slack-etiquette.md

AsyncAPI Community uses Slack for real-time conversations. It helps us stay closer to each other and to know each other better. Join us by following this invitation and the following etiquette:

• Respect each other. Choose empathy over judgement. Act according to the AsyncAPI Code of Conduct
• Run discussions in threads. Every single message in the main thread triggers a notification. Another message triggers another notification. Let's not ping each other when it is not necessary. It is the main cause for people to mute channels. Always reply to a message in a thread.
• Avoid using @channel and @here unless the description of a given channel specifically allows it.
• Once you post a message with links, remove generated previews. Leave them only if they add some more context to the message.
• Channels with N_ prefix (for example, 1_ or 10_) are considered to be officially maintained because they are always mentioned in the welcome message for new joiners, and project contributors and committers (maintainers) are always encouraged to join them.
• If you need a dedicated channel for some discussion, feel free to create it but don't use numeric prefixes that are only allowed for officially maintained channels.
• Do not add or use flashing, blinking, and flickering emojis/gifs that can lead to photosensitive epilepsy.
• Once you decide to mute a channel, we encourage you to configure alerts for discussions that are still interesting for you. We do not want to lose your input. Go to Settings -> Notifications -> My keywords section. How does it work? If you are in our Slack because of Kafka, mute the channel if it is too noisy and set a notification to ping you only if kafka is mentioned in the message. For more details read this article.