Community Guidelines

Community Guidelines

Thanks for stopping by to read these guidelines. We wrote these in order to come together and agree upon a set of community values so that we can grow together as a team, have meaningful discussions about Machine Learning and still allow room for having loads of fun.

These are all things we strongly believe in and hope you do too.

We are a community of learners

• If someone asks for help, teach them to fish. The person should have already watched the video, and Googled a bit, so assume they’ve tried and are stuck. You can start by saying, “tell me what you do understand, and at what part you’re getting stuck.” Then work from there
• Please do not give out code related to projects as this violates Udacity's honor code.

Slack Etiquette

• If you have a question, ask! The caveat is that you should have made some effort to research your problem before asking for help.
• When you want to ask someone a specific question, use the @member method to ask the person a direct question in the appropriate channel. We prefer members to use @member method vs direct messaging because this encourages community participation. Your question will often spark a public conversation that is beneficial to everyone involved.
• Direct Messaging should only be used for private information or purely personal conversation.
• Do not use the @channel tag. It notifies everyone, and it’s never appropriate. Unfortunately we cannot disable this
• Using @here is totally ok, as long as you have a relevant announcement or important question. Please use good judgement, @here does notify people who are currently signed into slack
• Please keep discussions in the correct channels. This may seem a little strange at first, having two simultaneous conversations with the same people in two separate channels, but the reality is that it helps people’s ideas be heard. The chat moves quickly, if we have multiple topics in one channel, it’s very difficult to discuss anything
• If you are discussing something, and someone suggests you move to one of the other channels, it’s probably a good idea, don't worry most of the time we all follow each other into other channels.
• Please refrain from using any swear or cuss words.

A few things to consider

• Everyone in the MLND comes from different backgrounds, education, family (married, kids, single, student, retired), so please don’t make assumptions about others and be kind and respectful to everyone
• Disagreeing is OK! And in fact it’s encouraged. We want productive discussions so we can all learn and get different perspectives. Just be polite and respectful
• Should you at any time use the term optimize or any of it's variants, be sure to enclose it in asterisks*, so it is bolded. You'll feel like part of the gang in no time!
• Should the need arise (as it so often does) to say something sarcastic, use official sarcasm punctuation ~. for dry sarcasm. ~! for enthusiastic sarcasm. And ~? for sarcastic/rhetorical questions

BE NICE! Really.