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Acceptable Use & Community Safety Policy

Policy Updated: September 2026

SkiveCore is a platform for open, adult conversation, creative expression, and community building. We balance robust free‑expression values with clear acceptable use standards, organizational safety rules, and legal requirements. The platform is 16+; explicit adult content must be placed behind 18+ settings. Private one‑to‑one direct messages are end‑to‑end encrypted (E2EE) so that SkiveCore servers do not hold the decryption keys needed to read your plaintext messages in transit.

Standards are indexed by section and clause number (e.g., 1.1.1, 3.2.1) for direct reference in moderation actions, support tickets, and appeals.

1. Core Safety & Severe Prohibited Abuses

The following categories of conduct cause direct, irreparable harm and are strictly prohibited across all public surfaces, groups, channels, and platform tools:

1.1 Child Safety & Exploitation (Zero Tolerance)

  • 1.1.1 Absolute Prohibition on CSAM/CSAE: Any depiction, generation, hosting, or sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material or Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse is strictly prohibited, immediately terminated, and reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and relevant law enforcement authorities.
  • 1.1.2 Comprehensive Protection Beyond Explicit Imagery: Sexual grooming, sexual solicitation of minors, sextortion, child trafficking facilitation, recruitment, requests for sexual images, and attempts by adults to move minors off-platform for sexual purposes are strictly prohibited, regardless of whether explicit imagery has yet been exchanged.
  • 1.1.3 Age Requirement: SkiveCore is strictly for users aged 16 and older. Any account operated by an individual under 16 will be closed immediately upon identification.
  • 1.1.4 Non-Sexual Child Abuse & Severe Endangerment: Content depicting, encouraging, facilitating, or celebrating physical child abuse, torture, severe battery, child neglect, or severe psychological cruelty against minors for purposes of glorification, encouragement, humiliation, entertainment, or exploitation is strictly prohibited. Documentary, journalistic, educational, courtroom reporting, evidentiary, or awareness-raising depictions may be permitted with appropriate sensitive-content warnings and discovery restrictions.

1.2 Suicide, Serious Self-Harm & Eating Disorders

  • 1.2.1 Prohibited Self-Harm Conduct: Encouragement, instruction, coercion, competitive glorification, or facilitating acts of suicide or serious self-injury are strictly prohibited. You may not host suicide pacts, share lethal self-harm instructions, or bully someone into self-injury.
  • 1.2.2 Eating Disorders & Extreme Starvation: Content that promotes, glorifies, encourages, or provides actionable instructions for anorexia, bulimia, severe bingeing/purging, extreme starvation regimens, or dangerous non-medical weight-loss techniques is prohibited.
  • 1.2.3 Protected Recovery & Support Speech: We explicitly distinguish between harmful encouragement and genuine personal expression. Discussing personal struggles, sharing stories of recovery, coping strategies, creative writing, or reaching out for mental health support (e.g., stating “I used to struggle with an eating disorder and need support”) is permitted.
  • 1.2.4 Immediate Crisis Resources: If you or someone you know is in crisis, please contact local emergency services or dial 988 (in the US & Canada) for free, confidential, 24/7 suicide and mental health crisis support.

1.3 Adult Sexual Exploitation Beyond NCII

  • 1.3.1 Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (NCII): Sharing, threatening to share, or soliciting non-consensual sexual photographs or videos (“revenge porn”) is strictly prohibited.
  • 1.3.2 Voyeurism & Hidden-Camera Media: Recording or distributing intimate footage taken without full, informed consent (including hidden-camera recordings, “upskirting,” or bathroom recordings) is prohibited.
  • 1.3.3 Sexual Extortion & Coercion (Sextortion): Blackmailing or coercing individuals through threats to disclose intimate media, sensitive secrets, or personal data is banned.
  • 1.3.4 Synthetic Intimate Imagery & Deepfakes: Knowingly creating, uploading, or distributing sexually explicit altered media, deepfakes, or synthetic intimate depictions of real people without their explicit consent is strictly prohibited.

1.4 Credible Threats vs. Rhetorical Speech

  • 1.4.1 Credible Threats Prohibited: Statements expressing an intention to commit violence, cause serious bodily harm, or carry out a violent crime against a specific person, group, or location are prohibited.
  • 1.4.2 Contextual Evaluation & Rhetorical Speech: We explicitly distinguish genuine threats from protected rhetorical speech. Hyperbole, jokes, dark humor, fictional creative writing, heated political commentary, and hyperbolic expressions of frustration (e.g., “I’m gonna murder whoever invented this UI”) are not automatically treated as credible threats.
  • 1.4.3 Threat Evaluation Factors: Threat assessments consider the specificity of the threat, the identified target, apparent capability, context, imminence, and surrounding patterns of conduct.
  • 1.4.4 Swatting & Weaponized Emergency Dispatches: Coordinating, attempting, threatening, facilitating, or knowingly providing false emergency information intended to cause armed emergency services to be dispatched against another person is strictly prohibited, subject to immediate account termination and referral to law enforcement where legally required or reasonably necessary to address a credible threat.

