YTMND:Proposed Rules

based on the moderation guidelines

Spamming

• Creating large numbers of duplicate sites or sites with no real effort.

1st offense Site creation suspended (1 week)
2nd offense Site creation suspended (1 month)
3rd offense Site creation suspended (permanently)

• Creating large numbers of duplicate or unnecessary comments.

1st offense Commenting suspended (1 month)
2nd offense Commenting suspended (permanently)

• Sending large numbers of unwanted private messages.

1st offense Private messaging suspended (1 month)
2nd offense Private messaging suspended (permanently)
2nd offense Account suspended (permanently) and offending material deleted

Obscenity, Racism, Harassment, and shock value

• Using an unnecessary amount of obscenities in comments, site titles, etc.
• Being racist for shock value or with a complete lack of humor or tact.
• Continuously posting controversial material for no other reason than to be annoying or push propaganda.
• Religious YTMNDS, "Ebaumsworld sucks", "Black people are animals" etc.
• Posting of personal content you are not authorized to post (such as personal information, private photos, etc).
• Making comments or sites that contain nothing but obscenity or racism.

1st offense Commenting and/or site creation suspended (1 week) and offending material deleted
2nd offense Commenting and/or site creation suspended (1 month) and offending material deleted
3rd offense Account suspended (permanently) and offending material deleted

• Shock images, scat porn, vomit, etc.

1st offense Site creation suspended (1 month) and offending material deleted
2nd offense Site creation suspended (permanently) and offending material deleted

General use of pornography

• Creating sites that lack any underlying theme beyond "here are some naked girls, 5 this!"
• Extensive use of pornography or pornographic themes.

1st offense Sites deleted and site creation suspended (1 week)
2nd offense Sites deleted and site creation suspended (1 month)
3rd offense Sites deleted and site creation suspended (permanently)

Creating to or linking sites or comments glorifying generally illegal actions

• Such as burning, mutilating, torturing animals.
• Having sex with young children, or making references to doing so.
• Rallying invasions/attacks on other sites, users, people, companies, religions etc.

1st offense Account deleted

Voting Trends

• Voting everything as 1 star. (downvoting)
• Voting everything as 5 stars. (upvoting)
• Revenge or compensatory voting (downvoting a user's site(s) when they've give your site a low score or a comment

you find spiteful, or upvoting a user's site(s) in exchange for them voting your site highly).

• Voting based on the user who created a site/comment versus the content of the site/comment.

1st offense Voting suspended (1 month) and votes deleted
2nd offense Voting suspended (permanently) and votes deleted 

• Down or up voting of every comment on a news post or site profile.

1st offense Comment voting suspended (1 month) and comment votes deleted
2nd offense Comment voting suspended (permanently) and comment votes deleted

Grouping up to push an agenda

• Grouping together with other users to upvote/downvote sites/comments/etc.

1st offense Votes deleted and accounts involved suspended (1 month)
2nd offense (for an individual) Account deleted

• Spamming as a group

Individual punishments increased

User Moderation Abuse

• Incorrectly claiming a site you've created is "Safe for work"

1st offense Site creation suspended (1 month)
2nd offense Site creation suspended (1 month) and site deleted
3rd offense Site creation suspended (permanently) and site deleted

• Incorrectly voting that a site another user has created is NSFW or vice versa.

1st offense User moderation suspended (1 week)
2nd offense User moderation suspended (1 month)
3rd offense User moderation suspended (permanently)

• Voting comments of users you don't like down, or vice versa.

1st offense Comment voting suspended (1 week) 
2nd offense Comment voting suspended (1 month)
3rd offense Comment voting suspended (permanently)

Use of alternate accounts

• Using alternate accounts to unfairly further your status of your sites/comments/etc.

1st offense Alternate accounts and sites/comments deleted. Main account suspended (1 month)
2nd offense Main account and alternate accounts deleted. IP ban

• Using alternate accounts to unfairly ruin the status of other users either out of spite or to get ahead.
• Using alternate accounts to spam or troll.

1st offense Main account and alternate accounts deleted. IP ban

Meta Data

• Knowingly putting incorrect image/sound origins into your site.

1st offense Warning
2nd offense Site deleted
Further offenses Site deleted and site creation suspended (1 month)

• Using fake or throw-away email addresses at signup.

1st offense Account deleted
2nd offense Account deleted and IP ban

• Using irrelevant or misleading keywords on a site.

1st offense Keywords removed and ability to use keywords suspended (1 week)
2nd offense Keywords removed and site creation suspended (1 week)
3rd offense Keywords removed, ability to use keywords suspended (permanently) and site creation suspended (1 week)

• Stealing content from another user/YTMND/website without properly crediting them and sufficient alteration.

1st offense Site deleted and site creation suspended (1 month)
2nd offense Site deleted and site creation suspended (6 months)
3rd offense Site deleted and site creation suspended (permanently)

Trying not to get caught.

• Editing sites once suspicion is aroused in order to avoid punishment.
• Creating alternate accounts to temporarily upvote/downvote and then deleting them

Punishment is increased