1. Captain Obvious to the Rescue

• You cannot post illegal material.

• You cannot dox or harass users.

• You cannot post malicious links.

• You cannot post things that are intended to disgust people.

• Use your common sense.

If you can't do it in the United States (where the images are located) or Germany (where the data is located), you can't do it here.

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2. Lurk Moar But Don't Be Afraid

Browse through threads and lurk before posting.

• This is not 4chan or any other imageboard you have visited previously.
• If I had to compare this website to anything, it would be Something Awful forums circa 2002.
• If that's something you're familiar with, you probably get what we're going for. If not that's fine.
• Once you've looked around a bit, don't be afraid to post.
• If you post something stupid, it's not the end of the world. It's just a dumb website.

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3. What Do You Mean by Harassing Users?

There's two types of users.

1. Named Users
2. Anonymous Users

A named user registers an account and has the ability to post as a pseudonym. They get a few nice features like:

• Upload a 88x31 button and link it to their website (available in Signature Options), so every post links back to their website
• Post without having to do captchas
• Edit and delete their posts
• Less aggressive ratelimit, making it easier to post larger quantity of content to a thread
• and more

We also have anonymous users.

• Because it's fun.
• It keeps things moving more than they otherwise would.
• It lets someone who stumbles upon the site drop a comment and move on.
• Users can try out the site before they invest their time into making an account.

Named users are frankly more valuable to the culture of the website.

• They're more likely to have lurked enough to understand where they are.
• You can learn more from them as you're lurking yourself.
• They're more likely to return and post again.

For that reason I'm always going prioritize their needs before anons.

Named users should:

• Aggressively correct anonymous users when they don't understand the culture of the site.
• Try to give named users the benefit of the doubt and help them to better understand the site.

You can't use the anonymous functionality of the site just to shit on named users; that's what it means.

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4. Post on the Correct Board

The expectations of a given board are pretty self explanatory from the name and description.

Each board has additional rules that appear next to the posting form. Be sure to read these.

The simplest way to think of it:

1. If there's a topical board for what you want to post, like /music/, /art/, or /tech/, use that board.
2. Are you giving feedback of some kind about the site? Use /meta/.
3. Are you putting effort into a post? Is it something other users might have something to say about the topic? Use /main/.
4. Is what you're posting completely stupid edge lord garbage? Just post it in /trash/ and most likely no one cares.

Mods may move threads around, so if you see your thread isn't where you put it, it's more likely that it got moved than deleted. Just look for it.

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5. Post on the Correct Thread?

This is not something you need to worry about. If you want to make a new thread, go for it. Just put it on the right board!

Any new thread with a good thumbnail, title, and description is fun to see on the front page and psychologically makes the site appear to be moving when users return.

What's more important: Don't derail topical threads to discuss something unrelated as much as possible.

The worst offender is dumping your feedback about the site into the first thread you see.

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6. On Self Promotion

Plugging your site is baked into the functionality of the board. As long as you're not breaking other rules, it's fine. I recommend:

• Make a thread for your site or project as a named user.
• This will ensure that you can edit and delete the thread and you'll have agency in regard to how your project is presented.
• Make a button and upload it to your signature as a named user, so it will appear next to all of your posts.
• You can link the button to anything you want and change it at any time.

To become a named user, register an account.

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7. Not Sure What's Acceptable?

The best way to be sure is to just reach out. Ask on /meta/ or use our Discord.