note: all the documentation on this site is a work-in-progress.

Welcome

This is "Golden-Age Cabal", or just "Cabal".

Cabal is an open free marketplace of ideas, permitting anyone a haven for free expression.
Cabal is also the community of like-minded friends forged in that environment.

Cabal is, among other things, a pursuit to create a natural human trust-network from the ground up, under the belief that this, and related goals, are beneficial for our societies.

Permitting free expression carries the risk of censorship, to which we are not strangers, and in the face of which we shall not falter.

Cabal was established in 2016.

If Cabal disappears

Don't panic, censorship has always been a risk.
Visit uzalu's website ( uzalu.net ).
Try to rejoin Cabal ( cabal.uzalu.net ).
Check the backup venue ( guilded.uzalu.net ).

Inviting new members

Use http://cabal.uzalu.net to invite people to Cabal.
Some users may generate new invite links, platform-dependant.

Rules Summary

  • Cabal is a free marketplace of ideas, with minimal rules, applied with sensible decency.
  • Keep your posts in the right places, check the channel's description if you're uncertain.
  • If you break a rule, you'll be warned before being reprimanded, except for a few extreme things.

The actual rules are documented here.

Rules

We put free expression first, and quality communication second. To do this, some actions must be moderated.

The following sections detail these actions.

Summary

  • Cabal is a free marketplace of ideas, with minimal rules, applied with sensible decency.
  • Keep your posts in the right places, check the channel's description if you're uncertain.
  • If you break a rule, you'll be warned before being reprimanded, except for a few extreme things.

Non-consenting Sexual Exploitation

Underaged-human Sexualised Photography or Traces

Any material depicting a real-life child etc., which includes some implication of sexualisation, is prohibited.

  • Depicting: Any method to depict reality (such as photography) or to extract aspects of such methods, such as outlines (such as tracing). This may include non-visual formats.
  • Child etc.: Any human deemed likely to be younger than 18 years, or any human incapable of consent to participate in pornography in either of the UK or US.
  • Implication of Sexualisation: Any aspect of the material deemed likely to be intended by any provider of the material to invoke lust.

⚠️ Terminal: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning.
⚠️ Info-Hazard: Violating material is subject to deletion at any time.
⚠️ External: May apply to activity outside of Cabal.

Non-human Sexualised Depictions

Any material depicting a real-life non-human animal, which includes some implication of sexualisation, is prohibited.

  • Depicting: Any method to depict reality (such as photography) or to extract aspects of such methods, such as outlines (such as tracing). This may include non-visual formats.
  • Implication of Sexualisation: Any aspect of the material deemed likely to be intended by any provider of the material to invoke lust.

⚠️ Info-Hazard: Violating material is subject to deletion at any time.

Serious Crimes

Committing, or sincerely preparing to commit, a serious crime which physically-endangers other humans, such as murder, rape, child abuse, bombing, etc., except crimes for which a lawful sentence has been served, is prohibited.

⚠️ Terminal: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning.
⚠️ External: May apply to activity outside of Cabal.

Spam

Any action which non-trivially reduces the usability of any channel (text, voice, etc.), whether direct or indirect (such as via automated systems), including by posts or actions which are deemed to be any of the following, is prohibited.

  • Intentionally wasteful of space
  • Part of collective actions which amount to a violation
  • Able to cause technical usability problems, beyond client-side controls

Some channels permit Spam. Remember that Notification Abuse is a seperate rule.

⚠️ Terminal: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning.
⚠️ Info-Hazard: Violating material is subject to deletion at any time.

Doxing

Relaying real-life identifying info is prohibited, unless:

Relaying an alias is prohibited, unless:

Relaying non-identifying info about a subject, which was obtained through illicit means, is prohibited.

⚠️ Info-Hazard: Potentially-violating material is subject to deletion at any time.
⚠️ External: May apply to activity outside of Cabal.
⚠️ Public Interest: Does not apply when posting is likely to prevent non-trivial unethical actions, or create awareness of serious crimes.

In cases where there is no ambiguity that a post is doxing, primary identifying information is included, and it is deemed to be malicious:

⚠️ Terminal: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning.

Terms

Many of these definitions may require an official to make an arbitration on their applicability.

Post(ing/ed)

Displaying in any way which is viewable to the public, including via message, nickname, voice, third party, link, etc.

