system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

# Code of Conduct

## 🤝 Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

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## 📜 Our Standards

### ✅ Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment:

* Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
* Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
* Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
* Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes
* Focusing on what is best for the overall community
* Using welcoming and inclusive language
* Being patient with new contributors
* Respecting intellectual property and giving proper attribution
* Following ethical guidelines when extracting and sharing prompts

### ❌ Examples of unacceptable behavior:

* The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
* Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
* Public or private harassment
* Publishing others' private information without explicit permission
* Sharing proprietary information obtained through unauthorized means
* Violating terms of service to obtain prompts
* Hacking or unauthorized access to systems
* Misrepresenting sources or taking credit for others' work
* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

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## 🔒 Ethical Guidelines for This Repository

In addition to general conduct standards, we have specific ethical guidelines for handling AI tool prompts:

### ✅ DO:
* Only share prompts obtained legally and ethically
* Clearly document the source of all materials
* Respect intellectual property rights
* Use fair use principles (education, research, commentary)
* Ask permission when possible
* Give proper attribution
* Follow contribution guidelines
* Report violations

### ❌ DON'T:
* Share proprietary information obtained through hacking
* Violate terms of service to extract prompts
* Misrepresent the source of materials
* Remove or alter copyright notices
* Use materials in ways that harm the original creators
* Share confidential information
* Engage in unauthorized access

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## 👮 Enforcement Responsibilities

Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

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## 🌍 Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, including:
* GitHub repository (issues, PRs, discussions)
* Discord server
* Social media (when representing the project)
* In-person events (if any)
* Any other community forums

This Code of Conduct also applies when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces.

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## 📢 Enforcement

### Reporting

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at:

* **Email:** [maintainer email]
* **Discord:** Private message to moderators
* **GitHub:** Report via issue (if comfortable) or private contact

All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

### Confidentiality

All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

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## ⚖️ Enforcement Guidelines

Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

### 1. Correction

**Community Impact:** Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome.

**Consequence:** A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

### 2. Warning

**Community Impact:** A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

**Consequence:** A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

### 3. Temporary Ban

**Community Impact:** A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.

**Consequence:** A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

### 4. Permanent Ban

**Community Impact:** Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

**Consequence:** A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

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## 🚨 Specific Violations for This Repository

### Immediate Ban Offenses:

* **Unauthorized Access:** Hacking or gaining unauthorized access to systems to obtain prompts
* **Terms of Service Violations:** Deliberately violating ToS to extract information
* **Sharing Stolen Data:** Publishing proprietary information obtained illegally
* **Impersonation:** Pretending to be a tool vendor or other contributor
* **Malicious Code:** Submitting code intended to harm users or systems

### Warning → Ban Progression:

* **Misattribution:** Claiming others' work as your own
* **Poor Quality Submissions:** Repeatedly submitting incomplete or inaccurate information
* **Spam:** Excessive self-promotion or off-topic posts
* **Disrespect:** Dismissive or rude behavior toward contributors

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## 🛡️ Protecting Intellectual Property

### Our Commitment:

While this repository documents AI tool prompts, we are committed to:
* Respecting intellectual property rights
* Operating within fair use principles
* Removing content upon valid DMCA requests
* Not encouraging illegal activity
* Providing educational value

### DMCA Notice:

If you believe content in this repository violates your copyright:
1. Send a DMCA notice to [contact email]
2. Include: Your contact info, description of work, location in repo, good faith statement
3. We will review and respond within 7 days
4. Content may be removed while under review

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## 🎓 Educational Purpose

This repository exists for:
* **Education** - Learning about AI prompt engineering
* **Research** - Academic study of AI systems
* **Comparison** - Understanding different approaches
* **Documentation** - Preserving knowledge
* **Community** - Sharing insights

We do **not** encourage:
* Violating terms of service
* Unauthorized access
* Stealing proprietary information
* Commercial exploitation without permission

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## 📚 Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org), version 2.1, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html.

Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by [Mozilla's code of conduct enforcement ladder](https://github.com/mozilla/diversity).

For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see the FAQ at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq. Translations are available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations.

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## 🔄 Updates

This Code of Conduct may be updated periodically. We will:
* Announce major changes
* Maintain version history
* Accept feedback on improvements

**Current Version:** 1.0  
**Last Updated:** 2025-01-02

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## ✅ Agreement

By participating in this repository, you agree to abide by this Code of Conduct and our ethical guidelines.

Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, respectful community! 🙏

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## 📞 Contact

* **General Questions:** GitHub Discussions
* **Code of Conduct Reports:** [private contact method]
* **DMCA Notices:** [legal contact]
* **Other Issues:** GitHub Issues

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*This Code of Conduct applies to all contributors, maintainers, and community members.*