1.5 Privacy Violations & Sensitive Information (Beyond Doxxing)

  • 1.5.1 Targeted Harassment via Doxxing: Publishing non-public personal information with the intent to harass, intimidate, or endanger someone is prohibited.
  • 1.5.2 Broader Sensitive Data Restriction: Regardless of stated intent, publishing highly sensitive, non-public personal data without legitimate public-interest or legal justification is strictly prohibited. This includes:
    • Residential addresses and private unlisted phone numbers of private individuals
    • Government identification numbers (SSNs, passport numbers, national IDs)
    • Financial account credentials, banking details, and credit card numbers
    • Confidential personal medical and health records
    • Real-time precise personal live locations (live tracking)
    • Account passwords, private cryptographic keys, and multi-factor authentication tokens

1.6 Human Trafficking, Forced Labor & Severe Exploitation

  • 1.6.1 Forced Labor & Domestic Servitude: Recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining an individual for labor or services through force, fraud, debt bondage, involuntary servitude, or coercion is strictly prohibited.
  • 1.6.2 Human Smuggling, Illegal Adoption & Orphanage Trafficking: Facilitating commercial human smuggling operations, fraudulent or commercial child adoptions, or using orphanage/residential childcare entities for human trafficking is strictly barred.
  • 1.6.3 Forced Marriage, Child Soldiers & Coerced Criminality: Coercing individuals into forced or child marriages, recruiting or using child soldiers in armed conflict, or compelling persons into criminal conduct through threats or physical confinement is banned.
  • 1.6.4 Commercial Sex Trafficking: Recruiting, harboring, transporting, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting any person for commercial sex through force, fraud, or coercion, or any commercial sexual exploitation involving minors, carries zero platform tolerance, resulting in immediate account termination, evidence preservation, and referral to appropriate law enforcement or victim-protection authorities where required by law or reasonably necessary to protect victims.

1.7 Animal Cruelty & Abuse

  • 1.7.1 Animal Cruelty, Torture & Fighting Prohibited: Coordinating, encouraging, supporting, or admitting to animal cruelty, intentional torture, deliberate infliction of suffering, bestiality, or animal fighting staged for entertainment (such as dogfighting, cockfighting, or animal baiting) is strictly prohibited. Depictions of animal cruelty are prohibited when shared for glorification, entertainment, encouragement, fetishization, sadism, or commercial promotion.
  • 1.7.2 Journalistic, Advocacy & Lawful Exceptions: Documentary, journalistic, educational, evidentiary, animal-welfare advocacy, and public condemnation contexts remain permitted with appropriate sensitive-content labeling. Furthermore, SkiveCore explicitly distinguishes cruelty from standard, lawful human practices: content depicting lawful hunting, fishing, agricultural animal husbandry, food production, pest and predator control, culinary preparation, authorized veterinary procedures, or humane euthanasia (mercy killing) is permitted.

2. Organizational Eligibility: Exclusionary & Race-Specific Groups Prohibited

SkiveCore provides tools for individuals to connect, create, and communicate freely. However, to maintain an open and lawful community, organizational pages, channels, and groups are held to strict eligibility criteria regarding discrimination, exclusivity, and public service.

“Charity knows neither color nor race.” — Saint Martin de Porres

“We must speak to them with our hands, by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.” — Saint Peter Claver

“God makes no distinction between people.” — Saint Teresa of Ávila

2.1 Prohibited Exclusionary Collectives

  • 2.1.1 No Race-Specific or Ethnically Exclusionary Organizations: Groups, pages, channels, and official accounts may not represent, promote, recruit for, or organize around organizations whose identity, membership criteria, founding charter, or primary mission is race-specific or structured around a single racial or ethnic demographic.
  • 2.1.2 Broad Prohibition on Exclusionary Collectives: Organizations, associations, and clubs that promote racial separation, racial supremacy, ethno-nationalism, or institutional exclusion based on race, ethnicity, ancestry, or immutable demographic characteristics are strictly prohibited from establishing an organizational presence on the platform.
  • 2.1.3 Scope Across Platform Surfaces: This policy applies to public and private community groups, dedicated creator pages, official organization handles, promotional channels, and coordinated recruitment hubs.
  • 2.1.4 Distinction Between Individual Discourse and Organizational Operation: This rule governs organizational operation and group formation. Users remain free to discuss, critique, and debate civil rights, history, public policy, and social issues as individuals within lawful boundaries, but exclusionary entities may not operate organizational structures on SkiveCore.

