Hiddout is a platform for communities to discuss, connect, and share in a more closed environment. The nature of the content might be funny, serious, offensive, or anywhere in between. While participating, it’s important to keep in mind this value above all others: show enough respect to others so that we may all continue to enjoy Hiddout for what it is.
While Hiddout generally provides a lot of leeway in what content is acceptable, here are some guidelines for content that is not. Please keep in mind the spirit in which these were written, and looking for loopholes is a waste of time.
Content is prohibited if it:
- Is illegal;
- Is involuntary pornography;
- Is sexual or suggestive content involving minors;
- Encourages or incites violence;
- Threatens, harasses, or bullies or encourages others to do so;
- Is personal and confidential information;
- Impersonates someone in a misleading or deceptive manner;
- Uses Hiddout to solicit or facilitate any transaction or gift involving certain goods and services(such as Firearms, Drugs, Paid services involving physical sexual contact) ;
- Is spam.
In addition to not submitting unwelcome content, the following behaviors are prohibited on Hiddout:
- Asking for votes or engaging in vote manipulation
- Breaking Hiddout or doing anything that interferes with normal use of Hiddout
- Creating multiple accounts to evade punishment or avoid restrictions
Content that contains nudity, pornography, or profanity, which a reasonable viewer may not want to be seen accessing in a public or formal setting such as in a workplace should be tagged as NSFW.
We have a variety of ways of enforcing our rules, including, but not limited to
- Asking you nicely to knock it off;
- Asking you less nicely;
- Temporary or permanent suspension of accounts;
- Removal of privileges from, or adding restrictions to, accounts;
- Adding restrictions to post, such as adding NSFW tags;
- Removal of content;
- Banning of Hiddout.
Individual moderator on Hiddout may have their own rules in addition to ours to enforce them. Hiddout provides tools to aid moderators, but does not prescribe their usage.