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Everyone is vetted by our Vetting Team. This is a group of Members who have been a part of DT4T for 6+ months and have been additionally vetted for their position on the Vetting Team.
To apply for Membership to DT4T, prospective members may fill out the following form:
If someone’s answers indicate they might not be a good fit, the Vetting Team contacts them to explain why and to ask for more information. For example, if someone indicates that they frequently eat out at restaurants, we would inform them that doing so is misaligned with DT4T’s values and ask if it’s a habit they’d change if they were granted membership. The Vetting Team uses their best judgment to assess if the answers to their follow-up questions assuage their concerns.
If someone is rejected, they are invited to apply again after a waiting period of 9 months.
Since these people will be privy to Members-only spaces, it’s important that we know who they are and that we can trust them to keep us safe.
Members who need to give their aides access to DT4T spaces must have their aides fill out the following form:
There are very few reasons we’d disqualify someone from seeking membership. They are:
To help make sure we don’t welcome dangerous parties into our community, all members are encouraged to flag the names of potential future applicants who might be unsafe agitators or abusers. In order to make it through our vetting process, those applicants must take accountability for their past actions and demonstrate a newfound ability to be a safe community member.
This system is not for flagging people we just don’t like. This system is to weed out manipulators, sexual abusers, people who have lied about infectious disease precautions, people whom we believe are capable of harming other Members, and people whom we would feel unsafe—not just uncomfortable—sharing space with. It’s for alerting the Vetting Team to people who refused to take accountability for harm they caused in the past—despite our best efforts at de-escalation and repair—because if someone is unwilling or unable to participate in nonviolent conflict resolution, they are a danger to our entire community.
Any member can submit the following form at any time to add a name to the Vetting Team’s list of potential risks to our community. The form can be submitted anonymously, but that limits the actions the Vetting Team can take to support the member if the other person does eventually apply.
If someone on the list applies for membership, the Vetting Team contacts the applicant to say that their name was flagged. We tell them what the member shared about the situation and ask for their side of the story. We give them the chance to take accountability in the manner the member indicated on the form.
If the applicant offers that accountability and the Vetting Team determines they are qualified for Membership based on their application, the applicant is approved. Even if the existing Member still feels uncomfortable, we recognize that discomfort is different from real danger. We believe everyone has the power to change, and when genuine accountability is offered, we accept it graciously.
If someone causes harm once they’ve been approved for Membership, it will be resolved through the Conflict Resolution process.