Community Law · Ten short rules

These keep the rooms safe to ask in. א · Student-first, not authority-first. The Camp exists to serve students learning. No room is a stage for a teacher to perform on; no thread is a platform for someone to build a following from. ב · No pretending to be a rabbi. You are a student here regardless of credentials elsewhere. Real authority belongs with the qualified person who knows you. The Camp helps you bring better questions to that person. ג · No halachic rulings from users. Discuss principles, cite sources, frame questions. Do not pasken. Even "I think the halacha is…" rulings are out — turn them into "I'm trying to understand whether…" ד · No spiritual domination. No one in the Camp owes another student loyalty, agreement, or admiration. Students who pull others toward themselves instead of toward Torah will be redirected. ה · No prophecy claims. The Camp is for Torah study, not personal prophecy, not "Hashem told me", not channeled messages. Speak the source, speak your reading; don't speak for the Source. ו · No therapy replacement. The Camp is a study house, not a clinic. Threads about mental-health crises trigger a care callout that points to qualified human help. Use it. ז · No harassment, mockery, or humiliation. Critique the reading; never the reader. Mockery, ad-hominem, and pile-ons are removed without ceremony. Custodians act first, explain second. ח · No conspiracy spirals in study rooms. Speculative theories, "they don't want you to know" framings, and end-times urgency get redirected out of study rooms. The Camp's pace is slow. ט · Sources over vibes. Bring the verse, the page, the daf. "I read somewhere" is for orientation, not authority. Confident-sounding posts without sources are exactly the noise the Camp exists to refuse. י · Serious questions deserve serious treatment. If you ask carefully, the room will hold the question carefully. If you ask carelessly — bait, troll, performative — the room will move on. Both are kindness. Reports go to a custodian queue. Risk-flagged threads (halacha, mental health, marriage, conversion) sort to the top with red treatment. The mod queue is small on purpose; the rules above are how it stays small.