Welcome to the Doom Emacs Discourse! You don’t have to use Doom (or Emacs, for that matter) to be here, but please follow our user guidelines so this place can stay clean and well-lit for civilized, public discourse.

Your participation counts!

The conversations we have here set the tone for everyone. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be—and avoiding those that do not.

Always be civil

The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said:

  • Criticize ideas, not people. No name-calling or ad-hominem attacks.

  • Be clear. Don’t obscure your message with unexplained jargon, memes, or image reactions.

  • Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.

  • Stay cool. Exchange reasoned arguments, not knee-jerk reactions, emotional rebukes, or aimless rants.

  • Respect each other. Mind others’ boundaries, take responsibility if you cross them, and forgive folks for accidentally crossing yours.

  • Read our help guidelines before asking for help.

This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.

Keep things tidy

Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up:

  • Don’t start a topic in the wrong category.
  • Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream. Use Reply as a New Topic instead.
  • Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
  • Don’t post meme, no-content, or image-reaction-only posts.
  • Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.
  • Don’t post “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button instead.
  • Don’t spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.
  • Once a post is resolved, mark the post that solved your issue. If that isn’t possible, reply to yourself and mark your own.

Moderators regularly tidy up our forum for SEO and clarity, and as such reserve the right to remove any post or user account at any time.

If you see a problem, flag it

Do not respond to problematic behavior. It encourages it by acknowledging it, consuming your energy, and wasting everyone’s time — and you may end up punished along with them!

Instead, flag it. With enough flags, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention. If you feel it’s urgent, DM one of our @moderators. If you believe moderators have abused their power, contact @hlissner instead.

Remember, Discourse provides tools that enable us to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: favorites, bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, and so forth. Use them to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.

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Soliciting for work, publicly or privately, is prohibited on our Discourse unless the recipient has explicitly indicated they are open to this in their user profile.

Terms of Service

Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against unfriendly folks. We have a Terms of Service describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. To use this service, you must agree to abide by our TOS.