kuler community guidelines
Sami@Adobe Oct 8, 2007 6:40 PMHi everyone,
This topic is a forum for discussing kuler community guidelines.
The purpose of the kuler site is to provide an open, welcoming, and inspiring environment where people can explore, create, and share color themes. Speaking for the kuler team, we have been amazed at members’ creativity, passion, and generosity of spirit in sharing themes and participating on the site and kuler talk. We would like to keep that kuler spirit! So, after reviewing various kuler talk threads, here are some kuler community guidelines we’d like to formalize after discussion on the forum, and apply moving forward. Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions!
Sami
kuler community manager
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kuler community guidelines
In the kuler spirit:
Play nice: Keep it friendly and assume other members are playing nice too. Constructive feedback on themes is welcomed, mean-spiritedness is not.
Inspiration: If you are inspired by another member’s theme, it’s okay to create a variation of it. If you choose to make it public, make it different enough (colors, tags, title) out of respect for your fellow members. That way it adds to the theme universe and benefits everyone. It is good karma to give attribution: add a tag that says “inspiredby_themetitle” or a title such as “After theme title” or you can also refer to your source in the comment.
Originality: Create your colors, and have fun coming up with a good title and helpful/interesting tags. If there are themes with the same title (e.g., spring), hopefully the colors and tags will differentiate them.
Reporting issues: If you have a specific issue about a theme or creator, use the Report a Concern link in the comments area; you will receive a response if we have further questions. For general issues not related to a particular member, please post on kuler talk. Let’s keep the theme comments area for feedback on the theme itself.
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Housekeeping Notes
In addition these actions should help support the community guidelines:
Theme cleanup: We will periodically clean up the duplicate themes that appear to have been created by newbies on the learning curve (all those multiple Firenzes or Cherry Cheesecakes, for example!). Rather than deleting them, they will be made private. Notification will appear on the kuler main page and kuler talk.
User interface change: We realize the current edit functionality puts the original theme’s title and tags in automatically, which is compounding the confusion around original themes and duplicates. We are looking into fixing this; in the meantime the above guidelines should help clarify expectations around editing another person’s theme.
This topic is a forum for discussing kuler community guidelines.
The purpose of the kuler site is to provide an open, welcoming, and inspiring environment where people can explore, create, and share color themes. Speaking for the kuler team, we have been amazed at members’ creativity, passion, and generosity of spirit in sharing themes and participating on the site and kuler talk. We would like to keep that kuler spirit! So, after reviewing various kuler talk threads, here are some kuler community guidelines we’d like to formalize after discussion on the forum, and apply moving forward. Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions!
Sami
kuler community manager
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kuler community guidelines
In the kuler spirit:
Play nice: Keep it friendly and assume other members are playing nice too. Constructive feedback on themes is welcomed, mean-spiritedness is not.
Inspiration: If you are inspired by another member’s theme, it’s okay to create a variation of it. If you choose to make it public, make it different enough (colors, tags, title) out of respect for your fellow members. That way it adds to the theme universe and benefits everyone. It is good karma to give attribution: add a tag that says “inspiredby_themetitle” or a title such as “After theme title” or you can also refer to your source in the comment.
Originality: Create your colors, and have fun coming up with a good title and helpful/interesting tags. If there are themes with the same title (e.g., spring), hopefully the colors and tags will differentiate them.
Reporting issues: If you have a specific issue about a theme or creator, use the Report a Concern link in the comments area; you will receive a response if we have further questions. For general issues not related to a particular member, please post on kuler talk. Let’s keep the theme comments area for feedback on the theme itself.
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Housekeeping Notes
In addition these actions should help support the community guidelines:
Theme cleanup: We will periodically clean up the duplicate themes that appear to have been created by newbies on the learning curve (all those multiple Firenzes or Cherry Cheesecakes, for example!). Rather than deleting them, they will be made private. Notification will appear on the kuler main page and kuler talk.
User interface change: We realize the current edit functionality puts the original theme’s title and tags in automatically, which is compounding the confusion around original themes and duplicates. We are looking into fixing this; in the meantime the above guidelines should help clarify expectations around editing another person’s theme.

