This is not the place for reporting harassment. Please follow the instructions in the Anti-Harassment Policy.
The Anti-Harassment Team is the staff team of the SCP Wiki concerned with handling and counteracting harassment cases between users. In contrast to the Disciplinary Team, the Anti-Harassment Team's cases are not reported in an 05 thread and are strictly confidential. More specifically, the Anti-Harassment Team's responsibilities are:
- Investigating and dealing with harassment issues on the main site or IRC.
- Working with administrators, moderators, and chat operators to deal with issues, receiving complaints, and recommending courses of action when necessary.
- Acting as primary contacts for harassment complaints on both the main site and IRC.
- Maintaining the Anti-Harassment Policy.
Most members of the team are also chat operators, so that they can also deal with chat-based harassment.
If you would like to speak with the Anti-Harassment Team regarding miscellaneous issues, please inquire in #site17 or message a member of the team. If you wish to report harassment, please follow the instructions in the Anti-Harassment Policy.
Team members who haven't yet been explained where discussion on policy and other things will happen should contact 
DrEverettMann for further instruction.
Staff Internal Guide
Taking Reports
When taking a report from someone experiencing harassment, you should record what they say and reassure them they are being taken seriously, but avoid making specific promises about what actions staff will take. Ask for any other information if the reporter has not volunteered it (such as time, place) but do not pressure them to provide it if they are reluctant. Even if the report lacks important details such as the identity of the person taking the harassing actions, it should still be recorded and posted on the team website.
Do not pressure the reporter to take any action if they do not want to do it. Respect the reporter's privacy by not sharing unnecessary details with others, especially individuals who were not involved with the situation or non-team members.
Reports should include:
- Names of participants.
- The behavior that was in violation.
- The approximate time of the behavior.
- The circumstances surrounding the incident.
- Other people involved in the incident.
- The time you issued the warning (if applicable).
Actions Outside Our Purview
If a report is given to the Anti-Harassment Team that is a rules violation but does not entail harassment, then no action should be taken. The user should be directed to make their report to either chat operators (in-chat) or Disciplinary Team members (on-site). If you are also a member of one of these groups and wish to take the report, then make it clear to the reporter.
If a report is given to the Anti-Harassment Team that is not an instance of harassment (even minor), then no action should be taken.
The Anti-Harassment Team should never adjudicate personal situations that do not involve harassment.
The Anti-Harassment Team should additionally not relay personal "cease contact" orders unless harassment behavior (even minor) has already taken place.
Warning & Banning
Any member of the Anti-Harassment Team can issue a warning to a participant that their behavior violates our anti-harassment policy. Warnings should be reported on the team site as soon as practical.
The Anti-Harassment Team should deliver warnings only for borderline behavior or offenses judged to be very minor.
Examples of incidents that should almost always result in a permanent ban:
- Continuing to harass after any "No" or "Stop" instruction.
- A pattern of harassing behavior, with or without warnings.
- A single serious offense (e.g. sexual harassment).
- A single obviously intentional offense.
Discipline for harassment counts for both site and chat.
All harassment ban votes for the main site must follow the procedures laid out in the Site Charter. At least three votes are required to ban a user, including at least one active site administrator. Anti-Harassment Team members function as Disciplinary Team members for the purpose of voting for bans involving harassment only. All Anti-Harassment Team members must be site moderators or administrators.
All harassment ban votes for the chat must follow the same procedures, except that at least one active chat operator or admin (or the owner) must be involved. This involvement may take place after the site ban only if the user is not on chat (and never joins chat). Otherwise, it should take place concurrently.
We are obligated to tell a user that they have been banned for harassment. We are not obligated to listen to any appeal and do so only at our discretion.
05 Ban Reporting
Harassment ban reports should be presented/formatted in the following manner.
"AHT was alerted to behavior carried out by [[*user]], and began an investigation into their activities. We were approached by (general approximation of # of people) members of the community that suggested that this person was engaged in (Specific but vague harassment level behavior IE, sexually explicit with minors, persistent harassment of individual users, emotionally manipulative/abusive behavior, etc.). After confirming the facts of the case we found the user in violation of anti-harassment and user site conduct, and has been subsequently banned for (Ban Length)."
Upon reaching a consensus to ban a user, victims should be approached and asked if they wish for evidence and more detailed reasoning to be released to concerned parties, so that other branches of the community not explicitly attached to the site may mirror AHT bans. Evidence would be made available upon request. Retaliation is a frequent part of harassment behavior upon a report and action being taken. Therefore, to protect the victim, staff will not share names, personal details such as phone numbers, locations, etc. with concerned parties. Staff will only share evidence of rulebreaking behavior.
Other
As a general rule, team members should not make any public statements about the behavior of individual people.
In general, consult with other staff members when possible but act when necessary.
