Community Guidelines

We want Hey Colleagues to reflect the best version of professional life. This is a community where we treat each other with respect and help each other succeed.

Hey Colleagues Professional Community Policies

Thank you for using Hey Colleagues, where the world’s professional software developers come together to stay informed, learn new skills, and build productive relationships. Together we can make our community a place where everyone is able to learn, grow, and communicate, which, in turn, helps create economic opportunity for everyone.

Tell Us If You See Abusive Content

If you see something you believe may violate our policies, whether in Ads, embed code, comments, or anywhere else, please report it to us. Combined with our automated defenses, these reports help us identify and prevent abuse. Please use the reporting tools responsibly and only for their intended purposes.

Be Safe

Only bring safe conversations to Hey Colleagues.

• Do not threaten, incite, or promote violence: We don’t allow threatening or inciting violence of any kind. We don’t allow individuals or groups that engage in or promote violence, property damage, or organized criminal activity.
• Do not promote, sell, or attempt to purchase illegal or dangerous goods or services: We don't allow content that facilitates the purchase of illegal or dangerous goods and/or services, prostitution, and escort services. We don't allow content that promotes or distributes fake educational and/or professional certifications, sale of scraped data, proxy test-taking, or instructions on creating forged official documents.

Be Trustworthy

We require you to use your true identity on Hey Colleagues, provide accurate information about yourself or your organization, and only share information that is real and authentic.

• Do not create a fake profile or falsify information about yourself: We don’t allow fake profiles or entities. Do not post misleading or deceptive information about yourself, your business, your qualifications, work experience, affiliations, or achievements. Do not use an image of someone else, or any other image that is not your likeness, for your profile photo.
• Do not scam, defraud, or deceive others: Do not use Hey Colleagues to facilitate romance scams, promote pyramid schemes, or otherwise defraud members. Do not share malicious software that puts our members, platform, or services at risk. Phishing attempts are not tolerated.

Be Professional

Hey Colleagues's mission is to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. We allow broad conversations about the world of work, but require professional expression. To maintain a professional platform, members should treat each other with respect and civility. Do not interact with others or share content in a way that's uncivil, inappropriate, or disrespectful.

• Do not be hateful: We don't allow content that attacks, denigrates, intimidates, dehumanizes, incites or threatens hatred, violence, prejudicial or discriminatory action against individuals or groups because of their actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, age, or disability status.
• Do not engage in sexual innuendos or unwanted advances: We don't allow unwanted expressions of attraction, desire, requests for romantic relationships, marriage proposals, sexual advances or innuendo, or lewd remarks.