This is a Community for Professional Outliers

Welcome to a space for professionally impatient outliers and community members. Our forum is a shared resource — a place to share skills, knowledge, and interests through ongoing conversation.

These are not hard and fast rules but guidelines to aid the human judgment of our community and keep this a kind, friendly place for innovative public discourse.

Improve the Discussion

Help us make this a great place for discussion by always adding something positive, however small. If you’re unsure your post adds to the conversation, think it over and try again later.

Discover ongoing discussions before replying or starting your own. This increases your chances of meeting others who share your interests.

The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.

Your Participation Counts

The conversations we have here set the tone for every new arrival. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.

Discourse provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, watching, muting, and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.

Let’s leave our community better than we found it.

If You See a Problem, Flag It

Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.

When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. Replying encourages bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.

In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.

Always Be Respectful

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:

• Be respectful. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
• Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
• Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
• Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.

These are not concrete terms with precise definitions — avoid even the appearance of any of these things. If you’re unsure, ask yourself how you would feel if your post was featured on the front page of a major news site.

This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.

Keep It Tidy

Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:

• Don’t start a topic in the wrong category; please read the category definitions.
• Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
• Don’t post no-content replies.
• Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
• Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.

Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.

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This site is operated by your friendly moderator team and you, the community. If you have any further questions about how things should work here, open a new topic in IrregularChat Feedback and let’s discuss! If there’s a critical or urgent issue that can’t be handled by a meta topic or flag, contact the moderators.

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Community Wiki Context

Welcome to the IrregularChat Community of Interest (CoI), where diverse minds—tech enthusiasts, researchers, and innovators converge. The Irregular Chat CoI is a dynamic space to discuss the latest in technology, share knowledge, and collaborate on groundbreaking projects.

Embrace a spirit of professional impatience and be ready to break down silos!

Rules of Engagement

1. Respect all members. Don’t be disrespectful.
2. Leave your rank and ego at the door.
3. Stay on topic to maintain focus. Mark jokes and sarcasm with /j or /s
   • Do NOT joke about leaking or spilling classified information. Others will report this action to their S/G/J2.
4. Avoid sharing confidential, personally identifiable information (PII), or classified information. Encryption does not make it permissible.
   • Navigate content using the appropriate levels and direct users to relevant content locations.
5. Engage with the Wiki:
   • Utilize the wiki for resources. If you find gaps, fill them in and share them in the chat.
   • Notice inaccuracies or missing information? Lead the effort to correct and enhance it.
   • Encounter a missing page? Take the initiative to create it.

Getting Started

1. Engage: Participate in discussions, see announcements, and access resources - Irregular Chat Discussions.
2. Access Exclusive Content: Use your login for services and to access login-only wiki pages.

Tip: Our wiki is vast and continually evolving. Use the navigation on the left, the search bar, or the links below to explore topics of interest. Logged-in users can edit and create new pages, contributing to our collective knowledge.