Community guidelines

1. Who this applies to

Everyone with an account, and everything you publish through one: reviews, lists, profile text, avatars, backgrounds, music and other uploads, names, studio pages and updates, and anything you send to another member or to us.

These guidelines are part of the Terms of Service and sit alongside the law. Something can be legal and still not belong here.

2. Writing about games

Write about the game. Say what it does, how it felt, who you think it is for. A review that is really about the developer's politics, the publisher's last game, or the people who disagree with you is not a review.

Disliking something is not an insult and nobody has to justify their taste. Saying a game is not for you is always fine. Saying that people who like it are stupid is not.

• Mark spoilers before you write them, and assume the reader has not finished the game.
• Do not review a game you have not played to make a point about something else.
• Do not organise or join a coordinated push to raise or sink a game's rating. Ratings are worth something only while they mean what they say.
• If you work on a game, or were given it for free, say so when you review it.

3. How to treat people

Argue with the point, not the person. You will meet people here whose favourite game you think is worthless; that is most of the value of the place.

• No harassment, pile-ons, or following somebody around the site to keep arguing.
• No attacks based on who somebody is - race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• No threats of violence, and no encouraging anyone to hurt themselves.
• No posting private information about anyone, including yourself. Real names, addresses, workplaces, and photographs of people who did not agree to be here do not belong on a games site.

4. Content that is not allowed

• Sexual content involving minors, in any form, drawn or otherwise. It is reported to the police and the account is removed permanently.
• Content that sexualises real people who have not consented.
• Sexually explicit content - pornography and nudity meant to arouse - anywhere on Moymo: in avatars, backgrounds, videos, cursors, music covers, profile text and studio pages. Moymo is open to people from 15, and showing pornography to children is a crime in the Czech Republic, where Moymo is run, as in most other countries.
• Gore and graphic violence shown to shock: real injuries, dead bodies, cruelty to people or animals. A game's own screenshots and trailers are not this.
• Praise, promotion or fundraising for terrorism or mass violence.
• Material that infringes somebody else's rights: pasted review text, art, photos or fonts you have no right to share, music you have no licence to publish online, and links to pirated copies.
• Malware, phishing, and links whose destination is disguised.
• Advertising, referral spam, and bulk unsolicited messages.
• Deliberately false information about a real person presented as fact.
• Links to anything on this list. A link on your profile is something you publish, so what it leads to has to follow the same rules.
• Anything else that is illegal in the Czech Republic or in the country it is aimed at.

5. Accounts

• You must be at least 15 years old.
• One person, one account. Extra accounts used to evade a suspension, inflate a rating, farm invitations or enter a giveaway twice are removed together.
• Do not impersonate another person, a developer, a publisher, or Moymo itself, and do not link another person's game or social accounts as yours.
• Do not automate the site without asking first. Reading it with a script is usually fine; writing to it with one is not.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account. Use a password you do not use anywhere else.

6. Reporting something

Anything on Moymo can be reported with the notice form, with or without an account; reviews also have a report button. Use it rather than replying - a reply is visible to everyone and a report is read by a moderator.

Tell us where it is and which rule or law you think it breaks. Reports that say only that something is wrong take longest to act on, because the first thing a moderator has to do is work out what you meant.

Reporting somebody repeatedly for things that are not rule breaks is itself a rule break.

7. What happens when a rule is broken

The response is meant to match what happened, and to be reversible wherever it can be. Depending on how serious it is:

• the content is removed, or its visibility is restricted;
• a feature is switched off for the account or the studio - for example a custom domain or the studio programme - for a period or for good;
• the account is suspended, for a stated period or until a stated condition is met;
• the account is suspended with no end date, for serious or repeated breaks. The things listed under content that is not allowed can lead to this on the first occurrence.

Every time, you are told what was done, which rule or law it was based on and why, in a statement of reasons that arrives as a notification and by e-mail. All of them are listed on My moderation decisions.

Decisions are made by a person. Nothing is removed or hidden automatically, and nothing here is decided by a model.

8. If you think a decision was wrong

Appeal within six months on My moderation decisions, or through the link in the e-mail if you cannot sign in. Say why, and add anything we did not know.

You will get an answer from a person, with reasons. If the decision was wrong it is reversed and the content or account comes back. Other ways to resolve a dispute are described in the Terms of Service.