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Welcome to our Community Guidelines.

We understand that thriving communities require creators to feel empowered to express themselves while also ensuring their safety and freedom from abuse. To achieve this, we've formulated a set of Community Guidelines aimed at clarifying how our terms of service impact our users and communities, and how we can foster relevant discussions throughout our communities.

encouragement & advocacy of violence

You may not share content or participate in activities that promote, celebrate, or incite real-world violence. This encompasses glorifying real-world violence, depicting violence against individuals or groups in graphic detail, making credible threats of violence or advocating violence against any party.

Our services must not be used to organize acts of violence, vandalism, property damage, or any other criminal activities.

violent groups

You are prohibited from endorsing, promoting, or glorifying organizations associated with real-world violence or criminal activities.

This encompasses terrorist groups, gangs, trafficking networks, and movements advocating or engaging in mass violence or serious harm against others.

targeting individuals or groups

You are prohibited from participating in or instigating harassment against individuals or communities.

Harassment encompasses persistent unsolicited communication, any form of threats, sharing or intending to share private information without consent, circumventing blocks or bans to continue unwanted contact, and creating communities with the explicit or implicit goal of demeaning, threatening, or targeting individuals or communities.

hate speech

Engaging in hate speech on our platform is not permitted. Hate speech is broadly defined as any communication, media, terms, or rhetoric that targets or encourages the targeting or dehumanization of individuals or groups based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability.

This encompasses endorsing, glorifying, or advocating for groups or movements involved in atrocities or advocating violence against protected groups.

sexual content

The publication or distribution of sexually explicit depictions involving minors, including illustrated or digitally simulated content, is strictly prohibited. Additionally, distributing resources for obtaining such content is forbidden.

You are not allowed to publish or distribute private sexually explicit content without the explicit consent of the individuals depicted. This includes leaked content, revenge pornography, and sharing resources for obtaining such material.

Content depicting or promoting sexual abuse, violence, or exploitation is prohibited. Furthermore, facilitating or coordinating sexual solicitation in any form is not permitted.

animal abuse

Distribution or publication of content depicting or endorsing real-world animal torture, mutilation, abuse, sacrifice, or blood sports is strictly prohibited.

We acknowledge the sensitivity surrounding real-world hunting content. Individuals sharing such content are urged to use discretion. Images depicting excessive blood, graphic content, or desecration of carcasses may be removed from the platform without prior notice.

extreme insensitivity

Distribution or publication of content that glorifies cruelty or openly ridicules the suffering of victims of violence, disaster, or harassment is prohibited. This encompasses victims of murder, mass murder, terrorism, suicide, self-harm, starvation, natural disasters, accidental death or serious injury, mutilation, or any form of torture.

controlled Items & substances

Engaging or organizing the creation or private exchange of weapons on our platform is prohibited. This includes firearms, firearm components, ammunition, explosive materials, regulated bladed weapons, instructions or schematics for constructing hazardous weaponry, and 3D printing designs for firearms.

Furthermore, participating or coordinating in the production or private exchange of drugs and regulated substances is not permitted on our services.

responsibility

Users are responsible for the content they publish on our services. Content that is in violation of our Community Guidelines may be removed without warning, and users publishing said content may incur warnings, limitations to feature access, temporary or indefinite suspensions, or a permanent ban.

Please be aware that these guidelines do not cover every possible scenario. Content or actions that could breach our terms of service may not be explicitly outlined in this document. If you have concerns regarding particular content or actions not addressed here, please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]