# **Welcome!** ## **Glad to have you here at Blackbird’s Rest, but if you’re going to continue to be a member of the site then we’re going to need to establish some ground rules.** **Even though we're not actually a nsfw or explicit content dedicated site, you must be a legal adult in order to join this site.** We have no interest in data harvesting, selling your information, or ad tracking, and do not do so. **You retain ownership of your info**, you just allow us to engage in the site stuff like transferring, copying, hosting etc. so that we can do site function things, like share your pictures with your friends and store them on our servers for you to be able to pull up later to show grandma. ## **By using this site you agree that you:** - Will attempt to keep conversations civil in the public discourse. - Understand that as a user we have a duty not to flood the public timelines so that other content may have time to pass through and we do not contribute to spam. - Understand that on this site we do not brush people off when they are asking genuine questions with a just google it. Not having time or the inclination to answer is fine, and you may state so, but it is preferred you drop a link or keywords to ensure people can get started on learning and don't end up down misinformation rabbitholes. - Will make sure to do your best to post Alt text on images, (**this is required**) and if you post content or media that is satire or utilizes AI clearly state it with the tags #Satire, #MadeWithAI, and/or #UsesAI . This is to help cut down on Misinformation/Disinformation. - Will tag sensitive content such as violence/blood, graphic nudity, lewd content, NSFW, and other potentially upsetting or triggering topics with a content warning, such as "CW NSFW" ## **By using this site you agree that you will NOT:** - Engage in Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking, Sexual Harassment, Doxxingor other Abusive content/behaviours. - Attempt to break, hack, upload viruses, trojans, or other malicious files/scripts, or bork the website. - Utilize the site to engage in criminal activity, gambling, or trade in warez or malicious scripts. - Engage in, promote, or post Content/posts/media that discriminate against people on the basis of Race, Ethnicity, Sex (including people whose gender identities, relationships, partners, and personal presentation differ from what is considered typical of their birth sex, i.e Transphobia and Homophobia), Caste, Class, Job (This includes sex workers), Religion, Disability, or any other form of protected class, or vulnerable and discriminated against population. - Engage in, promote, or post content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism, or that conducts promoting the ideology of National Socialism. - Engage in, promote, or post content/posts/media that are trolling, sealioning, doxxing, sock puppeting, or that utilize AI or bot accounts to influence public perception, attempt to impersonate real people, or take part in Misinformation/Disinformation Campaigns. - Engage in, promote, or post content/posts/media spreading rumours, falsehoods, misinformation, disinformation, antivaxx rhetoric, the promotion of false cures, pyramid schemes, NFTS, or Multilevel marketing schemes. - Engage in, promote, or post AI content/text to pass it off as your own. - Engage in, promote, or post content that supports/depicts/justifies Beastiality/Zoophilia/Pedophilia/Hebephilia, exploits children, or contains sexual depictions of minors. This includes nsfw art of underaged characters or characters of ambiguous age, loli, and furry art that depicts "cubs" among other things. - Engage in, promote, or post content/posts/media/discussions/messages with the intent of Grooming Minors, Advocating for, or supporting Child Marriage. **No Racists, Terfs, Swerfs, Nazis, White Supremacists, White Nationalists, Fascists, Antisemites, Gender Critical, or other Bigots are allowed to utilize or promote their hateful ideologies on this site and will be banned/blocked/removed as needed. We also do not allow Anti-Palestinian or Zionist rhetoric. Genocide is Genocide, and it is an evil beyond measure, this should not be a difficult concept.**