2.2 Specialization vs. Exclusion

2.2.1 Legitimate Specialization Permitted: We draw a firm, practical distinction between legitimate specialization and discriminatory exclusion. Geographic, linguistic, cultural, or needs-based specialization is entirely permitted—even when that focus naturally results in an overwhelmingly single-ethnicity clientele or participant base.

2.2.2 Demographic Mission Gating Prohibited: For example, an organization operating in a localized neighborhood heavily concentrated around a specific immigrant or cultural diaspora, employing native-language staff, offering specialized language and integration resources, and tailoring its programming to local community needs is fully permitted. Operating where a community resides, speaking their native language, and addressing localized needs is commendable service. However, restricting an organization’s charter, mission, or assistance to members of that specific demographic—to the exclusion of an otherwise eligible person of a different background who requires that assistance—is prohibited.

2.3 Ethnicity Cannot Be a Proxy Gate

2.3.1 Reality Over Boilerplate Disclaimers: Technically stating in fine print that “everyone is welcome” or “all are invited” is not necessarily sufficient to satisfy this policy. If an organization’s stated mission, branding, visual identity, intake process, or daily operations reasonably communicate that otherwise-qualified individuals of other racial or ethnic backgrounds are not actually intended or welcome to participate, the organization will be evaluated based on that reality rather than boilerplate disclaimers. Openness must be genuine in practice, not an evasive legalistic veneer.

2.4 How Perceived Exclusion Is Evaluated

To ensure fair and objective administration, SkiveCore does not rely solely on an individual moderator’s personal impression, subjective sensibilities, or private worldview.

  • 2.4.1 Multi-Perspective Methodology: We evaluate evidence and structured feedback from individuals representing diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds to assess whether a reasonable observer from outside the primary demographic perceives an exclusionary barrier or intentional discouragement.
  • 2.4.2 Evidence Considered: Reviews weigh objective, verifiable materials, including founding documents, published mission statements, public promotional and recruitment media, intake protocols, operational conduct, documented patterns of service delivery, and cross-demographic community feedback.
  • 2.4.3 Exploitation Prevention: To prevent bad-faith actors from gaming or engineering compliance around rigid quotas, SkiveCore evaluates the totality of the circumstances rather than publishing an exploitable numerical threshold.

2.5 Practical Application Examples

  • 2.5.1 Permitted: A community assistance organization operates in a heavily diaspora-concentrated neighborhood, employs staff fluent in the local native language, offers specialized translation and integration resources, and consequently serves an overwhelmingly single-ethnicity clientele, while keeping its services open to anyone meeting its needs-based eligibility criteria.
  • 2.5.2 Not Permitted: An organization limits its mission, charter, membership, or services to members of a particular racial or ethnic group.
  • 2.5.3 Potentially Not Permitted: An organization formally accepts everyone on paper, but presents its mission and services in a manner that reasonably communicates that otherwise-eligible people outside one racial or ethnic group aren't actually welcome or intended to participate.

3. Violent & Dangerous Organizations, Riots & Public Damage

SkiveCore maintains zero tolerance for organized physical destruction, civil violence, or intimidation. Groups and organizations that advocate for or engage in terrorism, violent extremism, riots, looting, arson, or public property destruction are barred from the platform.

3.1 Riots, Civil Unrest & Destructive Movements

  • 3.1.1 Rioting, Civil Violence & Public Damage Prohibited: Organizations, movements, collectives, and networks that have organized, called for, incited, or participated in riots, violent civil unrest, or the destruction of public or private property—whether in person or through coordinated online campaigns—are strictly prohibited from holding accounts, groups, or pages on SkiveCore.
  • 3.1.2 Universal Application Across Chapters and Arms: This disqualification applies universally across the entire entity, including the parent organization, regional and municipal chapters, specialized sub-entities, operational arms, youth wings, and any affiliated enforcement or militant branches.
  • 3.1.3 Online & Physical Scope: This prohibition encompasses groups coordinating physical street riots, arson, and vandalism as well as coordinated digital sabotage, distributed denial attacks, and online campaigns designed to disable civic infrastructure or cause real-world harm.