Identifying Info

Info of a type which, if it were accurate, would practically-measurably discriminate one person from another, such as account username, real name, address, phone number, house or vehicle description, etc., especially including info whose only purpose is identification.

Real-life Identifying Info

Identifying info which pertains to a person's real-life circumstances, such as real name, address, phone number, house or vehicle description, etc., including any account names which include any such information.

Subject

Any individual which info refers to, names, describes, locates, etc.

Relay(ing/ed)

Posting info which pertains to a subject other than the poster.

Volunteer(ing/ed)

  • Either:
    • Posted by the Subject
    • OR explicitly apparently-sincerely permitted by the subject to be posted by others
  • UNLESS the post or permission:
    • Is deemed a momentary accident
    • OR:
      • Occurred while the subject was under 18, otherwise incapable of adult consent, or if consent was coercive
      • AND It cannot be removed

Venue

The context in which these rules apply, for example a Discord server.

Alias

Any name used by a person, except their real-life name. This primarily refers to online account names.

Momentary Accident

Posting accidentally, where the error is in the realm of impulse control, lapse in memory, physical input mistake, etc., which was undone without hesitation, once noticed by the poster.

Trivially-inferred

Found by means of information which is easily-recognisably identical between two ostensibly-separate users, such as username, voice, etc. For a username, this can include simple transformations such as the removal of numbers, adding/removing blank characters, adhering the username to the format of a platform, etc. Inferences which reveal real-life identifying information may be challenged by an adjudicating officer for plausibility before they may be shared. Where possible, inferences of real-life identifying info should remain vague enough not to identify any fewer than roughly thousands of people, or, where applicable, roughly the size of a UK or US county.

Illicit Means

Means likely to violate justified UK or US law, or any rule of this venue, or using information which would count as doxing if it was posted in this venue.

Addenda

  • Real-life identifying info used as the primary online identity in this venue has, by the above definitions, been volunteered, and so relaying it is not restricted. Evidence of this volunteering may still be requested if the association is not obvious to the adjudicating officer.
  • Sincere attempts at doxing which use inaccurate information may be treated just as severely as if they had used accurate information. In fact, adjudicating officers should almost never care whether the information is accurate or not, only concerning themselves with the type of such information, as per the above definition.
  • As per the "info-hazard" tag on this rule, potentially-violating posts may be deleted before their illegality has been determined. It is an imposition upon users, therefore, to proactively prove the info they're posting abides by the rules, namely by posting the evidence of its legality alongside or nearby to every post which includes the info.
  • Some leniency may be applied to cases of doxing where the info has become widely-spread public knowledge, even if its original spread was also doxing. This only applies in cases where info about a public figure has spread in major publications and through other public figures to the point that attempting to retract the info would be futile.

Malicious Links

Any material directing users to specific material likely to cause tangible effects unintended by that user, such as viruses or blatant scams, is prohibited.

⚠️ Terminal: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning.
⚠️ Info-Hazard: Violating material is subject to deletion at any time.

Hacked Accounts

it is common for hacked accounts to post malicious links. In these cases, the account must not be kicked, banned, or demoted, but should be imprisoned.

Mischannelling

Posting material which does not abide by the requirements of the channel it is posted in, is prohibited.

NSFW

Some channels do not allow NSFW content, meaning anything Not Safe For Work.

This includes sexual material, disturbing material, or anything else 'adult' or not fit for polite company.

Discord

Always read the channel description before posting if you're unsure of the requirements of a channel.

Some channels are marked as NSFW in Discord's interface. Those which are not marked as NSFW do not allow any NSFW material.

Notification Abuse

Taking actions which produce notifications for users which are excessive in either their rate, their quantity, or their lack of meaningfulness, is prohibited.

Therefore, spam-pings are allowed, but only when deemed by the Cabal officials to be clearly well-founded per the above standards. Such cases will be very rare, and will usually only be those cases explicitly permitted by the Cabal officials.

Vicarious Violation

On many platforms, including Discord, regulation of the notification system is mostly handed-off to venue owners, thus they bear some responsibility for how their users use the system.

Thus, if a user abuses the system, they are not only personally responsible for the problem, but are also causing the server to be partially responsible for it.

This significantly increases the seriousness of the problem, and positively presents the need to prohibit these actions, even sometimes more harshly than the raw actions may seem to warrant.

