Code of conduct (Community guidelines)
Audiotool is a creative, welcoming, supportive and knowledge sharing community. Our mission is to democratise music production providing a freely available music studio in your browser. We strive to be a community sharing the love for music. We respect diversity and other people's opinions and make everybody feel welcome and comfortable. This can only work if we all operate on a shared set of rules.
Rule #1
Personal attacks, harassing and making people uncomfortable are strictly forbidden. Audiotool is a community for people which every human being has the right to use free of harassment and bullying. Remember: we respect each other. Users promoting hate will be banned.
Rule #2
Discriminating against other users based on gender, political or religious beliefs, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, etc. is strictly forbidden. Users promoting hate will be banned.
Rule #3
Indoctrination of other users in terms of religion, beliefs and ideology - Audiotool is a place for creative people. You don't have to discuss your beliefs here, better go and make music.
Rule #4
Copyright infringement is not tolerated. Your content (samples, drafts, tracks, pictures) shall not violate the rights of any third party, including but not limited to: copyrights, trademark rights and/or any other intellectual property rights. This means: You have to own the rights to samples and any other material you upload to and use on Audiotool. Check terms for more info.
Rule #5
Uploading or linking to any pornographic, racist or otherwise disturbing material is a no-go. This is supposed to be a safe place. Please keep it that way.
Rule #6
Spamming is unacceptable and annoying to every user. Please refrain from spamming the walls of other users and keep your self promotion to a decent level. We strongly appreciate the following behaviour:
- be nice
- be helpful
- be respectful
- be reasonable
- be empathetic and easygoing
- be willing to learn and share ideas
- Asking you in a friendly way to stop doing it
- Asking you in a less friendly way to stop doing it
- Removal of content (e.g. deleting tracks, samples, comments)
- Permanent or temporary suspension of accounts
- Removal of privileges (e.g. sample upload) from accounts
If someone repeatedly violates our rules, our enforcement measures become stricter. If someone continues to violate the rules beyond a certain point, the account will be permanently banned. Also see https://www.audiotool.com/terms #7 With this in mind, we welcome you to Audiotool ♥︎