3.2 Defining “Acting Under a Banner”: The Practical Standard

Modern movements often utilize decentralized structures or loose organizational affiliations. SkiveCore applies a balanced, realistic standard to determine when groups or factions are operating under an organization’s banner:

  • 3.2.1 Protection Against Isolated Bad Actors & Bad-Faith Framing: We do not hold an organization accountable merely because an isolated individual or rogue agitator held a printed sign or waved a flag on a single afternoon without prior connection to the group. A single bad actor waving a placard is not automatically imputed to a broader movement.
  • 3.2.2 No Requirement for Formal Incorporation: Conversely, organizations cannot evade accountability by maintaining intentional legal ambiguity, decentralization, or claiming that local groups lack “formal chapter certification” or corporate non-profit charters. A group does not need to exist for a decade or hold official paperwork to be recognized as an active faction of a movement.
  • 3.2.3 Decentralized, Unchartered, or Independent Local Groups: When local collectives operate independently without formal parent charters, but regularly organize under the movement’s name and branding, convene recurring meetings, coordinate regional demonstrations, or run public organizing channels, their actions reflect directly upon the broader movement. If a movement operates largely through independent, self-constituted local collectives, the movement cannot celebrate their size when peaceful and disclaim them when destructive.
  • 3.2.4 Decentralized “Concept” or “Idea-Only” Movements: Movements that claim to be merely a “loose philosophy,” “unincorporated idea,” or “distributed network” rather than an organization will still be classified as an organization/movement where recognizable coordination exists. This includes recurring use of shared symbology, standardized tactical dress, common slogans, synchronized calls to action, or distributed cells and affinity groups acting in concert. A group cannot claim immunity by labeling itself an “idea” if its coordinated cells engage in riots, street violence, or property damage.

3.3 Standard of Accountability for Demonstrations & Co-Protesting

  • 3.3.1 Shared Demonstrations and Banners: If an organization calls, promotes, or participates in public demonstrations where rioting, looting, arson, assault, or property damage takes place, it cannot disclaim responsibility if destructive factions operated under its banner, displayed its insignia, or marched in concert with the event.
  • 3.3.2 Procedural Definition of “Prompt” Condemnation: We do not impose an arbitrary, rigid 24, 48, or 72-hour countdown clock. Instead, organizations are expected to publicly condemn known rioting, violence, or property destruction reasonably soon after becoming aware that it is occurring alongside, adjacent to, or in connection with activities they are promoting or organizing. Organizations are not required immediately to determine the specific identities of the perpetrators or prematurely concede affiliation before denouncing the destructive conduct itself.
  • 3.3.3 Separating Conduct Condemnation from Affiliation Findings: SkiveCore recognizes a clear procedural distinction between immediately condemning destructive conduct and later establishing specific organizational ties:
    • Phase 1 (Conduct Condemnation): An organization can and should immediately issue an unreserved public statement: “We unequivocally condemn the rioting, violence, and property destruction taking place alongside these demonstrations.”
    • Phase 2 (Affiliation Repudiation): Later, as verifiable facts, investigations, or official records emerge, the organization can formally and specifically repudiate any distinct groups, factions, or individuals determined to have acted under its banner or exploited its platform.
  • 3.3.4 Case-by-Case Evaluation Factors for Promptness: When assessing whether leadership acted with reasonable promptness, SkiveCore considers:
    • Knowledge: When leadership knew or reasonably should have known that violence or property destruction was taking place.
    • Prominence: How widely, prominently, and publicly reported the conduct was in real time across news and media channels.
    • Active Mobilization: Whether the organization was actively mobilizing, directing, or communicating with participants while the destruction was occurring.
    • Investigative Need: Whether verifying the facts on the ground required practical investigation.
    • Attribution Timing: When reliable attribution and public evidence became reasonably accessible.
  • 3.3.5 Tacit Endorsement Through Silence: Demonstrating or protesting alongside destructive factions while those factions engage in rioting or damage—without reasonably and publicly condemning those acts—constitutes tacit endorsement under this policy and results in platform revocation.

3.4 Dangerous Organizations & Material Support

  • 3.4.1 Dangerous & Violent Organizations Prohibited: Entities recognized as terrorist organizations, violent extremist factions, mass-casualty perpetrators, or organized violent criminal cartels/syndicates are strictly prohibited from establishing or maintaining an organizational presence, group, or page on SkiveCore. Designations may be based on applicable national or international government sanctions or terrorism lists, final criminal court judgments, verified law-enforcement findings, or an independent SkiveCore factual determination supported by documented, verifiable evidence of organized serious violence.
  • 3.4.2 Material Support Prohibited: Providing material support (as defined in 10.1.11)—including operational recruitment, logistical coordination, crowd-funding, technical facilitation, or operational backing—to banned organizations, violent movements, or designated dangerous entities is strictly prohibited.
  • 3.4.3 Journalistic & Academic Analysis Protected: Independent news reporting, historical documentation, academic analysis, and civil policy debates discussing or analyzing dangerous organizations are protected activities provided they do not facilitate recruitment or deliver material support.

4. Commercial Integrity, Fraud & Dangerous Goods

SkiveCore supports commerce, creator monetization, and open financial discourse, but strictly prohibits using the platform to defraud users or facilitate unlawful transactions.

