Swiss Hackers Guidelines

Swiss Hackers is a place for founders, developers, tech people and anyone curious about digital things in Switzerland. A few short rules keep it worth reading.

What to submit

• Anything that good people in the Swiss tech scene would find interesting: startups, engineering, research, open source, security, policy, events, jobs culture, side projects.
• It doesn't have to be about Switzerland, but Swiss angles are especially welcome.
• Swiss Hackers is in English, so people from every language region (and beyond) can follow. Please write titles, posts and comments in English.
• Linked articles can be in any language. Give them an English title that faithfully translates the original; the article's language is shown next to the link.

What not to submit

• No self-promotion without value. Sharing your own work is great when it's interesting on its own, not when it's an ad.
• No clickbait. Use the original title, without ALL CAPS, exclamation marks or "you won't believe".
• No press releases dressed up as news, no SEO spam, no affiliate links.

Show and Ask

• Show is for something you made that people can try, read or look at. Be around to answer questions.
• Ask is for questions to the community. Give enough context that people can actually help.
• Every Friday there's a thread where you can post what you're working on.

In comments

• Be kind and factual. Criticize ideas, not people.
• Respond to the strongest version of what someone said, not the weakest.
• Add something: experience, data, a link, a question. Skip the one-word replies.
• If something breaks the guidelines, flag it instead of feeding it. Moderators read every flag.

Moderation

We moderate consistently, especially in the beginning: it's much easier to set a culture early than to fix it later. Posts and comments that break these rules get removed, and repeat offenders lose their account.