancers and solopreneurs to talk shop with peers, connect with folks they meet at Work Friends events, find collaborators, and make up for some of the camaraderie lost without an office environment. The main intention behind this channel is to enable friendships, collaborations, and for professionals to prop each other up. With that in mind, we've developed the following guidelines:

1. Be kind, courteous, and respectful.

No hate speech or bullying of any kind will be tolerated, and will result in immediate removal from community digital channels and events.

2. Be mindful of what you share publicly.

While you are welcome to vent and share frustrations you are facing in your work, be discerning in how you do so and remember that there is no guarantee of privacy. - In a digital forum, anything you say could be misinterpreted and shared with someone unintended.

3. No public or private unsolicited selling or public requesting to be connected to cold contacts.

Members of the group may introduce themselves and their business upon joining the group and may respond to requests for recommendations. Beyond that folks may not directly post in the channels looking for leads, contacts, or work opportunities. The purpose of the community is for the individuals within it to build relationships with each other. As you get to know each other, you may privately make introductions as you see fit.

4. Acceptable Use Policy

Your permission to use the Services is conditioned upon adhering to the following policy

You agree that you will not under any circumstances:

a. post any information that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libelous, or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise objectionable and offensive;

b. use the service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities;

c. attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group;

d. use another user’s account without permission;

e. provide false or inaccurate information or impersonate another person when registering an account;

f. interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Service;

g. make any automated use of the system, or take any action that we deem to impose or to potentially impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our servers or network infrastructure;

h. use the Site or any of its contents to advertise or solicit, for any commercial purpose or to compete, directly or indirectly, with our Service;

i. bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Service or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Service or harvest or manipulate data; or

j. publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser or computer.