4.1 Fraud, Scams & Deceptive Schemes

Using SkiveCore to conduct, promote, or orchestrate fraudulent schemes is prohibited. Prohibited activities include:

  • 4.1.1 Phishing & Credential Theft: Deceptively soliciting login credentials, session tokens, or private keys.
  • 4.1.2 Investment & Cryptocurrency Fraud: Promoting deceptive high-yield schemes, "pump-and-dump" operations, bogus initial coin offerings, or fraudulent trading platforms.
  • 4.1.3 Romance & Confidence Scams: Feigning romantic or personal relationships to systematically extract money or assets.
  • 4.1.4 Staff Impersonation: Posing as SkiveCore support, moderators, administrators, or service technicians to deceive users.
  • 4.1.5 Deceptive Giveaways & Sweepstakes: Advertising fake prizes, lotteries, or rewards requiring upfront fees or data surrender.
  • 4.1.6 Pyramid & Ponzi Schemes: Multi-level recruitment schemes promising payments primarily derived from enrolling others.
  • 4.1.7 Fraudulent Fundraising: Deceptive crowdfunding campaigns, fake charitable appeals, or misrepresenting how donated funds will be utilized.
  • 4.1.8 Stolen Financial Data & Carding: Buying, selling, trading, or utilizing stolen credit cards, bank credentials, or compromised accounts.
  • 4.1.9 Advance-Fee Fraud: Deceptive promises of large transfers conditioned on upfront "processing" or "clearance" fees.
  • 4.1.10 Protected Fraud Exposure: Analytical discussion, investigative reporting, or consumer warnings that expose or critique scams are permitted.

4.2 Regulated, Controlled & Dangerous Goods

Users may not use SkiveCore to buy, sell, barter, broker, or facilitate the transfer of:

  • 4.2.1 Illicit Drugs & Controlled Substances: Illegal narcotics, unauthorized prescription drugs, drug paraphernalia, or synthetic chemical equivalents.
  • 4.2.2 Firearms, Ammunition & Explosives: Direct sales, trades, or facilitation of firearms, firearm components, ammunition, explosives, or 3D-printing weapon blueprints.
  • 4.2.3 Stolen Merchandise & Data Exfiltration: Goods, data, intellectual assets, or commercial inventories acquired through theft, burglary, or unauthorized digital extraction.
  • 4.2.4 Hazardous, Toxic & Biological Materials: Highly toxic chemicals, biological agents, radioactive materials, or dangerous explosive precursor substances.
  • 4.2.5 Counterfeit Currency & Financial Instruments: Forged banknotes, counterfeit currency, fraudulent checks, or fake financial bonds and negotiable instruments.
  • 4.2.6 Counterfeit Credentials: Fake IDs, forged passports, fake academic degrees, or fraudulent government paperwork.
  • 4.2.7 Human Remains & Organs: Human organs, tissues, remains, or related biological specimens.
  • 4.2.8 Protected Wildlife: Endangered species, poached animal parts (such as ivory), or illicit exotic wildlife products.
  • 4.2.9 Recalled Products & Unregulated Pharmaceuticals: Recalled consumer products presenting severe imminent physical safety hazards, or unauthorized non-prescribed pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
  • 4.2.10 Illicit Gambling, Tobacco & Alcohol Transactions: Unlicensed online gambling operations, illegal commercial sports wagering, unlawful sales of tobacco and nicotine products (including sales to minors or unlicensed distribution), or unlicensed commercial alcohol sales.
  • 4.2.11 Discussion vs. Transactions: Lawful news reporting, educational analysis, historical discussions, and policy debates (e.g., debating gun regulations, drug decriminalization, or gambling legislation) are protected speech. Commercial listings, transactional brokerage, and transfer facilitation are prohibited.

5. Content Standards, Graphic Media & Intellectual Property

5.1 Lawful But Distasteful Speech

5.1.1 Free-Expression Baseline: SkiveCore adheres to strong free-expression principles. We do not remove content solely because it is controversial, unpopular, politically polarizing, or offensive to some users. As a 16+ platform, users are expected to navigate competing viewpoints using personal controls (such as Mute and Block).

5.2 Graphic Violence & Gore

  • 5.2.1 Labeling and Discovery Controls: Real-world footage of severe physical injury, combat, accidents, or death (such as in citizen journalism or documentary reporting) must be marked with sensitive-content warnings, placed behind 18+ settings, and is excluded from autoplay and public discovery/thumbnails.
  • 5.2.2 Terrorizing Gore Prohibited: Posting gore, mutilation, or graphic human remains with the primary intent to harass, threaten, shock, or terrorize specific individuals or communities is strictly prohibited and subject to immediate removal.

