myGeeKySignals terms
- Your beacon is public: your status, your interest tags and the calls you post can be read by anyone.
- Be kind and honest: no harassment, hate, threats, spam, scams, sexual content or anything illegal.
- Never post someone else's private information.
- You can block anyone, and report a beacon to GitHub or to support@mygeeky.org.
- A beacon that breaks these rules is hidden from everyone's myGeeKy.
What Signals is
Signals lets myGeeKy users send each other small private signals (🙏 thanks, 📚 learned from your work, ⭐ used your
work, 👀 following your work, 🤝 let's collaborate) and post calls for contributors for their own public
repositories. It is optional. Everything lives in each person's own public GitHub repository, called a
beacon (mygeeky-beacon); there is no myGeeKy server. Signals themselves are encrypted so that
only the person they're sent to can read them. How this works, and what it stores, is in the
privacy policy.
When you agree
myGeeKy asks you to agree to these terms before you turn Signals on (on your computer or your phone) and before you post a call for contributors. If the terms change, the date above changes and myGeeKy asks again. You can stop at any time: turn Signals off, or leave it and withdraw your beacon (⚙ on the computer).
What you may not post
This covers your status, your interest tags, the notes in your calls, the names of the repositories you point to, and anything else your beacon carries.
- Harassment, bullying, threats, or hate against anyone, including for their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age.
- Sexual content, or anything that sexualises minors.
- Spam, scams, phishing, malware, or calls that aren't really for contributors (advertising, recruiting for something else).
- Someone else's private information (an address, a phone number, an ID, private messages), or pretending to be someone else.
- Anything illegal, or that breaks GitHub's Acceptable Use Policies (your beacon is a GitHub repository, so GitHub's rules apply to it too).
Be a good neighbour
- Signals are small and expect no reply. Don't send many to the same person; myGeeKy limits how many you can send a day and a week.
- A call for contributors is for one of your own public repositories, with an honest note about what help you need, the level and the time it takes. Close it when it's filled.
Blocking and reporting
- Block anyone from their card: their signals, calls and dot stop showing to you. The list stays on your device; they are not told.
- Report opens GitHub's own abuse form for that person, because what they post lives in their GitHub beacon. You can also write to support@mygeeky.org with their GitHub login and what happened.
What happens when someone breaks these terms
Reports to support@mygeeky.org are read by myGeeKy's maker. A beacon that breaks these terms is added to the hidden list in myGeeKy's public curated lists: every copy of myGeeKy then stops showing that person's beacon, signals and calls, usually within a day. We may also report it to GitHub. myGeeKy can't delete anyone's repository: only its owner and GitHub can.
Questions
Email support@mygeeky.org or ask in the myGeeKy issues.