The SearchVoat Forum - Terms of use

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Specific Content Rules

  1. No doxxing of site members
    • You must not post content or links publicly on this site that reveal personally identifying information about a user of this site
    • There are no exceptions for "self-doxxing" here: the source of the personally identifying information is irrelevant to this rule
  2. No spamming
  3. No posting of illegal content
  4. No posting child pornography or sexually suggestive content involving minors
  5. Some kinds of content may not be posted outside forums tagged appropriately:
    • Nudity: Adult nudity, pornography.
    • Gore: Gore, blood, violent death.
    • Free speech: Racism, sexism, anti-semitism etc.
  6. You must not use an alt account to avoid a ban