Welcome to Yimpy, and thank you for your interest in our community guidelines. We created Yimpy to be a place where it’s easy to communicate genuinely, build relationships, engage, thrive, have fun, and network. Our Community Guidelines ensure everyone finds belonging, but not at the expense of anyone else.
OUR CORE PRINCIPLES
Be respectful when speaking to others; this helps to create great relationships and a great community. Strong communities are built on strong relationships.
- Do not discriminate or defame
We do not tolerate racism, hateful language, defamation, or discrimination of any kind.
Don’t impersonate anyone else, including, but not limited to, any Yimpy staff, service users, or suggest that you have an affiliation with a person or association if you do not.
Swearing on the web is a bit like shouting in an argument, if you do it, you’ve already lost, and people just won’t read it.
- Do not engage in harmful activity
We prohibit any activity that could hurt someone, from physical harm to scams.
If you don’t like something, or don’t agree with something, say why. Expand on your views and thoughts.
WHEN USING YIMPY
- Do not harass others or organize, promote, or participate in harassment. Disagreements happen and are normal, but making continuous, repetitive, or severe negative comments or circumventing a block or ban can cross the line into harassment and is not okay.
- Do not organize, promote, or participate in hate speech or hateful conduct. It’s unacceptable to attack a person or a community based on attributes such as their race, ethnicity, caste, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender presentation, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, age, serious illness, disabilities, or other protected classifications.
- Do not make threats of violence or threaten to harm others. This includes indirect or suggestive threats, as well as sharing or threatening to share someone’s personal information.
- Do not use Yimpy for the organization, promotion, or support of violent extremism. This also includes glorifying violent events, the perpetrators of violent acts, or similar behaviors.
- We strongly discourage and may take action against vigilante behavior, as it can interfere with our investigation and ability to report to law enforcement.
- Do not share false or misleading information. Content that is false, misleading, and can lead to significant risk of physical or societal harm may not be shared on Yimpy. We may remove content if we reasonably believe its spread could result in damage to physical infrastructure, injury of others, obstruction of participation in civic processes, or the endangerment of public health.
- Do not engage in activities intended to cause damage or gain unauthorized access to another user’s account, network, or system. This includes impersonating Yimpy staff, distributing malware, authentication token theft, phishing, DDOS, and other hacking or social engineering techniques.
- Do not distribute or provide access to content involving the hacking, cracking, or distribution of stolen goods, pirated content, or accounts. This includes sharing or selling game cheats or hacks.
- Do not use Yimpy to spam, manipulate engagement, or disrupt other people’s experience, including trying to influence or disrupt conversations using bots, fake accounts, multiple accounts, or other automation. This includes purchasing or selling methods of artificially increasing membership, such as via advertisements or botting.
These guidelines will continue to evolve over time. This means we may take action against a user, server, or content that violates the spirit of these guidelines when we encounter a new threat or harm that is not explicitly covered in the current version. Thanks for doing your part. If you come across content or accounts that you believe may violate our Community Guidelines, please let us know so we can review and take appropriate action.
SUSPENSION
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of our Community Standards through your use of our Services.
When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with our Community Standards constitutes a material breach of our Terms of Service upon which you are permitted to use our Services, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
- immediate temporary or permanent cancellation of your right to use our Services;
- immediate temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution;
- issuance of a warning to you;
- legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including but not limited to reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
- further legal action against you; and/or
- disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these Community Standards. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
HELP AND COMPLAINTS
If you have any questions about these Community Guidelines, you can contact us using our ContactForm.
CHANGES
The first version of this policy was issued on Friday, November 29th, 2024, and is the current version. Any prior versions are invalid, and if we make changes to this policy, we will revise the effective date.