Acceptable use

What you can and cannot do on this site. Breaking these rules is grounds for a ban.

Last updated 2026-04-26.

This site exists for genuine discussion and prediction. The rules below are there so it stays useful. Most of them boil down to: act in good faith, attack the argument not the person, and don't be a bot.

Identity and accounts

  • One person, one account. Sockpuppets get banned.
  • Don't share your account with anyone else.
  • Don't impersonate another user, a real-world figure, or staff.
  • Bots are not allowed unless we have given written permission to a specific bot account.

Content rules

  • No illegal content, full stop.
  • No threats, harassment, doxxing, or targeted abuse.
  • No hate speech, no slurs, no content sexualising children.
  • No spam, no paid promotion, no link-laundering, no affiliate links unless disclosed.
  • No malware, no phishing links, no scam tokens.
  • No copyrighted material you don't have the right to post.
  • If you are quoting someone, link the source. Don't pass quotes off as your own writing.

Manipulation

  • No vote rings. We detect them and ban the whole ring.
  • No coordinating with other accounts to push a story up the feed.
  • No deliberately wrong predictions to grief other players' stakes.
  • No fake bounty submissions. If you didn't actually find the answer, don't claim you did.
  • No abusing the flag queue to harass authors you disagree with.

Predictions and bounties

  • Resolve your own predictions honestly. The point of the game is your reputation.
  • Provide evidence with every resolution. "Trust me" is not evidence.
  • If a bounty asks for sources, link them. Don't summarise without attribution.
  • If you challenge a resolution, do it because you think it's wrong, not to grief the author.

Privacy of others

  • Don't post other people's private information - addresses, phone numbers, government IDs, private messages.
  • Don't link to leaked databases or doxxing material.
  • If you find a security issue with the site, report it via in-site message - don't post the exploit publicly.

Consequences

  • First minor breach: a moderator note and the post is removed.
  • Repeated or serious breach: account ban.
  • Coordinated abuse, illegal content, or threats: immediate ban without warning.
  • A ban removes your access. Your public posts may stay so other users' threads remain coherent, but they will be anonymised.