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Moderation & safety

Version 1.4 — effective 2026-11-09.

Waidrn is a public town square. Moderation protects people from harm and keeps rules honest. Below: removals, reporting, outcomes, appeals. The Rules and Content Policy set the standard; the Terms are the legal side.

What we remove and why

We remove illegal content — sexual content involving minors, credible threats, doxxing, malware — plus harassment or hate, spam, stolen or copyright-infringing work (Copyright & takedown), and unlabelled adult content or content shown without the age gate. We do not remove work for being unpopular or critical of us.

How reporting works

Every post, thread, work, chapter, comment, project and profile has a Report link. Pick one of eight reasons — Harassment or abuse, Hate speech, Spam, Copyright, Illegal content, Doxxing or privacy, Adult content violation, Other — and add details if they help. Reports are private: the reported person is not told who reported them. Accounts can send five reports an hour; the limit protects the queue from abuse, not criticism.

What happens next

Reports go into a moderator queue. A moderator can hide content (it stops being public, keeps a tombstone and can be restored), dismiss the report with no action, or suspend an account for serious or repeated violations — signing it out, revoking its sessions and blocking sign-in, posting, trading and minting (the person can still read as a visitor).

If a post, thread or comment collects three or more open reports, it is hidden automatically pending human review. Works, projects and accounts are never auto-hidden — they are queued for a moderator.

Soft-delete and tombstones

Removed content leaves a tombstone: title, author and date stay visible, so links and receipts do not develop silent holes. Authors can see that their content was removed.

Transparency

Every moderation action — hide, dismissal, resolution, suspension, lock or tag correction — is written to the audit log, visible to moderators and admins. There are no invisible penalties.

Who does what

Moderators handle content: they hide content, resolve reports, lock or pin threads, and correct tags. They cannot touch money, roles or platform settings; those are admin-only, along with the simulation clock and the email queue.

Tag corrections

Fandom and freeform tags can be renamed, aliased or merged so fandom pages stay clean. When a tag's URL changes, the old link redirects permanently, so bookmarks do not break.

Appeals and contact

The reporter's notification records the outcome and the moderator's note. If you believe a decision was wrong, mail moderation@waidrn.com with the link and what was missed; an admin who did not make the original decision reviews it. Security issues go to security@waidrn.com — see /.well-known/security.txt.

Safety tools and expectations

Block people you do not want to hear from, mute tags or fandoms you do not want to see, and set the adult gate and rating/warning labels as you prefer. We aim to review reports within 48 hours; illegal content is escalated immediately. Waidrn is a small team.

Communities, organizations and verification (v1.4)