Moderation & Community Management

General Guidelines

On our social media pages and accounts we moderate with a light touch generally, but harder if required - we have a zero-tolerance approach to swearing in order to create an inclusive safe space for all and all swearing is hidden.

We welcome debate and criticism of the movement both from the general public and from within, and don’t delete critical content. We attempt to maintain a regenerative space and do not believe in censorship as we learn and grow from debate, criticism and reflection.

We hide comments that are rude, offensive or ad hominem attacks. We ban anyone who makes abusive and rude remarks (i.e death threats, threats of harm to others etc), or anyone who spams the pages (continuously) with irrelevant links or material, or anyone obviously trolling.

Facebook Groups

Facebook has built a set of tools to help admins and moderators of groups manage posts and members. We suggest that you set up some ground rules, as well as questions for people who'd like to join in (this is a good way to filter trolls out, especially if your group is a private one).

1. XR Principles: We strongly encourage group members to adhere to Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) core demands, and their principles and values (available at https://rebellion.earth and under the “who we are” link there).
2. Focus of group: This group is specifically for XR related news, actions events and solidarity shout outs, and to grow the XR community. It is not a space for general news, petitions and discussions. (this rule can be amended for whatever your group’s focus is).
3. No hate speech, shaming or bullying: Everyone is welcome. Bullying of any kind isn’t allowed. Antisemitic, derogatory and or undermining comments about race, ability, religion, background, culture, sexual orientation, gender, or identity will not be tolerated.
4. Extremism: The climate crisis is an existential threat so passion is to be expected, but XR will not tolerate extremist posts and are strictly non-violent.
5. Be kind and courteous: We’re all in this together to create a welcoming environment. Treat everyone with respect. Aggression of any kind will not be tolerated.
6. Language: This is a community space so swearing is discouraged in comments and disallowed in posts. XR reserves the right to delete content that transgresses this rule.
7. Privacy: Please respect every group member’s privacy. What is discussed between members in the group should remain in the group.
8. Responsibility for posts: XR does not take responsibility for what group members post but will moderate according to XR guidelines to the best of its ability.
9. No spam or self-promotion: Self-promotion, spam, and irrelevant links & other content are not allowed and may be deleted.
10. No Ad Hominem attacks: When discussing posts and comments, please focus on the facts of the argument you are making and not on the poster or commenters in a personal way.
11. Adherence to these rules: The admins and moderators reserve the right to delete content or remove people who breach any of the above rules.

Examples of group joining questions:

• Question 1: Will you abide by the group’s rules as laid out in the “rules” section?
• Question 2: Do you agree to abide by the demands and principles of Extinction Rebellion as laid out on their website?