Impersonation

Using profile components like name, image, etc. to attempt to appear to be a different person/profile/user, where deemed plausibly effective, is prohibited.

⚠️ Info-Hazard: Violating material is subject to deletion at any time.

Illustrated Underage Sexualisation

This policy has not been formally rewritten yet, but please see the original document introducing this policy below, which is still in effect.

⚠️ Info-Hazard: Violating material is subject to deletion at any time.


Work in Progress

Original Introductory Document

Originally posted 2023/04/03

While it doesn't bear explaining here why real pictures of child sexual exploitation are banned, the question of what to do with drawings depicting sexualised children is far more difficult.

I abhor to ban anything, even some things which disgust me. Many things I permit because I believe the freedom afforded by doing so is more important than preventing the potential harm of allowing them. Judging that balance is very difficult but life has a way of forcing one to make such decisions.

Drawings of children, implicitly or explicitly sexualised, are obviously disgusting to anyone without paedophillic tastes. There are, however, 2 mitigating points:

  • Unlike sexualised pictures of real children, illustrations do not necessarily require real-life sexual abuse of children to take place.
  • It could be argued that paedophiles can use illustrations of sexualised children as a sexual outlet, and are thus less likely to abuse real children. Given these factors, I have always had some hesitation about outright censoring such material.

However, our policy is firmly to disallow such material. What follows is the qualification and justification for this policy.

First, let us ensure we don't go too far. Many illustration styles, especially Japanese, often depict young people in the range of about 14-20 years old as indistinguishable age-wise from each other. Many such styles are also globally-popular and accepted. If, in the given style, the character could plausibly be 18, then generally assume they are. This often requires arbitration, and ambiguities must be dealt with carefully.

But if the character couldn't be older than 12, we have a problem.

When judging an illustration, consider these factors:

  • Does the illustration include a character which is clearly prepubescent?
  • Does the illustration seem to be intended to invoke lust?
  • Does the illustration focus on the form, state, or other precise details of the bodies of such characters?
  • Does the illustration feature suggestive objects or substances in interaction with them?
  • What is the degree of artistic abstraction? Are the body proportions realistic? The lighting? How much detail is included?
  • Could the illustration reasonably have been drawn by someone without paedophillic tastes? As before, making such determinations often requires arbitration, and ambiguities must be dealt with carefully. This is ultimately subjective, but in most cases, to most people, it is obvious.

The justification I have for this policy is not as categorical as I would prefer, and each of these points may not be a sufficient justification on their own, but together they reach just over the threshold of justification, in my opinion. The justification arises from these factors:

  • Anyone who creates, holds, or shares such material is likely to be a paedophile.
  • Some such material may be traced from real child sexual exploitation images. This is not sufficiently different than sharing the original. It is also nearly-impossible to determine.
  • Such material is illegal in many western nations. Unjust laws do not deserve respect, but this law is not clearly unjust, even if you may have misgivings about an entire nation restricting it. Either way, these laws pose a plausible danger of extreme consequences to some of our community's members, including its owner.

Discussion around this policy is welcome, but beyond some specifics, the policy is very unlikely to change.

A few additional points:

  • The given/canonical age of a character, be it 14 or 14,000, is usually not relevant.
  • Recognising an illustrator's attempt to sexualise something is not the same as finding it attractive. Similarly, understanding that a knife can be used to kill someone is not the same as actually stabbing someone to death. This equivocation is one of several tactics used to justify posting paedophillic content in general. All such tactics should be ignored, and result in severe suspicion of their user.
  • Deleting potentially offending content may (and often should) be done even before its legality is determined.
  • Posting a screenshot of the full message which includes potentially-disallowed material is allowed in the non-public moderation channel only, but should be deleted as soon as arbitration is complete.

Spoilers


Work in Progress

Leaking

Posting material from non-public channels in this venue into anywhere in which additional users/people can see the material compared to the source channel is prohibited.

You can identify non-public channels in Discord by the small lock icon on the hash to the left of the channel name.

⚠️ Info-Hazard: Violating material is subject to deletion at any time.
⚠️ Whistleblowing: Does not apply to posting evidence of misconduct by Cabal officials.

Evasion

Attempting to evade any tangible aspect of an official action, including shedding negative roles or permissions settings, or using alternative accounts after being banned, is prohibited.

⚠️ Terminal: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning.

Perjury

Making a false report of a rule violation to a Cabal official, deemed to be deliberately and knowingly-false, is prohibited.

