Community Guidelines

To keep this community valuable for everyone, please follow these guidelines:

Be Respectful

  • We welcome creatives from all backgrounds and experience levels
  • Hate speech, discriminatory behavior, harassment, bullying, or personal attacks will not be tolerated
  • Treat fellow members with professionalism and respect
  • Keep disagreements constructive and focused on ideas, not individuals

Keep It Relevant

  • Keep discussions focused on creative work, storytelling, entertainment, media, and professional development
  • Avoid unrelated content, excessive off-topic discussions, or chain messages

No Politics or Activism

  • This is not a space for political debates, campaigning, lobbying, or organizing political or social movements
  • Let’s keep the focus on creativity, collaboration, and community

No Spam

  • Share your work, but avoid repetitive promotional posts
  • Do not flood the chat with links, advertisements, or repeated messages
  • Quality over quantity

No Unsolicited Sales or Recruiting

  • Do not pitch services, products, courses, investments, or businesses to members unless they have expressed interest
  • No MLMs, crypto promotions, fundraising solicitations, or unrelated sales pitches
  • Please do not use member information for marketing purposes
  • Please do not send unsolicited promotional direct messages to community members

Opportunities & Collaborations

  • Be transparent when posting jobs, casting calls, crew calls, workshops, or events
  • Clearly communicate compensation when possible
  • If a role is unpaid, deferred, volunteer, or profit-share, please state that clearly
  • Treat fellow members professionally

Respect Privacy & Creative Work

  • Do not share another member’s personal information without their permission
  • Respect intellectual property and properly credit collaborators
  • Do not share private conversations, scripts, recordings, or unpublished work without consent

Community Disclaimer

  • Members may share events, workshops, screenings, networking opportunities, and collaborations
  • The Artist Network does not vet, endorse, organize, supervise, or guarantee any member-posted event, opportunity, collaboration, or business arrangement unless explicitly stated otherwise
  • Participation in any event, collaboration, or business arrangement is at your own discretion and risk

Moderation

  • Moderators may remove posts or members that repeatedly violate these guidelines or negatively impact the community
  • Our goal is to maintain a welcoming, professional, and collaborative environment

Be generous with your knowledge, support fellow creatives, and help build a community where great stories and collaborations can thrive.