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Update community guidelines to prohibit DM solicitation #100

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Expand Up @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ Some examples of inappropriate behaviour:

* Judging the question or the person asking the question ("this is a stupid questions and everyone who can read docs knows the answer")
* Soliciting any kind of personal information (such as marital status, sexual orientation, phone number, address, income, etc)
* Asking for personal or professional details in DM (such as location, current job, or skills)
* Asking people to share their profiles (such as LinkedIn or Upwork)
* Offering collaboration in DM without prior public communication
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease


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Note that promoting yourself and your services is also a promotion. For example, mass-sending your
CVs in DMs is also considered unsolicited promotion, and the same rules apply.

Offering collaboration in DMs without having prior public communication is also not allowed. If you want to collaborate with someone,
first engage with them in public channels before reaching out via DM.


### Non-relevant promotions

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