Community Guidelines

1. Where these guidelines apply

These guidelines govern all Codritium-operated community spaces, including:

The Codritium Discord server.
On-platform comments, profile content, and replay annotations.
The contributor program and panel reviews.
Any other Codritium-branded community surface we operate, present or future.

Conduct using a Codritium handle in public spaces we do not operate (for example, on social media) is outside our jurisdiction, but material conduct that brings the Service or other members into harm may still affect your standing on Codritium.

2. Our commitments to you

We will moderate consistently and explain the reasoning behind notable decisions in public when feasible.
We will rotate panel reviewers and publish inter-rater agreement metrics on the certification track.
We will not use moderation to silence good-faith engineering disagreement, including disagreement with our own decisions.

3. What we expect from you

Be specific. Bring traces, diffs, reproducible examples. The platform is for working engineers; treat it like a working environment.
Disagree on the engineering, not the person. Strong opinions are welcome. Personal attacks are not.
Credit other engineers' work when you build on it — citations, links, or a clear "from X" attribution.
Disclose AI usage in any code or analysis you post for review. We are an AI-assisted engineering platform; pretending you wrote what the model wrote undermines the community.

4. What is encouraged

Sharing your own replays with your annotations.
Asking for review on hard decisions, not on finished code — the community is most useful upstream of the submit button.
Posting detailed post-mortems of bugs you fixed, security issues you found, or refactors that worked (and that didn't).
Volunteering as a panel reviewer or contributor once you have completed enough challenges to be credentialed.

5. What is prohibited

Engaging in any of the following may result in content removal, suspension, or termination of your account:

Harassment, threats, doxing, or hate. No attacks based on identity, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or any other protected characteristic.
Posting other members' replays, code, or messages without consent.
Bulk extraction or resale of challenge content, solutions, rubrics, or scoring criteria.
Sharing certification exam content, model answers, or rubric exploitation strategies in any channel.
Impersonating a credentialed engineer, a Codritium panel member, or any Codritium staff member.
Spam, off-topic recruiting, or coordinated promotion — including AI-generated content posted at scale without contribution.
Sharing malware, exploits, or attack payloads outside the scope of a clearly authorised security challenge or coordinated disclosure.
NSFW content, sexual content involving minors, or content that violates applicable law. Codritium has zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation content; we report and remove on detection.
Circumventing moderation — including ban evasion, alt-account creation, or coordinated rule-skirting.

6. Replays and submitted work

Replays are personal artefacts. By default, your replays are visible only to you, your panel reviewers (where you have submitted to a proctored track), and Codritium staff acting in a moderation or operations role. You may opt to make individual replays public; you may not share another member's replay without that member's express consent, even if you have legitimate access to it through a contributor or reviewer role.

7. Reporting

Report a violation of these guidelines by:

Using the in-channel report action where available.
Emailing hello@codritium.com with the subject prefix [community].
For urgent or safety-related reports, emailing security@codritium.com.

Reports are treated confidentially. We will not share the identity of a reporter with the subject of a report unless required by law.

8. Moderation process

Moderation is performed by working engineers on a rotating panel, not by a separate community team. The escalation path is:

First-level review by a duty moderator who triages and takes any reversible action (remove a message, mute, warn).
Panel review for any action that is not immediately reversible — typically suspensions of 7+ days, permanent bans, or revocation of a credential. Panel decisions are made by at least two moderators.
Public notes for decisions that establish a precedent. We publish a short summary of why the decision was made (without identifying the parties) where it is in the community's interest to do so.

9. Sanctions

Sanctions are scaled to the severity and pattern of conduct:

Warning — recorded against the account, no public notice.
Temporary mute or suspension — for repeat or moderate breaches, typically 24 hours to 30 days.
Permanent ban — for severe breaches, repeated breaches after suspension, or any of the zero-tolerance categories in §5.
Credential revocation — where conduct undermines a credential we have issued. Revoked credentials may be re-earned by retaking the certification under the published policy.

10. Appeals

You may appeal any sanction by replying to the moderation notice within 14 days, or by emailing hello@codritium.com with the subject prefix [appeal]. Appeals are reviewed by a moderator who did not make the original decision; we aim to respond within 10 business days. Appeals do not automatically pause the sanction.

11. Copyright and DMCA-style takedowns

If you believe content on Codritium-operated spaces infringes your copyright, please email dmca@codritium.com with:

A description of the copyrighted work you believe is infringed.
The exact location (URL, channel, message) of the alleged infringement.
Your contact information.
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised and that the information in the notice is accurate.
Your signature (electronic is acceptable).

We will respond promptly. We accept counter-notices using the same process. Materially false notices may be referred to your account provider or to law enforcement.

12. Changes to these guidelines

We may revise these guidelines as the community grows. Material changes are announced in the Discord and on the website at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued participation after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

13. Contact

Community questions: hello@codritium.com. Privacy and safety: privacy@codritium.com. Copyright takedowns: dmca@codritium.com.

Questions about this document? Reach us at hello@codritium.com. For all other enquiries see our contact page.