Standards for respectful, safe participation on the Puget Sound Mutual Aid Group site.
Last Updated: April 4, 2026
These guidelines apply to comments, profile activity, messages sent through site forms, and any other participation tied to a PSMAG account. If you use account features on this site, you are expected to follow these standards.
Use this space to support real community connection, mutual aid, and useful discussion. Participate honestly and avoid behavior meant to provoke, derail, or exhaust other people.
Do not harass, bully, threaten, intimidate, or demean other people. Slurs, hate speech, targeted abuse, and repeated antagonistic behavior are not allowed.
Do not post anyone else's private information without clear permission. That includes addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, legal names, workplace details, medical information, and identifying photos of people who have not agreed to be posted.
Do not use the site for spam, fraudulent requests, phishing, commercial promotion unrelated to mutual aid, or attempts to exploit people in crisis. If you are asking for support or offering resources, be truthful about what you need or can provide.
Do not pretend to be another person, organization, or moderator. Do not create misleading usernames or profiles intended to confuse others about who you are.
Do not post illegal content, explicit threats of violence, malicious code, doxxing material, or content that infringes someone else's rights. Keep posts reasonably related to community support, organizing, site discussion, or the topic at hand.
We may remove content, issue warnings, limit features, or suspend accounts when activity appears to violate these guidelines, the Terms of Service, or site safety needs. We may also act when behavior creates legal, security, or operational risk even if a scenario is not listed here word-for-word.
If you see content that appears harmful, abusive, deceptive, or unsafe, contact us at contact@psma-wa.org. Include enough detail for us to review the issue.
We may revise these guidelines as the site grows. If we make meaningful changes, we may ask logged-in users to review and accept the updated version before continuing to use account features.
These guidelines are a practical moderation baseline for this site. They are meant to protect participants, reduce abuse, and keep the space usable for mutual aid work.