August 8: Keep Calm & Safety On - A new Subcommunity Coming your way this August!
What does being safe on the internet mean to you? What does being safe at 7 Cups mean to you?
Both of these questions have many answers. 7 Cups is a growing city and like all cities, we need to create a more dedicated space to training and sharing resources related to safe interactions on 7 Cups (and more generally on the internet). This will be a NEW sub-community space called ….
Keep Calm & Safety On!
The sub-community will be dedicated to building a culture around safety and safe interactions on 7 Cups (and more broadly safe internet practices). We will have content and helpful information on how to keep yourself safe on 7 Cups. Within the subcommunity, there will be ongoing discussions, new threads, new resources, and guides and information related to safety. Like all Sub-Communities, we will have folks plugged in to help in the following areas: forum, feed, and projects/ special events. Additionally, we will have some folks plugged in to help flag inappropriate profiles, I will be working out the specifics of how this will work stay tuned!
Sub-forums (ideas):
Practice Situations - What to do when!
Internet Bullying Support & information
7 Cups Safety Tools, Report Forms & More!
Topic Guide Library!
Conflict Resolution - Questions, how-to's and more!
Boundary setting
Open Communication tips!
When to block another user
Leaving a listener a review - best practices
Over the next few weeks, I will start to pull this forum area together. It will be a combination of new content and possibly old content (if relevant and appropriate to move over). If you love satefy topics, want to help write some guides, want to join the subcommunity or want to help in way, please post to this thread, or keep a look out for the subcommunity and join in!!!
This will be a work in progress, I will be learning along side you all to help make this the best it can be. Feedback, ideas, suggestions welcome! I know we can continue to spread the word about how to have safe interactions on 7 Cups!
@Laura Love this idea! Would love to help out however possible <3
I agree about us feeling safe. As participants on boards, chatrooms, and as listeners.
Another issue I have had to deal with has been being ghosted or shunned on online support sites, so have been extremely hypervigilant on all online communities.
Internet communication is a little different from face-to-face communication so I never know how people are feeling or what people are thinking on any message boards or chat rooms. I've been extremely cautious even here on 7 Cups. Nothing personal to anyone everyone's been very supportive but I've been very careful about sharing here because of my bad experiences on other online support boards. That is why I think safety is extremely important for listeners and participants at large.
I want to feel like I can share here or on any online support community without fear of being bullied or abused in any way. I know we all have problems but we are all responsible for the way we behave.
Thanks
Carol