⚠️ Terminal: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning.
⚠️ Info-Hazard: Potentially-violating material is subject to deletion at any time.

Censorship

Taking actions, including making threats, likely to reduce the effective free expression of a significant portion of Cabal's members for reasons outside the enforcement of our policies, including by the destruction of Cabal in part or in whole, or making credible threats to take actions likely to do so, is prohibited.

The apparent need for a threat (or similar information) to be publicised and spread before it would have this effect is not a valid cause for leniency.

⚠️ Public Interest: Does not apply when posting is likely to prevent non-trivial unethical actions, or create awareness of serious crimes.

Reports to the Platform hosting Cabal

Undue censorship of Cabal from the platform it's hosted on is a present concern.
Often the platform enforces standards which violate the free expression of Cabal's users.
Cabal's policies cover the actions which are valid to reprimand for.
Therefore, reports to the platform are always unjustifiable.

The only exceptions are cases where Cabal's policies are temporarily insufficient to cover actions which should be reprimanded for, but because Cabal's rules are never enforced retroactively, they won't be reprimanded for. In these cases, it is still not officially permitted to report to other authorities, but there may be leniency for those who do.

Reports to Law-enforcement

All the above does not apply to reports to law enforcement for justifiably-criminal acts. It is likely in these cases that we would also reprimand a user who takes such actions, so we ask that you report the infraction to Cabal's authorities as well.

Leeching

Taking actions which reduce Cabal's activity, using coercion or deception, especially by the false implication of official Cabal status or approval, is prohibited.

Treason

Violating any other rule, in a way deemed to be in aid of an entity hostile to Cabal, is prohibited.

⚠️ Terminal: Violators are subject to reprimand without warning.
⚠️ External: May apply to activity outside of Cabal.

Guarantees

Cabal officials must try to ensure all of the following guarantees are maintained at all times.

These include three main types:

  1. Standards for Moderators
  2. Liberties (Rights)
  3. Provisions (Positive Rights)

Violation of these Guarantees by any official may result in loss of Moderator status, and all users should vigilantly insist that these Guarantees are maintained.

Expression

Your opinions can never be the reason for any reprimand or censorship against you.

Free Expression will always be defended in Cabal, as a priority, even against outside forces.
Free Expression is hard to define, but the following points should make Cabal's position clearer:

  • Emotional offence is never a sufficient reason to censor anything.
  • Your mode of communication can be expression in and of itself (eg. offensive words/wording).
  • The seriousness of a statement shouldn't be a factor in deciding whether to censor it, except when assessing the potential for real-life danger.
  • Material which has a good chance of being dangerous in real life, or which is the result of serious crimes, or is intended as real-life intimidation, might be censored even if it is expression. This includes non-consenting sexual exploitation, viruses, blatant scams, credible threats, and some other common crimes.
  • Some areas (channels) are limited to a certain category of content. If material which doesn't match this requirement is posted, it may be removed, but this doesn't necessarily imply the material can't be posted elsewhere.
  • Some areas (channels) are curated. This is always explicitly stated. In these areas, treated as privileged platforms, your expression is not completely free, just like publishing in an art gallery, or writing a corporate communication.
  • There must always be at least one area of Cabal which has zero curation (the public square). If that area allows spamming, an additional area must be provided which doesn't (also the public square). This additional area may also disallow NSFW material.
  • In non-curated areas, your tone can never be the reason for any reprimand or censorship.
  • Free Expression benefits everyone, but the reason it needs to exist is not for those with popular opinions, it is for those with unpopular opinions. The defence of their expression should be even more intently ensured.
  • An environment of implicit or explicit disadvantage for merely expressing or holding certain opinions is unacceptable and must be broken, returning to a genuine free marketplace of ideas. This may except opinions which are widely physically repulsive, or cause or require danger, especially to children.
  • Users who have violated rules and are imprisoned may have their Free Expression reduced. There should always be somewhere they can appeal, wherein the general standards described on this page apply.
  • Attempting to evade reprimand for obvious rule violations by using an overly-literal interpretation of any of these points should not be expected to succeed.

Tutorialisation

Users who enter open venues of Cabal must be given basic access automatically and promptly, without being required to complete any procedure or task, including any agreement.

