Community Guidelines

1. Respect Other Users

You may disagree strongly with another user's opinion, vote, or comment, but you must not use TugVote to harass or abuse others.

Do not:

• threaten other users;
• repeatedly target someone with abusive or intimidating messages;
• encourage others to harass a person;
• engage in targeted humiliation or severe personal abuse; or
• use TugVote primarily to intimidate or harm another person.

Criticism, disagreement, argument, and strong opinions are not automatically harassment. Context matters.

2. Threats and Violence

Do not post content that credibly threatens, encourages, glorifies, or meaningfully facilitates violence against another person or group.

Do not use TugVote to coordinate violent activity or provide instructions intended to facilitate serious physical harm.

Discussion of violence in news, history, entertainment, sports, politics, or other legitimate contexts is not automatically prohibited.

3. Hate and Discrimination

Do not attack, threaten, dehumanize, or advocate violence or unlawful discrimination against people based on protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or similar characteristics protected by applicable law.

Discussion or criticism of ideas, institutions, religions, political positions, or public issues is not automatically prohibited merely because it is controversial or offensive.

4. Sexual Exploitation and Safety of Minors

TugVote is for users aged 16 and older.

Content that sexually exploits, sexualizes, solicits, grooms, or otherwise endangers minors is prohibited.

Do not use TugVote to distribute, request, promote, or facilitate child sexual abuse material or sexual exploitation of minors.

Where appropriate or legally required, serious matters involving child safety may be reported to relevant authorities or organizations.

5. Privacy and Personal Information

Do not post another person's private or sensitive information without authorization where doing so could expose them to harm, harassment, fraud, or unwanted intrusion.

This may include information such as:

• private home addresses;
• private telephone numbers;
• passwords or authentication credentials;
• financial-account information;
• government identification numbers; or
• other sensitive information that is not legitimately public.

Do not use TugVote to dox, stalk, blackmail, or facilitate unauthorized access to another person's accounts or information.

6. Illegal and Harmful Activity

Do not use TugVote to facilitate unlawful activity or serious harm.

This includes using TugVote to meaningfully facilitate fraud, exploitation, unauthorized computer access, trafficking, or other unlawful conduct.

Discussion, reporting, education, prevention, or other legitimate discussion of illegal activity is not automatically prohibited.

7. Spam, Manipulation, and Deceptive Behavior

Do not misuse TugVote through spam, automation, deception, or manipulation.

You must not:

• use bots or unauthorized automated methods to manipulate participation;
• fraudulently manipulate votes or voting results;
• exploit bugs or vulnerabilities to obtain Tug Coins, rewards, achievements, or other benefits;
• artificially manipulate Tug Coin balances or support;
• repeatedly post disruptive or irrelevant spam;
• attempt to evade technical restrictions or enforcement measures; or
• use multiple or compromised accounts to abuse TugVote features.

If you discover a vulnerability or exploit, do not use it to harm the service or other users.

8. Intellectual Property

Do not use TugVote to post content that you do not have the right to share where doing so infringes another person's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property rights.

If you believe content on TugVote infringes your rights, you may contact tugvote@noverdane.com .

9. Impersonation and Deception

Do not impersonate another person or organization in a way intended to deceive other users.

Do not falsely present yourself as TugVote, Noverdane, an administrator, or another user.

Parody, commentary, or fictional presentation should not be used in a manner intended to deceptively misrepresent identity.

10. Reporting Content

If you believe a comment violates these Guidelines, you can use TugVote's comment-reporting feature.

When submitting a report, provide an appropriate reason for the report.

Reports are intended for genuine moderation concerns. Do not deliberately misuse reporting tools to harass users or attempt to remove content merely because you disagree with it.

A report does not automatically mean that the reported content violates these Guidelines.

11. How Moderation Works

Reported comments may be reviewed by TugVote administrators.

After review, a report may be dismissed where no action is considered necessary, or the reported comment may be removed.

TugVote may also take reasonable action where content or conduct violates these Guidelines, the Terms of Service, applicable law, or creates a security or abuse risk.

Moderation decisions may depend on context, severity, available information, and patterns of behavior.

12. Account Suspension

Accounts may be suspended where reasonably necessary to respond to violations, repeated abuse, security concerns, attempts to evade enforcement, or other conduct inconsistent with the TugVote Terms of Service or these Guidelines.

While an account is suspended, it cannot access authenticated TugVote functionality.

Suspension does not itself delete the account or its associated data.

A suspension may later be removed where appropriate.

13. Disagreement and Controversial Topics

TugVote is designed around opposing choices and differing opinions. The fact that an opinion is unpopular, controversial, critical, or offensive to another user does not by itself mean that it violates these Guidelines.

Moderation should focus on prohibited conduct and content rather than simply which side of a debate a user supports.

Users remain responsible for expressing their views without violating the rules above.

14. Changes to These Guidelines

We may update these Community Guidelines as TugVote develops, new community features are introduced, or legal, safety, security, or operational requirements change.

When these Guidelines are updated, the Last updated date will be changed.

Where appropriate or required by applicable law, additional notice may be provided for material changes.

15. Contact

Questions about these Guidelines or TugVote moderation can be sent to:

tugvote@noverdane.com

TugVote is operated by:

Vasil Mutafchiev
Operating under the Noverdane brand
Bulgaria