Carbon Language community transparency report through 2026-06-30

[CelineausBerlin]

The Carbon community works to be welcoming and kind among itself and to others, with a deep commitment to psychological safety. And we want to ensure that doesn’t change as we grow and evolve. To that end, we have a few ground rules that we ask all community members to adhere to:

• be welcoming,
• be friendly and patient,
• be considerate,
• be kind,
• be careful in the words that we choose,
• when we disagree, try to understand why, and
• recognize when progress has stopped, and take a step back.

The following summary is intended to help the community understand what kinds of Code of Conduct incidents were brought to our attention lately, and how we dealt with them.

Publishing such transparency reports on a regular basis is helping us track progress and hold ourselves accountable to high standards of community culture.

Summary

The second quarter of 2026 was fairly peaceful in our spaces, and our AutoMod bots didn’t have much filtering to do either.

We continued to welcome new contributors on GitHub, reaching 193 contributors as of 2026-06-30, and 4,720 members on our Discord server.

To help with moderation and potential conduct issues, we could count on 11 trained people, including our community lead, whose role is guiding, training and coaching the team.
Our moderation and conduct team members are located in 3 different continents.

Our AutoMod bots are helping us on Discord, automatically catching the use of some harmful language and spam. The idea of having helping bots is to be able to focus on the educational and conversational part of our moderation role, and automate what does not need a human to be taken adequate care of. Indeed, some things are best taken care of by our carefully crafted AutoMod bots, and some by us, humans. So, we are keeping in check what the right balance between automated and manual moderation is, and are making adjustments along the way when appropriate.

Please note that some incidents may have escaped our attention. You can help us keep our spaces welcoming and fostering a spirit of collaboration, and report any situation that may require our intervention:
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Our interventions from 2026-04-01 through 2026-06-30

In Q2 2026, our Discord AutoMod bots filtered out 7 messages containing Discord links. Six of them were spam attempts.

There were a couple people joining our Discord server to seek employment unrelated to our work on the Carbon language. As made explicit in our updated community rules, such messages are off-topic and were deleted. This time around, it applied to 2 users’ messages: the first user was warned, while the second was banned after disregarding these rules repeatedly.

On GitHub, we hid a series of comments, issues, and discussions by a single user: some of which were duplicate, and others had no identifiable added value.

Other activity

While reviewing duplicate and/or possibly AI-generated posts, we resumed discussing upcoming standards for using LLMs to contribute to the Carbon project. This conversation is still on-going.

Finally, we kept our internal learning activities up, learning more about the TypeScript community journey and the challenges they faced along the way.

Closing observations

2026 is still going peacefully for us in the Carbon community. Our community size seems fairly stable at this point, and self-moderation is going well.
We remain committed to getting ready for our first release, and to providing a safe and welcoming environment for newcomers as much as possible.

We’ll keep watching and providing support when needed. We are always thrilled to welcome new contributing members, and we’ll make sure our spaces keep tidy and safe for all interested members to join the conversation.

Thank you all for your contributions, and see you soon!

The Carbon Code of Conduct team, 2026-07-17