Last updated: March 17, 2026
This policy is the public rulebook Discussite uses to decide what is allowed on the Service. It is written for users first, and it is also the policy moderators and future automated moderation systems are expected to apply when making enforcement decisions.
This User Conduct Policy explains what behavior and content are allowed, restricted, or prohibited on Discussite. It applies to everyone who visits, signs up for, posts to, reports content on, or otherwise uses the Service.
This policy forms part of the Terms of Service. If you use Discussite, you agree to follow this policy in addition to the Terms and our Privacy Policy.
This document is the user-facing source of truth for moderation on Discussite. Our moderators and any automated, model-assisted, or API-based moderation systems we use now or in the future are expected to evaluate content and conduct against this policy.
Internal moderation playbooks may add workflow detail, examples, severity scoring, or escalation steps, but they are intended to interpret this policy rather than silently expand it. If we materially change the rules users are expected to follow, we will update and publish this policy.
This policy applies across the Service, including usernames, display names, bios, avatars, cover images, submitted URLs, titles, posts, replies, votes, follows, reports, appeals, waitlist submissions, feedback, extension usage, and other account or profile activity.
It also applies when you use Discussite to direct people to content hosted elsewhere. A link, title, profile field, reply pattern, or account behavior may violate this policy even if no single sentence, viewed in isolation, looks obviously abusive.
We may review conduct based on user reports, trusted notices, rightsholder complaints, moderator review, link-safety tools, spam heuristics, account-security systems, and automated classification or triage systems. We may consider context such as severity, credibility, intent, repetition, coordination, account history, destination content, and attempts to evade enforcement.
Depending on the situation, we may leave content up, reduce distribution, place an interstitial or warning, block a URL or submission, require edits, remove content, freeze features, limit reach, suspend an account, permanently terminate an account, preserve evidence, or report matters to authorities where required or appropriate.
Examples in this policy are illustrative, not exhaustive. Attempts to get around the rules through misspellings, screenshots of text, coded language, redirect chains, throwaway accounts, or coordinated behavior will be treated as policy violations.
You may not use Discussite for illegal content or illegal activity. This includes content or behavior involving child sexual exploitation, trafficking, terrorism or violent extremist propaganda, credible threats of violence, solicitation of serious violent crime, sale or promotion of illegal goods or services, or instructions intended to facilitate serious harm.
We may act immediately and without prior notice where we reasonably believe there is an imminent safety risk, a credible legal risk, or a need to preserve evidence or comply with law.
You may not target people with harassment, abuse, or intimidation. This includes targeted insults, sustained hostile engagement, dogpiling, demeaning slurs, unwanted sexualized comments, mockery aimed at silencing someone, celebrating harm against a person or group, or encouraging others to harass.
You may not attack, exclude, or degrade people on the basis of protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, caste, disability, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or similar protected status. Claims of "just joking," quoting someone else, or discussing current events do not excuse conduct that functions as targeted abuse or promotion of hatred.
You may not post or threaten to post another person's private or identifying information without authorization. This includes home addresses, non-public phone numbers, personal email addresses, government IDs, financial details, precise location data, login credentials, intimate images shared without consent, or information that meaningfully increases the risk of stalking, fraud, or offline harm.
You may not expose private information through profile fields, discussion titles, replies, screenshots, metadata, or links to third-party pages that are themselves used to reveal private information. Sharing your own contact details for legitimate use is your choice, but you remain responsible for the consequences.
You may not use Discussite to distribute phishing pages, malware, spyware, unwanted software, deceptive downloads, fraudulent offers, impersonation scams, or links designed to trick users about where they are going or what they are opening.
Link destinations matter. A post may violate this policy because of the landing page, redirect behavior, file payload, or scam behind the link, even if the title or surrounding commentary appears harmless. We may block or remove suspicious URLs before or after publication.
You may not spam the Service or manipulate its systems. This includes repetitive low-value posting, mass self-promotion, duplicate submissions, referral or affiliate abuse, artificial engagement, vote manipulation, follow churn, brigading, coordinated amplification, sockpuppet or fake accounts, scraping or automation that breaks our rules, and attempts to overwhelm reports or moderation queues.
You may not probe, interfere with, or circumvent rate limits, security controls, CAPTCHA, account verification, moderation tools, or access restrictions. Attempts to evade prior enforcement, including by creating replacement accounts or rerouting content through other accounts, are themselves violations.
You may not impersonate a person, company, or source in a misleading way. This includes fake authority accounts, deceptive usernames or bios, fabricated affiliations, forged screenshots, invented quotes, or titles that materially misrepresent the linked content or source.
Use accurate, non-deceptive titles and context. Do not deliberately hide sponsorship, rewrite headlines to inflame, or post links under descriptions that are materially false about what the destination contains. Satire, parody, and commentary may be allowed when they are reasonably clear and not used as cover for fraud, harassment, or confusion.
You may not use Discussite to knowingly share or promote content that clearly infringes another person's intellectual property rights, violates confidentiality obligations, or distributes protected material without authorization. This includes obvious piracy links, leaked private materials, hacked data, or instructions intended to bypass access controls where the primary purpose is unauthorized access.
We may remove allegedly infringing or confidential material, especially where we receive a plausible notice or can reasonably see the issue from the submission itself. Repeated infringement or repeated attempts to repost removed material may lead to account restrictions or termination.
You may not post pornography, explicit sexual exploitation, or gratuitously graphic gore. We may also remove or restrict disturbing material where the primary effect is shock, humiliation, or harm rather than legitimate discussion, reporting, criticism, or documentation.
Where context matters, we may distinguish between discussion about difficult subjects and material that glorifies, fetishizes, encourages, or needlessly amplifies them. We may use warnings, reduced distribution, or removal depending on severity and the product surface involved.
Discussite is for useful, good-faith discussion. Keep submissions and replies meaningfully related to the linked material or conversation. Do not flood threads with empty reactions, derail discussion in bad faith, abuse reports as a weapon, or post content whose primary purpose is to bait outrage, provoke pile-ons, or waste moderator time.
We may moderate low-signal or bad-faith behavior even where it is not independently illegal or abusive, especially if it undermines discussion quality, overwhelms users, or creates operational harm. Relevance, originality, and honest context matter.
You may report content or accounts that you reasonably believe violate this policy. Do not knowingly file false, abusive, retaliatory, or automated reports at scale. We may act on reports, our own review, or automated detection before we contact the affected user.
You may ask us to re-check an action by contacting us through the support or review channels we make available, including hello@discussite.com. We may use additional human review for reconsideration where appropriate, especially for serious account actions or where an automated system materially contributed to the initial decision. We may deny repetitive, abusive, or bad-faith appeals.
We do not intend to rely solely on automated systems to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on you without the safeguards required by applicable law. Depending on the case, those safeguards may include additional human review, recordkeeping, and a way to ask us to reconsider a decision.
This policy supplements the Terms of Service and should be read together with our Privacy Policy. If there is a direct conflict between this policy and the Terms, the Terms control to the extent of the conflict, except that this policy remains the primary rulebook for content and behavior moderation decisions.
We may update this policy from time to time to reflect product changes, safety risks, legal requirements, or moderation learnings. When we do, we will publish the updated version here and update the "Last updated" date.
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