# Great Community Guidelines

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-community-guidelines/88382
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [May 24, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-community-guidelines/88382 "2018-05-24T14:47:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![SpaceMonkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/spacemonkey/32/98889_2.png) [@SpaceMonkey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SpaceMonkey)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-community-guidelines/88382/1 "2018-05-24T14:47:50Z")

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As I am laying out what I want my community to look like, It is clear that design and UX are important. However, I think the backbone is the [Community Guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines) or Manifesto. I am looking to see if anyone has examples or suggestions to help create a specifically civil community.

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### Author: ![Nichalas\_Petranek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nichalas_petranek/32/92404_2.png) [@Nichalas\_Petranek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nichalas_Petranek)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-community-guidelines/88382/2 "2018-05-24T15:05:04Z")

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Both of the discourse instances that I’m on independent of this one (I’m an admin on one of them) use the default [community guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines). Have a read of them, they really are quite thorough and pretty much eliminate the need to come up with your own.

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### Author: ![dnsmichi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dnsmichi/32/379505_2.png) [@dnsmichi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dnsmichi)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-community-guidelines/88382/5 "2018-05-25T14:56:13Z")

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I’ve adopted the default FAQ at first, and then have largely rewritten it for a more QA based and centric to monitoring tools community. Maybe you can extract some specific things from it.

[https://monitoring-portal.org/faq](https://monitoring-portal.org/faq)

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### Author: ![SpaceMonkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/spacemonkey/32/98889_2.png) [@SpaceMonkey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SpaceMonkey)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-community-guidelines/88382/6 "2018-05-25T15:58:23Z")

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This helps, thank you.

For my project I am going to try creating a community driven news site, using the structure of a forum.