November is here!

Your monthly HSRC recap has arrived! Here are the changes, additions, and updates made to The Homeschooler’s Chat last month. Plus, you can view this month’s art prompt at the end of this post!

📌 Jump To:

• Website Updates
• Server Updates
• This Month’s Art Prompt
• This Month’s Other Events

Website Updates

• New post about Spotting Predators Online
• A silly ✨girlypop✨ version of the Spotting Predators Online post
• Updated our Community Guidelines wording for clarity
• Implemented a dark background for easy viewing

Server Updates

Quick changes

• Replaced the website guide channel by bringing back #💚｜about-us
• ⁠#💥｜spam was reset. No more lag!

Rules Revision

The wording of our rules was updated to guarantee clarity, covering topics our frequent users are familiar with, but new users often ask about. The spirit of our rules remains the same.

DM policy clarification

• Even users with “DMs open” in their bio/intro should be asked before messaging. This allows staff to easily take action in all weird DM cases.
• Using DMs to solicit rule violations is not okay. For example, “can I DM anyone an invite to my server?”

Defining our server culture

• Social leeching (e.g., using members as a therapist) is not tolerated
• Bad actors should not be encouraged or argued with
• Personal difficulties between members should stay out of HSRC
• Moderation should be left to staff (explaining rules is appreciated)

Maintaining a comfortable space

• Users should not avoid AutoMod
• Messages should not be circulated outside of HSRC without OP’s consent

Unique Activity Ping Roles

New roles were added, allowing users to opt into pings based on the activities or games that they are most interested in getting involved with. These pings may be used during game nights or unique events featuring just these games or activities.

• Among Us role
• Gartic Phone role
• Magma role
• JackBox role

Transcribe voice chat yourself

Any user with Bronze rank or higher can now invite the bot which automatically transcribes speech into text to the following voice channels:

• 🎈｜General Lounge⁠
• 🎮｜Game Together⁠
• 📖｜Study & Talk

Transcripts will appear in ⁠the #✍｜transcript channel. This channel will be cleared regularly. You can ping Anne anytime to request for your transcript to be removed sooner.

Art Challenge: Your Favorite Place

The topic of this month’s art challenge is your favorite place! Your challenge is to create a piece of art about somewhere you love. Real places, like a park, your room, or a place you went on vacation are great choices. Other wonderful options include your favorite location from a book series, movie or other media!

💭 Need ideas?

Get your creativity started with these concepts:

• The place you hang out when you’re not feeling good
• Your favorite place to go on vacation
• The best house you’ve ever built in Minecraft
• Somewhere full of warm, happy memories for you

✔ DO submit

• A single still image, GIF, or animation (30 seconds or less)
• Artwork that is 100% your own
• Art created with this prompt in mind
• Traditional art, digital art, or a craft submitted as a clear photo
• A poem or written work in the form of an image (e.g., your poem written on a background you’ve drawn)

✖ DON’T submit

• Traced or copied artwork
• AI generated art
• Art created BEFORE this prompt
• Text which is not in an image
• Work that is not 100% your own, including any background used for written works

To submit an art piece, simply post it in the ⁠#monthly-art-challenge channel within our Discord before November 25th, 2024!

🚨 Worried you’ll forget?

We’ve got you covered! The @Art Crowd role in our Discord server will get a reminder ping when there are 10 days left in the challenge.

November’s other events

• Geotastic – November 1st
• Bonfire Night Magma – November 2nd
• Productivity Session – November 6th
• Game Night – November 9th
• Productivity Session – November 13th
• Productivity Session – November 20th
• Game Night – November 23rd
• Art Challenge Submissions Due – November 24th
• Productivity Session – November 27th

More events are always being added to the schedule, so be sure to tune in on our Discord server for more. We look forward to seeing you around The Homeschooler’s Chat this month!