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Rules for Users of Pikuco.com

1. General Rules

1.1 Maintain Sportsmanship: Public direct insults to other users and incitement to hatred are prohibited on the site.

  • For insulting a user or inciting hatred in comments, the author will receive a 1-day block on further commenting, for repeated offenses and subsequent ones - a 1-week block (each time).
  • For insulting a user or inciting hatred in content (tests, posts), the content will be deleted, and the author will receive a similar block (one day, then a week) on publishing content of that type (tests or posts).

What is considered an insult?

  • A. Direct statements such as "You are an idiot/fool" and similar negative connotations;
  • B. Insulting one’s dignity by stating the absence of something necessary or presence of something foreign, such as: "You have no brain" / "You have brain cancer", unless the statement is verified (e.g., "You have no arm", if the person has no arm indeed)
  • C. Harsh, unjustified refusals to continue communication, like "Go f**k yourself" / "Get lost" and similar
  • D . Insults to a broad group of people, which may include other site users, such as "All Nibulonites are idiots" or "Anyone who chose Sakura is a loser" .

What is considered incitement to hatred ?

  • A . Calls to harass a specific person or group of people, such as "Let's spam Dan's inbox!" / "Let's make Nibulonites suffer!";
  • B. Insulting broad groups of people with the intent to degrade them, such as "All Nibulonites are idiots." .

1.2 Compete Fairly : Multi - accounting(creating multiple accounts on the site) is prohibited and punishable by banning the primary account .

1.3 We Are Not a Bulletin Board : Links to external resources in content( tests and posts) are allowed only under certain conditions . Open the list. Links to external resources in comments are not allowed .

  • The post or test contains original content and the links lead to the author's pages or channels on other resources;
  • The link leads to an external news or article source, and the post provides comprehensive content of the news ("read more at..." is prohibited);
  • Pages accessible via the links must not advertise goods or services, contain adult content, scam, or content prohibited for publication in the USA;

1.4 Do Not Violate the Laws of the Country where the site is located (USA), so as do not publish inappropriate content: list of prohibited in the USA and inappropriate content.

  • A. Methods of suicide, incitement to suicide;
  • B. Distribution and circulation of narcotic substances, methods of manufacture and use, incitement to use, positive experiences of drug use, as well as distribution and requests for prescription drugs banned from open circulation;
  • C. Instructions on creating, buying, or selling prohibited substances, weapons, explosives, counterfeit documents;
  • D. Obscene content, dismemberment, dead mutilated human bodies, as well as realistic depictions of torture and murders;
  • E. Cruelty to animals (including descriptions of inhumane methods of killing, causing suffering, and torturing animals);
  • F. Calls to spread pirated content, links to pirated resources;
  • G. Pornographic content (all media formats), as well as images of genitalia, anus, images or mentions of children in sexual and erotic contexts;
  • H. Encouragement and calls for network attacks;
  • I. Personal information of third parties: their contact details, photos;
  • J. Instructions for bypassing analytics systems necessary for site performance analysis;
  • K. Content included in federal registers of prohibited materials;
  • L. Begging: asking for money, collecting funds;
  • M. Flood or spam. Repeated comments, posts, and tests that lack substantive content and/or disrupt discussion, or advertising content, as well as calls to inflate and deflate ratings;
  • N. Incitement to hatred - calls for violence or harassment of a person or group of people based on gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, language, origin, religion, or belonging to any social group, or deliberate insults to such groups with the aim of provocation.

1.5 Be a Human: Do not use third-party software for automated passing of tests and tournaments.

1.6 Belt and braces: If a user's actions harm the site, the administration reserves the right to block the user's account.

2. For Test Authors

2.1 Be Cautious: Duplicate content is punishable, even if unintentional. Tests or tournaments that repeat ideas from others and have more than 50% matching questions/answers will be deleted, and the rating for their completion will be reset. Exceptions are cases where the quality of the original test materials has been radically improved; in such situations, the author of the original test receives a share of 10 to 50 percent of the rating from the borrowed test.

2.2 Take care of the Children: Erotic content and obscene language in any form (even with omitted letters) are not allowed in tests and tournaments without appropriate labels "Test contains erotic materials or sexual content / Test contains obscene language", set during publication. Failure to provide the appropriate label results in a penalty of 10 rating points.

2.3 Do Not Embarrass the Audience: Content of nonsense nature will be hidden by the administration and deleted with some delay without the possibility of recovery. This includes:

  • A. Tests aimed at a local audience, when the author indirectly knows everyone who is supposed to take the test (e.g., "Best girl of class 8B" or "Best moderator of streamer Nonamenickname"), published without the label "For friends only";
  • B. Obviously meaningless posts and tests that lack either a clear humorous function or quality of execution/formatting.

2.4 Make an Effort: Content of blatantly poor quality will also be hidden and subsequently deleted but may have a one-time rehabilitation opportunity if the author makes changes within a week after hiding. This includes:

  • A. Tests created intentionally poorly (indirect signs: random and illogical answer options, unclear title and lack of description, poor image quality, many grammatical errors, images unrelated to the essence of the test), without signs of any effort and fresh ideas (having analogues on the site).

2.5 Do Not Take Offense: A month after publication, each test undergoes an automatic review. Tests scoring less than 7 out of 10 and tests aimed at a local audience (hidden) are removed from the site to maintain high content quality and low server load. Tests that have not yet been rated will be reviewed again after another week until they can be rated.

Epilogue

By reading this far, you might think that following these rules is difficult and any content you create will be deleted, but this is not the case.

Yes, some criteria are quite subjective, but this is not to "penalize for every little thing", but because we cannot measure, for example, senselessness mathematically.

The administration will make every effort to consider any controversial situation objectively. As a user, you are required to be simply reasonable, and as an author - to make moderate efforts.

Thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoy your time in our community. Your admin