  • "Venues" are, for example, Discord servers. Wherever Cabal is instantiated.
  • "Basic access" includes (at minimum) read and write access to the public square channels.
  • "Promptly" means less than 10 seconds under normal circumstances, but this may be extended up to 30 minutes during emergencies. In these cases, affected users should be informed.
  • "Open" refers to any venue which does not implement a whitelist for technically joining, as distinct from a whitelist for gaining basic access. If a venue has a selection process for whitelist access, then there must be an open venue which is at least as prominent.

Visibility

In any non-curated channel, the visibility of different non-imprisoned users' posts must not be non-trivially different from each other.

Roles

Seniority Roles

Assigned based mostly on trust, these Roles are the main hierarchy of the community.

Click each role's name for more details.

NameSummary
Level 1Passes basic security check
Level 2Direct net-positive to the community
Level 3Respected and representative of the community
WatchmanTrusted information network, with mod powers for emergencies
ModeratorOfficers of the community, can arbitrate rule violations
AdminCommunity owner

Advice for Gaining Roles

The following things help in gaining roles:

  • Having a consistent, recognisable, comprehensible, and distinct identity (name and image)
  • Being active (interacting with the community), especially in voice channels
  • Being involved in community events, especially running them
  • Being charismatic, knowledgable, useful, or otherwise socially apt
  • Promoting the community/uzalu and/or bringing in new members
  • Demonstrating deep knowledge of community/uzalu's lore
  • Being tested by circumstance and performing well

In all these cases, your actions must be visible to senior members, who can recommend you for promotion.

Promotion to Level 3 almost always requires frequent voice interaction.


Work in progress

Enrolment

Any member at Level 3 can make proposals to adjust the roles of any user, between Levels 1 - 3. These proposals should be made in the dedicated Enrolment channel.

Proposals are only official and binding if they are one of the following:

  • Promotion (by one step) to Level 1, 2, or 3.
  • Demotion (by one step) from Level 1, 2, or 3.

The full details of the Official Proposals can be found below.

Other proposals are merely petitions, and not binding on the admin unless specified.

Any enrolment action can be made semi-anonymously by direct-messaging a moderator or the admin. Only the recipient of your message, and possibly also the admin, will be aware of who made the request.

Generally, vote/vetoes should never be overruled, and the reasons for them may remain confidential, though their existence and their author might not be confidential, depending on implementation. Some exceptions are detailed below.

The Weight of Roles

Demotions should not happen except as a result of rule violations. This is why the barrier to entry for an official demotion proposal is quite high.

Demoting a user when they haven't broken a rule is likely to engender a feeling of trivialisation of the investment of time and energy to gain their status, and thus erasure of the value of the hierarchy, which may lead to abandonment of the community.

Since demotions should be rare or as reprimand, promotion should never be considered easy to undo, or temporary. There is a heavy weight to all promotion proposals, but especially for Level 3, which grant the long-term privilege of singular veto power to the user.

Make sure you trust any user with the powers you are granting them.

This does not strongly apply to promotion to Level 1, since Level 1 only concerns security, and thus the only way such a promotion would be mistaken is if the user breaks a rule, which is a valid cause for demotion anyway.

Overruling Vetoes

The only valid reasons to overrule vetoes are those stated in the Official Proposals below, and they are very minimal.

If you do not like a result, your first instinct should be discussion, not overruling.

All Level 3 users are expected to be mature and reasonable people, who are capable of discussing matters, and potentially changing their mind. This is a requirement of the role, and anyone who doesn't match this should be demoted via an official proposal.

Those capable of this dignified conduct will always respond to disputes by opening discussion, and never with requests for undue authoritarian action.

Unresolvable Schisms

Where conflict cannot be resolved by any civil means, the admin should enact a resolution which tends towards inaction.

Ultimately, the admin has the power to overrule all other concerns, but this should only happen in emergencies, and may come at the cost of community trust.

Returning Users

The admin may apply roles to a user without a proposal if all of:

  • The user is an account replacing an old account which no longer has roles. (Mark it as an alt)
  • The roles being given are no higher than the old account had.
  • This action is logged where Level 3 users can see it.

This may be especially common for accounts banned by the platform, but not by this community, where the ban reason is unjust.

Role Decay

If a user with Level 3 is inactive for a period of 3 months, the admin may remove their Level 3 role.

This may be applied after the account becomes active again, but in that case should be applied within a few days.

