GitHub emphasizes creating a safe and inclusive environment for its diverse community of developers by introducing Community Guidelines that outline expected behaviors and actions that may breach their Terms of Service. These guidelines focus on fostering a respectful community, addressing offensive content, prohibiting harmful behaviors such as threats and harassment, and detailing consequences for rule violations. They encourage project maintainers to moderate discussions and rely on community members to report abuse, without GitHub actively seeking out content to moderate. Released under the Creative Commons Zero License, GitHub invites feedback on these guidelines to encourage similar standards across other platforms and aims to finalize them with community input by November 20, 2016.