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Building communities
Learn best practices for moderating and setting up collaborative, safe, and effective communities using GitHub’s community-tested tools.
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Setting guidelines for repository contributors→
You can create guidelines to communicate how people should contribute to your project.
Adding a code of conduct to your project→
Adopt a code of conduct to define community standards, signal a welcoming and inclusive project, and outline procedures for handling abuse.
Managing disruptive comments→
You can hide, edit, or delete comments on issues, pull requests, and commits.
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Setting up your project for healthy contributions
- About community management and moderation
- About community profiles for public repositories
- Accessing a project's community profile
- Adding a code of conduct to your project
- Setting guidelines for repository contributors
- Adding a license to a repository
- Adding support resources to your project
- Creating a default community health file
- Encouraging helpful contributions to your project with labels
Moderating comments and conversations
- Managing disruptive comments
- Locking conversations
- Limiting interactions in your repository
- Limiting interactions for your user account
- Limiting interactions in your organization
- Tracking changes in a comment
- Managing how contributors report abuse in your organization's repository
- Managing reported content in your organization's repository
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