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Ponybooru is an image archive centered around the MLP:FiM community, it is expected to uphold the nature of an archive. Below you can find our terms of use and moderation policies.
Terms of Use
By using Ponybooru you agree to the following conditions:
- Content uploaded to the service is licensed to us on a limited basis for the purposes of displaying the content
- We are not legally liable for uploaded content, liability resides with the uploader.
- We have a clear process in place to remove infringing works.
- You must also agree to our privacy policy and our site rules.
Moderation Policy And Transparency
The following is a work in progress to our moderation policy. Subject to change. Major changes will be publicly announced.
Administrative action:
Users will typically receive administrative puinishment in this order for violations of site rules, permitting they are not highly egregious or repeat violations.
- Verbal warning: This may come as a private message, a users comment deleted with reason stated, or a public reply to something a user has done.
- 1-24 hour ban: An unappealable warning ban.
- 1-7 day ban: Appeal dependent on infraction, Short term ban.
- 1 week-2 week ban:long term ban.
- 2 Weeks and beyond: The exact length of ban beyond a 2 week period is subject to percevied intent, level of severity and number of intentional repetative violations.
We do not currently have specific policy on when violations "fall off" a users record. We handle violations and repeat violations on a case by case basis.
Staff Auditing: Staff member are required to make entries into the Mod Audit Log when performing specific actions. Here are the typical actions that should be audited by staff members. Some actions may not require public entries, actions that typically effect more then one user will be logged. Actions against individuals will typically be directed toward individuals. This list is not all enccompassing but we strive to have it cover all major points.
- Bans: Bans are a matter of public interest, barring privacy sensitive information, bans will be publicly logged.
- Image/Video Deletion: Publicly logged.
- Comment Deletion: Barring privacy sensitive information, comments will be copied and logged.
- Username changes: If a users name must be changed due to a rule violation, we will typcially give the user a place holdername indicating the reason for their name change. This does not typically get logged.
- Profile picture removal: Private message.
- Forum thread Deletion: Logged, very rare.
- Forum thread locked: Lock reason acts as log entry.
- Forum thread moved to different forum section: A reply to the thread stating where and why it has been moved should be made by a staff member.
Users Rights to Audit:
Users should have no fear and face no reprocutions when questioning, appealing, or auditing the actions of staff. Users are encouraged to publicly or privately "audit" any and all staff actions as they see fit. If you believe you have been unjustly punished for auditing a staff members decision, please contact another staff member. If you believe you have been banned as a result of unjust decision making, please contact us on discord or by email. Note: Only admins have acccess to the the ponybooru email, it is also checked infrequently. Please consider this when making a ban appeal.
Please remember our staff members are only human. If you believe something has not be correctly audited, please make this know in the Mod Audit Log