5.3 Synthetic, Altered & AI-Generated Media

  • 5.3.1 General Policy: Synthetic, AI-generated, or digitally altered media is permitted for creative, artistic, educational, and commentary purposes.
  • 5.3.2 Prohibited Applications: Synthetic media may not be used to facilitate fraud, financial scams, non-consensual sexual exploitation (deepfake intimate imagery), deceptive impersonation, fabricated digital evidence, or other prohibited conduct.
  • 5.3.3 High-Risk Transparency: Where synthetic media realistically depicts real-world public figures or critical events in a manner likely to cause severe public confusion or panic, clear contextual labeling is required.

5.4 Intellectual Property & Copyright

  • 5.4.1 Respect for IP: Users may not post material that infringes upon the copyrights, trademarks, or proprietary rights of others.
  • 5.4.2 Creator Ownership: Creators retain full ownership of the original text, video, and creative content they post on SkiveCore.
  • 5.4.3 DMCA Process: Copyright owners can submit formal takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Details and forms are available in our DMCA Policy.
  • 5.4.4 Fair Use & Dispute Rights: We evaluate claims of parody, commentary, news reporting, and fair use through our formal counter-notice process rather than through reflexive automated takedowns.
  • 5.4.5 Repeat Infringer Policy: Accounts with repeated, substantiated copyright infringement determinations will have their access terminated.

5.5 Impersonation vs. Parody & Satire

  • 5.5.1 Deceptive Impersonation Prohibited: You may not pose as another person, public figure, or organization in a manner intended to mislead, defraud, or confuse the public.
  • 5.5.2 Parody and Pseudonyms Protected: Obvious satire, parody accounts, fan channels, political caricature, and pseudonymous screen names (e.g., fictional or character handles) are fully permitted provided they do not deceptively mimic official personas for fraudulent or abusive ends.

6. Platform Integrity, Technical Abuse & Civic Processes

6.1 Coordinated Platform Manipulation

SkiveCore’s discovery systems and Aurora recommendation engine rely on authentic human reactions. We prohibit coordinated efforts to artificially amplify or suppress content, including:

  • 6.1.1 Purchased Engagement: Buying, selling, or utilizing third-party services to generate fake likes, ratings, followers, views, or comments.
  • 6.1.2 Botnets & Automated Account Creation: Deploying scripts or automated tools to generate mass accounts, artificially flood feeds, or automate synthetic interactions.
  • 6.1.3 Coordinated Mass Reporting & Brigading: Organizing campaigns to bombard content or users with false or weaponized reports to trigger moderation actions.
  • 6.1.4 Aurora Manipulation: Coordinated, synchronized activity designed to distort Aurora’s 0–1 sentiment signals or artificially game search and discovery rankings.
  • 6.1.5 Unauthorized Scraping: Scraping platform data using automated scripts that evade rate limits, bypass technical controls, or harvest personal user records.

6.2 Ban Evasion & Successor Entities

  • 6.2.1 Individual Evasion Prohibited: Users whose accounts have been suspended, restricted, or terminated are prohibited from creating or using alternate accounts, replacement profiles, or new credentials to circumvent sanctions.
  • 6.2.2 Organizational Evasion & Shell Groups: Organizations, movements, or collectives banned under our safety, exclusionary, or violence policies may not establish new replacement pages, alternate groups, shell foundations, or successor entities.
  • 6.2.3 Repeat-Offender Aggregation Across Groups: Changing organizational names, rotating leadership titles, altering corporate charter filings, rebranding, or forming successor collectives does not reset enforcement history where substantial continuity of personnel, funding, or organizational mission exists.

6.3 Cybersecurity & Malicious Technical Abuse

Using SkiveCore infrastructure to conduct cyberattacks, compromise systems, or distribute harmful technical payloads is strictly prohibited:

  • 6.3.1 Unauthorized Access & Credential Stuffing: Gaining or attempting unauthorized access to accounts, administrative systems, databases, or APIs; automated credential-stuffing attacks; and session-token theft.
  • 6.3.2 Malware, Ransomware & Spyware: Developing, hosting, distributing, or linking to viruses, ransomware, spyware, keyloggers, infostealers, or malicious browser extensions and applications.
  • 6.3.3 Destructive Cyberattacks & Attack Infrastructure: Knowingly operating command-and-control (C2) botnets, launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, or distributing zero-day exploitation frameworks for malicious deployment.
  • 6.3.4 Security Research & Defensive Education Protected: Good-faith vulnerability research, educational Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges, academic malware analysis in controlled environments, and responsible vulnerability disclosure are protected activities provided they do not compromise user data or disrupt platform operations.

