# Community Etiquette **URL:** \ **Category:** Near Community and nodes\ **Created:** [August 11, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-etiquette/4417 "2021-08-11T20:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![David\_NEAR](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/gov.near.org/david_near/32/43414_2.png) [@David\_NEAR](https://gov.near.org/u/David_NEAR)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://gov.near.org/t/community-etiquette/4417/9 "2021-08-12T19:57:23Z")
Well put. There’s a lot left to be done in regards to nurturing the forum to ensure an open, transparent, and safe environment where **everyone** can thrive and feel empowered to make a positive change in the NEARverse. It’s still early days, but we’ve started making headway on this. - [Community guidelines](http://gov.near.org/t/implementing-near-community-guidelines/4200) have been updated - All new users who sign up to the Governance Forum will receive this as a DM upon account creation - Increased vigilance from myself and other mods. This doesn’t just pertain to message content, but to abuse of the systems which are in place (e.g reporting messages which clearly _are not_ spam as spam) Still plenty of work to be done, and I’d love to see more discussion around this in this thread, for sure. > [@illia](#): > > I suggest we take a 1-notice policy: > > - if someone is clearly violating the rules, it gets a notice from community member, linking to this Etiquette post. > - if they continue offensive / destructive behavior - they get banned. Agreed. We can get the guidelines updated to reflect this, unless anybody has an alternative in mind? On a more positive note, the future is looking bright - LFG (let’s **flipping** go)! --- _[View the full topic](https://gov.near.org/t/community-etiquette/4417)._