Not a mission statement. Not corporate values copy. These are the standards the collective gets held to — including by each other.
A deck is not a project. If you can't show progress, you don't have a project yet — you have an idea, and ideas are free.
The person who dreams it up and the person who knows how to make it real are doing equally hard work. Neither one outranks the other, and neither gets to coast on the other's labor.
"I'm not technical" doesn't excuse you from learning enough to communicate clearly. "I'm not creative" doesn't excuse you from caring about the thing you're building. Pick up the parts of the craft you're missing.
Engineers don't get to quietly redesign someone's idea into something safer, smaller, or easier to manage and call it "helping." If the box doesn't fit the dream, fix the box.
Show up. Help someone else's build before you ask anyone to help yours. Crews are earned, not assigned.
Time, money, and skill are real constraints, not bad vibes to push past. A project that's honest about its limits gets built.
Bad welds, weak code, and unclear ideas all get called out directly — the person attached to them does not.