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 # Code of Conduct
 
-## 1. Purpose
+## Purpose
 
-Telemt exists to solve technical problems.
+**Telemt exists to solve technical problems.**
 
 Telemt is open to contributors who want to learn, improve and build meaningful systems together.
 
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-## 2. Principles
+## Principles
 
 * **Technical over emotional**
+
   Arguments are grounded in data, logs, reproducible cases, or clear reasoning.
 
 * **Clarity over noise**
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   Communication is structured, concise, and relevant.
 
 * **Openness with standards**
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   Participation is open. The work remains disciplined.
 
 * **Independence of judgment**
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   Claims are evaluated on technical merit, not affiliation or posture.
 
 * **Responsibility over capability**
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   Capability does not justify careless use.
 
 * **Cooperation over friction**
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   Progress depends on coordination, mutual support, and honest review.
 
 * **Good intent, rigorous method**
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   Assume good intent, but require rigor.
 
 > **Aussagen gelten nach ihrer Begründung.**
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-## 3. Expected Behavior
+## Expected Behavior
 
 Participants are expected to:
 
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-## 4. Unacceptable Behavior
+## Unacceptable Behavior
 
 The following is not allowed:
 
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-## 5. Security and Misuse
+## Security and Misuse
 
 Telemt is intended for responsible use.
 
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 Telemt is open to contributors of different backgrounds, experience levels, and working styles.
 
-Standards are public, legible, and applied to the work itself.
+- Standards are public, legible, and applied to the work itself.
-
+- Questions are welcome. Careful disagreement is welcome. Honest correction is welcome.
-Questions are welcome. Careful disagreement is welcome. Honest correction is welcome.
+- Gatekeeping by obscurity, status signaling, or hostility is not.
-
-Gatekeeping by obscurity, status signaling, or hostility is not.
 
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-## 7. Scope
+## Scope
 
 This Code of Conduct applies to all official spaces:
 
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-## 8. Maintainer Stewardship
+## Maintainer Stewardship
 
 Maintainers are responsible for final decisions in matters of conduct, scope, and direction.
 
-This responsibility is stewardship: preserving continuity, protecting signal, maintaining standards, and keeping Telemt workable for others.
+This responsibility is stewardship: 
+- preserving continuity, 
+- protecting signal, 
+- maintaining standards, 
+- keeping Telemt workable for others.
 
 Judgment should be exercised with restraint, consistency, and institutional responsibility.
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+- Not every decision requires extended debate.
-Not every decision requires extended debate.
+- Not every intervention requires public explanation.
-Not every intervention requires public explanation.
 
 All decisions are expected to serve the durability, clarity, and integrity of Telemt.
 
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-## 9. Enforcement
+## Enforcement
 
 Maintainers may act to preserve the integrity of Telemt, including by:
 
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 * Restricting or banning participants
 
 Actions are taken to maintain function, continuity, and signal quality.
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+- Where possible, correction is preferred to exclusion.
-Where possible, correction is preferred to exclusion.
+- Where necessary, exclusion is preferred to decay.
-
-Where necessary, exclusion is preferred to decay.
 
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-## 10. Final
+## Final
 
 Telemt is built on discipline, structure, and shared intent.
+- Signal over noise.
+- Facts over opinion.
+- Systems over rhetoric.
 
-Signal over noise.
+- Work is collective.
-Facts over opinion.
+- Outcomes are shared.
-Systems over rhetoric.
+- Responsibility is distributed.
 
-Work is collective.
+- Precision is learned.
-Outcomes are shared.
+- Rigor is expected.
-Responsibility is distributed.
+- Help is part of the work.
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-Precision is learned.
-Rigor is expected.
-Help is part of the work.
 
 > **Ordnung ist Voraussetzung der Freiheit.**
 
-If you contribute — contribute with care.
+- If you contribute — contribute with care.
-If you speak — speak with substance.
+- If you speak — speak with substance.
-If you engage — engage constructively.
+- If you engage — engage constructively.
 
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-## 11. After All
+## After All
 
 Systems outlive intentions.
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+- What is built will be used.
-What is built will be used.
+- What is released will propagate.
-What is released will propagate.
+- What is maintained will define the future state.
-What is maintained will define the future state.
 
 There is no neutral infrastructure, only infrastructure shaped well or poorly.
 
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 > Every system carries responsibility.
 
-Stability requires discipline.
+- Stability requires discipline.
-Freedom requires structure.
+- Freedom requires structure.
-Trust requires honesty.
+- Trust requires honesty.
 
-In the end, the system reflects its contributors.
+In the end: the system reflects its contributors.