Friends of Captain Awkward

The code of conduct applies to all of us, including the admodteam, carbonated wit and Captain Awkward. If someone on the team is accused they will be temporarily removed from dealing with harassment cases until the case is investigated. In short the possible punishments vary from a warning to temp b...

The Friends of Captain Awkward community (FOCA) is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for anyone. Harassment of participants in any form is not tolerated, no matter a person's gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, sex work, age, disability, physical appearance,...

Harassment includes but is not limited to: * Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, age or sex work. * Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle...

Currently, we keep reports completely secret - even just the fact that a report has been made is not mentioned unless we have no other option. This means that confidentiality is complete, and that nobody who wants to make a report needs to worry about anyone guessing it was them. It also means that ...

I like the idea! Let me check with the team if we can implement it.

Hey, y'all! This is a quick reminder that offering advice in Jedi Hugs is a no go. We haven't seen many people outright giving advice. That's good, but these ”send me a PM if you want, I've got thoughts” comments aren't much better. Getting advice when you are asking for support is stressful. Often...

Great question! Here's a quick job description: The job consists of looking at PM reports coming in, believing people about their experiences and working as much as possible on spotting tricky behaviour and preventing further harassment. For instance you may keep a file on a user that has displayed ...

Hi everybody! Thanks for the feedback and for hanging in there! We've inching closer and closer to a final product. We've decided on a ombudsperson for anything harassment-related. If you're unhappy about a decision, take it up with The_Other_Alice. We are calling for interested people in this threa...

So you wanna in the anti-harassment-team? Great! Welcome, welcome! We want as diverse a team as possible. Therefore we've made up a list of information we want. Here's what we want to know about you: * Your time zone. * Any privilege and any special triggers. * Your pronoun/gender. * Your age and ra...

Hi everyone! We're nearly there, just this last question to get things finished. Perhaps we haven't been as clear as we should or could have been. We think it's really important that anti-harassment efforts be user led. We really don't want this to be a thing we do and you agree you're happy about u...