6.4 Spam & Deceptive Interface Abuse

  • 6.4.1 High-Frequency Repetitive Spam: Flooding comment sections, feeds, or messaging channels with repetitive, automated, or unsolicited commercial communications.
  • 6.4.2 Deceptive Redirects & Cloaking: Posting links that disguise their real destination using deceptive URL shorteners, cloaking scripts, or lookalike typosquatted domains.
  • 6.4.3 Fake Interface Elements & Clickjacking: Embedding misleading visual elements—such as fake video player controls, bogus "close" buttons, counterfeit system notifications, or hidden iframe clickjacking overlays—designed to deceive users into unintentional actions.
  • 6.4.4 Engagement-Gating: Conditioned schemes demanding shares, likes, or repetitive follows before delivering promised content, or utilizing deceptive tricks to force platform interactions.

6.5 Election & Civic Process Interference

  • 6.5.1 Narrow Prohibition on Process Interference: Deliberately fabricating voting dates, times, locations, or registration requirements while deceptively impersonating an election authority; coordinating the physical destruction of ballots or voting machines; physically obstructing voter polling access; buying or selling votes; or instructing people how to fraudulently cast multiple ballots is prohibited.
  • 6.5.2 Political Speech & Opinions Protected: SkiveCore does not police general political claims, partisan controversy, or candidate debate. Robust political discussion, skepticism, opinions on elected officials, and civic commentary are protected speech and will never be subject to ideological censorship.

7. Private Chats (E2EE) & Moderation Non-Intervention

  • 7.1.1 Architectural Privacy: One‑to‑one direct messages are end‑to‑end encrypted so that SkiveCore servers do not hold the decryption keys needed to read your plaintext messages in transit.
  • 7.2.1 Non-Intervention in Private Disputes: Under no circumstances does our moderation team monitor, review, or police private chat messages. Even when users download a certified transcript, moderation cannot and will not inspect it to arbitrate private personal disputes or issue account sanctions.
  • 7.2.2 Built for Privacy: We maintain this strict boundary so that your personal conversations stay strictly between you and your conversational partner, without fear of platform surveillance or staff intrusion.
  • 7.3.1 User Safety Tools & Verified Exports: If someone violates your boundaries, use Mute or Block to immediately cut off contact. If serious issues or legal violations occur, the cryptographic chat export provides a cryptographically verifiable transcript designed to provide evidence of message integrity and authenticity for you to resolve the matter directly or present to legal authorities outside of SkiveCore.

Learn more: How Private Chats Are Protected (E2EE) and Reporting Harmful Content.

8. Adult Content, Age Rules & Commercial Boundaries

8.1 Age Eligibility

  • 8.1.1 16+ Platform Requirement: SkiveCore is strictly for users aged 16 and older.

8.2 Adult Content Requirements

  • 8.2.1 18+ Adult Content Placement: Explicit adult material, consensual adult discussions, and nudity are permitted exclusively behind 18+ settings and must comply with applicable law.
  • 8.2.2 Strict Prohibition on Minors: Any depiction, solicitation, or sexualization involving minors is strictly prohibited and immediately reported to NCMEC and legal authorities.

8.3 Commercial Sexual Services & Creator Boundaries

  • 8.3.1 Consensual Adult Creator Content Permitted: Consensual adult imagery, videos, erotic writing, and creator subscriptions/paywalls are fully permitted behind 18+ settings in accordance with applicable law.
  • 8.3.2 Solicitation of In-Person Commercial Sex Prohibited: Using SkiveCore to advertise, solicit, coordinate, or broker in-person commercial sexual services (such as in-person prostitution, paid escort appointments, or brothel services) is prohibited.
  • 8.3.3 Third-Party Exploitation & Pimping Prohibited: Pimping, operating third-party commercial sex procurement rings, or profiting from the sexual servitude or exploitation of another person is strictly prohibited and leads to immediate account termination.
  • 8.3.4 Minors & Non-Consensual Exploitation (Zero Tolerance): Any commercial sexual conduct involving minors or non-consensual exploitation triggers instant platform termination and immediate criminal referrals.

9. Enforcement Framework, Appeals & Factual Corrections

9.1 Graded Enforcement Tiers

To ensure fair and measured responses, SkiveCore employs a graduated spectrum of enforcement actions depending on the severity, intent, account history, scale, and potential real-world harm of the violation:

