Community Guidelines

The short version

Showcase is for showing what you made. Post your own work, be straight about what it is, and leave other people room to do the same.

Post your own work

Publish things you made, or that you have permission to publish. If your entry builds on somebody else’s work - a cover, a remix, a dub, a fork - say so, and credit them.

Do not pass somebody else’s work off as your own, and do not re-upload an entry that is not yours.

What is not allowed

• Anything sexual involving a minor. This is reported to the authorities and the account is removed, with no warning and no appeal.
• Sexual content generally. Showcase is open to teenagers and is not the place for it.
• Harassment, threats, or pile-ons aimed at a person.
• Hate directed at people for who they are - race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation.
• Violent content meant to shock, and anything glorifying violence or its perpetrators.
• Encouraging self-harm, suicide or eating disorders.
• Somebody else’s private information - an address, a phone number, a document - posted without their agreement.
• Malware, phishing, or links that are not what they claim to be.
• Spam: the same entry over and over, tags that have nothing to do with the entry, or engagement bait.
• Impersonating a person or an organisation.
• Anything illegal where you are, or where Showcase is run.

Tag it for what it is

Pick the content type that matches the entry, and use tags that describe it honestly. A misleading title or thumbnail wastes everyone’s time and is treated as spam.

Reporting something

Any signed-in user can report an entry that is not their own, with a reason and an optional note. One report per entry per person - a second one adds nothing.

Reports are not readable by the person who filed them, deliberately: being able to watch a report land is being able to keep re-filing until it does.

Reporting something as a way of attacking its author is itself a breach of these guidelines.

What happens next

Reported entries go to a moderation queue, one row per entry rather than one per report, so something reported ten times is looked at once and properly.

Depending on what is found, an entry may be left alone, unpublished, or deleted, and an account may be warned, suspended for a period, or deleted.

If you think a decision went the wrong way, write to [CONTACT EMAIL]. Say what was removed and why you think it should not have been.