This action should be logged, visible to all Level 3 users.
It is advisable to explain this to the demoted user, but that is at the admin's discretion.

Official Proposals

Promotion to Level 1

  • Fails with a single veto (votes in favour have no effect at all).
  • Open for 4 hours by default.
  • Propose this if the user seems to be human, and is generally acting as most users do.
  • Veto this only if available evidence suggests a security concern.
    • Do not veto if there is no specific evidence which suggests a security concern.
    • A security concern is a reasonable suspicion that the user might violate server rules.
    • To resolve conflicts, the Admin may require veto reasons to be stated, and may overrule vetoes if they do not match these requirements.
    • If there is minor such evidence, the proposal can be extended instead of vetoed. In these cases, only extend to 24 hours.
  • Should be granted to most users within 24 hours of activity.

Promotion to Level 2

  • Fails with a single veto (votes in favour have no effect at all).
  • Open for 24 hours by default.
  • Propose this if you think the user is a good addition to Cabal.
  • Veto this only if you believe the user is not a direct net-positive to the community, based on your direct encounters with them.
    • This excludes indirect benefit, such as with useful trolls.
    • Do not veto if you have had no direct encounters with the user.
    • Your evaluation may include the future value of the user (for example, if you suspect they are hiding their true intentions). In these cases, you should state your concerns.
    • To resolve conflicts, the Admin may require veto reasons to be stated, and may overrule vetoes if they do not match these requirements.
  • Include the requirements of Promotion to Level 1 (see above).
    • The user must have been Level 1 for at least a week.
  • Expected to be earned after about a month of activity.
  • Must not be granted less than a week after the user joins.

Promotion to Level 3

  • Fails with a single veto (votes in favour have no effect at all).
  • Open for 4 days by default.
  • Propose this if the user matches all of:
    • A worthy representative of the community.
    • Socially capable, dignified, and respected by a large portion of the community.
    • Clearly capable of being reasoned with, and persuaded by good arguments.
    • Has a consistent, recognisable, comprehensible, and distinct identity (name and image).
    • Frequently active in voice channels (exceptions permitted for users who have been active for more than two years).
  • Veto reasons may remain confidential, but should be made in respect of the above requirements.
  • Include the requirements of Promotion to Level 2 (see above).
    • The user must have been Level 2 for at least two weeks.
  • Expected to be earned after about 6 months of activity.
  • Must not be granted less than 2 months after the user joins.

Demotion from Level 1

  • Requires 3 votes in favour.
  • Requires 2 more votes in favour than votes against.
  • Open until vote counts stagnate.
  • You should only favour this if you would veto a proposal to promote this user to Level 1 (see above).
  • The same standards required to reject a promotion to Level 1 are required for this.

Demotion from Level 2

  • Requires 5 votes in favour.
  • Requires 3 more votes in favour than votes against.
  • Open until vote counts stagnate.
  • You should only favour this if you would veto a proposal to promote this user to Level 2 (see above).
  • The same standards required to reject a promotion to Level 2 are required for this.

Demotion from Level 3

  • Requires 10 votes in favour.
  • Requires 5 more votes in favour than votes against.
  • Open until vote counts stagnate.
  • You should only favour this if you would veto a proposal to promote this user to Level 3 (see above).

Watchmen (The Cabal Neighbourhood Watch)

The Watchmen are a trusted information network.

Watchmen do not wield any official authority, and are not Moderators of any kind.

Watchmen do possess some moderation powers, but are only allowed to use them during emergencies, to resolve the emergency. They must also actively inform Moderators and the Admin of the emergency.

Watchmen powers may be removed if they are used wrongly, or are consistently not used when they obviously should be.

Unlike Levels 1, 2, and 3, Watchmen may be granted or removed at the Admin's discretion, but only to a user with Level 3, gained legitimately.

Unlike Moderator, granting Watchman does not require the consent of the target user, since no responsibility is implied, though they should be made aware of the nature of the role (link this page to them). Reading this information is not required, though it is advisable to keep the role.

Watchmen also have access to the official server security discussion channel, and the equivalent voice channel.


Work in progress

Customisation Roles

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Customisation Roles require either Level 3, or being a Patron to uzalu.

These include colours and icons.
Custom colour roles are sometimes added on request, but usually an existing one is chosen if it's close to your request.

To acquire a Customisation Role, ask a Moderator or the Admin.
A system to automate this is planned.