  • 9.1.1 Tier 1 — Warning & Educational Notice: Formal notice for minor or first-time infractions, providing guidance on platform rules.
  • 9.1.2 Tier 2 — Content Labeling: Applying sensitive-content or 18+ tags to unclassified material and excluding it from public discovery, recommendations, or autoplay.
  • 9.1.3 Tier 3 — Content Removal: Deletion of public posts, blogs, comments, or media that violate our standards.
  • 9.1.4 Tier 4 — Feature Restrictions: Temporary restrictions on specific capabilities (such as commenting, uploading, or sending friend requests) while preserving basic account access.
  • 9.1.5 Tier 5 — Temporary Account Suspension: Time-bound suspension of access ranging from 24 hours to 30 days for significant or repeated violations.
  • 9.1.6 Tier 6 — Group or Page Dismantling: Permanent deletion of community groups, creator pages, or channels that violate organizational standards, promote riots/property destruction, or operate as exclusionary collectives.
  • 9.1.7 Tier 7 — Permanent Termination: Complete account closure and technical anti-evasion measures, including device- and network-level signals where appropriate, for severe, dangerous, or recurring violations.
  • 9.1.8 Tier 8 — Emergency Legal Response: Immediate data preservation and proactive referral to law enforcement and child protection authorities (NCMEC) where required by law or in situations involving imminent threats to human life.

9.2 Transparency & No Shadow Bans

9.2.1 Clear Written Notice: We do not secretly suppress or shadow-ban lawful individual speech. When an enforcement action is taken against your account or content, you will receive clear notification explaining the basis of the action.

9.3 Appeals & Independent Factual Challenges

  • 9.3.1 Appeals Process: If you believe an enforcement action was taken in error, submit an appeal through our Contact Support appeal form.
  • 9.3.2 Independent Factual Challenges: Organizations and account holders subject to enforcement are invited to provide contrary historical evidence, verified documentation, and relevant context. Factual findings supporting an enforcement decision can be challenged independently of the final policy outcome.
  • 9.3.3 Commitment to Corrections: If SkiveCore determines that a material factual error was made in its findings, we will formally correct the factual record and issue an apology where warranted—even when another independent, valid policy ground leaves the underlying enforcement action or account status unchanged.

10. Definitions & Key Terms

For the purposes of this Acceptable Use & Community Safety Policy, the following definitions apply:

  • 10.1.1 Organization: Any formal or informal association, movement, collective, commercial entity, civic group, non-profit, political faction, or network operating under a collective identity.
  • 10.1.2 Group: A public or private community space, forum, circle, or channel created on SkiveCore to convene multiple users around a shared topic, interest, or entity.
  • 10.1.3 Affiliate: A subsidiary branch, chapter, auxiliary arm, operational unit, or closely aligned faction that coordinates activities or shares resources with a primary organization.
  • 10.1.4 Minor: Any individual under the age of 18 years, or under the age of legal majority in their governing jurisdiction.
  • 10.1.5 Explicit Sexual Content: Visual, audio, or written depictions of sexual intercourse, genital contact, masturbation, or clearly eroticized anatomical display intended for sexual gratification.
  • 10.1.6 Public Content: Any post, comment, video, blog, status update, thumbnail, channel bio, or group discussion accessible to users without end-to-end cryptographic locking.
  • 10.1.7 Private Chat: A one-to-one direct messaging session protected by client-side end-to-end encryption (E2EE) where plaintext messages are undecryptable by SkiveCore servers in transit.
  • 10.1.8 Credible Threat: A statement or communication indicating a genuine intent to cause serious physical harm, death, or severe property destruction, evaluated in light of specificity, target, capability, and imminence.
  • 10.1.9 NCII (Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery): Visual depictions of a person in a sexually explicit, nude, or partially nude state distributed, displayed, or threatened without their explicit consent.
  • 10.1.10 Coordinated Activity: Synchronized, multi-account, or bot-assisted actions organized to amplify content, game engagement algorithms, trigger false reports, or harass individuals.
  • 10.1.11 Material Support: Providing active logistical coordination, fundraising, recruitment, technical facilitation, or operational backing to banned organizations or violent movements.
  • 10.1.12 Platform Removal: The permanent deletion or dismantling of an account, page, group, or channel from SkiveCore.
  • 10.1.13 Organizational Presence: The maintenance of an official account, dedicated page, public or private group, brand identity, or organized recruitment hub on SkiveCore.
  • 10.1.14 Swatting: The act of coordinating or providing knowingly false emergency information to emergency dispatchers to provoke an armed police or tactical response against a targeted individual or premises.
  • 10.1.15 Human Trafficking: The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person through force, fraud, or coercion for labor, commercial sex, or servitude.
  • 10.1.16 Deceptive Interface Abuse: Designing user interface elements (e.g. fake buttons, invisible overlays, cloaked links) to deceive users into unintentional clicks, redirects, or data surrender.

11. Emergencies & Immediate Harm

11.1.1 Non-Emergency Service Disclaimer: SkiveCore is not an emergency service. If someone is in immediate physical danger, experiencing an emergency, or facing imminent violence, contact your local emergency services (e.g., 911 in North America) right away.

Questions & Support

11.2.1 Support Inquiries: For more details, consult our Content Guidelines, Reporting Harmful Content Guide, DMCA & Copyright Policy, or reach out to our team via the Contact Support Form.