Acceptable Usage Policy.md

Last updated: 01. Nov, 2024

Community Guidelines

Revolt can cater to your community, raid guild, study group, and anything in-between. We encourage you to:

• Take advantage of our powerful community tools.
• Be kind and make friends with others on our platform.
• Have fun collaborating, communicating, and sharing content.

Online communities have the potential to change people's lives, so we want to encourage a positive environment for anyone willing to join.

Keeping You Safe

To ensure users stay safe on the platform, we explicitly disallow:

• Violent Extremism

  Content that promotes, encourages, or glorifies violent extremist ideologies or activities is not permitted on our platform.

• Misinformation & Conspiracy Theories

  Spreading false or misleading information that can cause harm to individuals or society is prohibited. This includes conspiracy theories that have been debunked or lack credible evidence.

• Hate Speech & Hateful Conduct

  We define hate speech as any form of expression that attacks, promotes harm, or promotes hatred against other people based on their protected characteristics.

  We define the following as protected characteristics: age; caste; colour; disability; ethnicity; family responsibilities; gender; gender identity; housing status; national origin; race; refugee or immigration status; religious affiliation; serious illness; sex; sexual orientation; socioeconomic class and status; source of income; status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking; and weight and size.

• Promoting, Encouraging, or Glorifying Self-Harm or Suicide

  This includes any content that pushes people to cut or injure themselves; that embraces eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia; or that encourages people to commit suicide as opposed to referring them to the correct treatment and help. If you notice someone in need of urgent help, please contact your local authorities.

• Promoting, Organising, or Engaging In Illegal Behaviour on Platform

  Any content or activity that violates applicable laws is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to:

  Local laws: Laws applicable in the user's location of access or residence.
  National laws: Laws of the country where the user is located or where their actions have effect.
  International laws: Widely recognized international laws and treaties.
  Laws of our jurisdictions: As outlined in the "Jurisdiction" section below, we are bound by and enforce laws within specific jurisdictions due to our operational locations and data storage.

  Users are responsible for ensuring their activities comply with all applicable laws and ignorance is not a valid defence for violations.

• Promoting off-platform content that violates our acceptable usage policy

  Sharing links or references to external content with intent to promote content that violates our Community Guidelines is not allowed.

• Sharing content designed to harass or degrade someone, or that can directly threaten someone's physical, mental, or financial state

  This includes death threats, doxing (sharing personal information without permission), or ignoring someone's privacy.

• Sharing any content that violates another person's intellectual property or other rights

  This includes any content that would violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). We respond to DMCA requests as described in our Terms of Service. This includes, but is not limited to, hacking, the cracking or distribution of pirated software, cheats, exploits, or hacks for our or another company, or person's service where it is forbidden.

• Sharing any imagery that depicts real-life violence, gore, or animal cruelty

  An exception is made in regards to violence depicted in media (within the context of journalism, movies, games, music, books, and such).

• Distributing malware

  Any software designed with malicious intent to attack another person or steal their data is not tolerated.

• Impersonation of individuals, groups, etc with intent to cause harm or deception

  Pretending to be another person, organization, or entity in a way that is intended to mislead or harm others is prohibited.

• As a minor, engaging in any conduct that puts your safety at risk

  Any sexual conduct involving minors, whether online or offline, is strictly prohibited and will be reported to the appropriate authorities. We prioritize the safety of our younger users and prohibit any behaviour that could compromise their well-being.

• Sharing sexually explicit content in places where it can't be age restricted

  Sexually explicit content must be properly age-gated and should not be shared in unrestricted areas of the platform.

Keeping It Fair

To ensure users have equal opportunity to use the service and are not taken advantage of, we disallow:

• Unsolicited advertising

  Creating accounts or using existing accounts to send unsolicited advertisements to other people on the platform.

• Financial scams / fraud

  Any attempt to deceive users for financial gain, including phishing, multi level marketing, or other fraudulent activities.

• Buying and selling of Revolt accounts

  The transfer of Revolt accounts for monetary or other compensation is not permitted.

• Selling, purchasing, or providing means to artificially grow servers

  This includes botting, paid advertisements, and any other methods of artificially inflating server membership or engagement. Legitimate marketing efforts and community-building strategies that don't involve artificial inflation of metrics are generally acceptable. If you're unsure whether a growth strategy violates this policy, please contact our support team for clarification.

• Evasion of permanent platform level moderation actions

  Attempting to circumvent bans or other moderation actions by creating new accounts or using alternative methods to access the platform is prohibited.

• Attempts to hack or otherwise gain unauthorised access to our service

  Any attempt to compromise the security of our platform or its users, including but not limited to phishing attacks, unauthorised access to user accounts, distribution or creation of malware, or Denial of Service attacks, is strictly forbidden. This also includes attempts to gain access to our backend networks. Please contact us ahead of time for permission to test our networks by emailing [email protected].

• Abusing our server resources

  Using Revolt with malicious intent, in a way that is not reasonable under normal usage, in order to outsource computing and/or storage resources to our servers, as well as other forms of Denial of Service to our infrastructure.

• Automation of user actions

  Automated activity from user accounts that is performed without explicit, manual initiation by the account holder is forbidden.

• Non-consensual gathering of personally identifiable information

  We do not permit the gathering of any personally identifiable information (PII) without end-user consent. This includes, but is not limited to, the automated scraping of messages, member lists, and user profiles without explicit permission from the users whose data is being collected.

• Misleading the support team

  Providing false information or making fraudulent reports to our support team is prohibited.

Reporting Violations

To report any of the above activity, please use the in-app reporting system. If you cannot use the in-app reporting system for any reason, please contact us at [email protected].

Strikes and Suspensions

Violations of these Community Guidelines, or other platform terms, may result in strikes against your account. Strikes are irreversible. Account suspensions can be removed through a successful appeal, but only if you believe that we took the wrong action. There is no point asking to be appealed for breaking the law.

If you wish to appeal a suspension, please contact [email protected].

Off-Platform Behavior

In certain cases, we may take action based on off-platform behaviour, particularly when it involves severe violations of our policies or legal issues.

Jurisdiction

We abide by laws within the following jurisdictions:

Jurisdiction	Reason
United Kingdom	Service operator
Germany, Finland, Netherlands	Data storage
Lithuania, Netherlands	Media storage
European Union	Encompasses our area of operation