Site Rules
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Important Rule
Rule #0: Respect other people
- Don’t, negligently or deliberately, cause others to have a bad site experience
- Don’t support efforts to cause harm to others, especially discriminatory hate or violent acts
- This rule applies to all content posted on the site, including images, comments, forum posts, and private messages
Rule #1: Respect content ownership
- Don’t post others’ non-commercial content without a reasonable belief they would be okay with it
- Don’t post commercial content without permission or a copyright exemption
- Don’t post content with authorship marks removed, unless you have permission
- Don’t post content identified in the Do-Not-Post list
Rule #2: Tag images appropriately
- Don’t apply tags to an image unless their definition, or common sense meaning if there isn’t one, matches what’s in the image
- Don’t remove such tags
- Don’t change tags set by site staff, or important tags such as authorship or rating, without extra diligence
Rule #3: Only post artwork appropriate for the site's subject
- Don’t post images where no part is related to the site’s subject
- Don’t post images with minimal artistic effort and meaning
- Don’t post images where minimal alterations have been made to make something related to the site’s subject
Rule #4: Use filters to hide content you don't wish to see
- Don’t post comments complaining about an image’s subject matter (filters can help)
- Don’t vote on images based on filterable characteristics
- Don’t accuse others of rule-breaking (report instead)
- Filter content which you cannot legally view
Rule #5: Keep content legal
- Don’t post real-life pornography of underage people or sexual acts with animals, or anything not readily distinguishable from it
- Don’t post defamation or libel
- Don’t incite violence against people, or dehumanize them
- Don’t call for oppression of people by their characteristics (such as race, sex, sexuality, or cultural/national/religious background)
- Don’t post extremist content or symbols in any way that promotes them
Rule #6: Do not abuse site functionality
- Don’t use multiple accounts to evade punishments or to pretend to be two different people in the same discussion
- Don’t impersonate others
- Don’t upload many images in a short time unless they are meaningfully distinct parts of an image set
- Don’t create multiple comments/posts in a row when you can edit instead
- Don’t post comments or thread replies unrelated to the subject
- Don’t post unsolicited advertisement
Rule #7: Spoiler content which cannot be filtered
- Respect the sexual rating of where you post. Forum threads’ are assumed to be within SFW ratings unless specified otherwise
- Within text posts, use the
||spoiler syntax||to spoiler above-rating or potentially-seizure-inducing content that built-in site functionality cannot automatically filter - Parts of your profile that cannot use spoiler syntax, such as username and avatar, must be within SFW ratings and not contain flickering animations which may induce seizures
Rule #8: Respect privacy
- Do not reveal any personal information about artists or other users without consent
- If you are aware of an artist or a user using multiple aliases to separate their work, do not reveal this information publicly without their consent
Rule #9: Advertise commissions in good faith
- All commissions must contain only the artwork created by the person advertising the commission
- You may not advertise a commission on behalf of another person
- Site staff are not responsible for any commission arrangements or outcomes based on commission advertisements
Rule #n: Rules are not exhaustive
- The rules are not exhaustive; just because something is not explicitly forbidden does not mean it is allowed
- If you are unsure whether something is allowed, contact site staff for clarification