Lurk is both a website host and a community. Those jobs need different rules. These Guidelines separate the minimum for hosting, the higher standard for discovery, and the social rules for shared spaces.

1. The three layers

1. Hosting rules apply to every page, file, link, message, and interaction on Lurk. Breaking this floor can end hosting and the account.
2. Discovery standards decide whether a site is eligible for Town and other Lurk recommendations. A site can be lawful and hosted without being eligible for discovery.
3. Shared-space rules apply where members share a common Lurk surface, such as Town pins. They protect the quality of the conversation.

2. The hosting floor

Do not use Lurk to host, link to, organize, request, or promote:

• content or conduct that violates applicable law;
• child sexual abuse material, grooming, or any sexual exploitation of a minor;
• non-consensual intimate media, sexual extortion, or sexual exploitation;
• real or photorealistic explicit sexual content, including realistic content that is generated, edited, or simulated;
• credible threats, calls for violence, or instructions meant to enable violent wrongdoing;
• fraud, phishing, scams, malicious downloads, malware, or other dangerous links;
• doxxing, stalking, unlawful surveillance, or non-consensual disclosure of private information;
• content that infringes copyright, trademark, or another person's rights; or
• attempts to evade enforcement or use Lurk's systems to attack another service or person.

This list gives important examples, but it does not narrow the legal minimum. If content breaks the law, the fact that it is private, unlisted, fictional, linked rather than uploaded, or outside discovery does not make it acceptable.

We disable confirmed illegal content at once. We may preserve related records, logs, hashes, and content where lawful and appropriate, and we report it when law requires. We may permanently end the account. We also remove real or photorealistic explicit sexual content even when it may be lawful.

3. Discovery standards

A site is eligible for discovery only when:

• its home page is suitable for a broad PG-13 audience;
• its home page gives a clear warning before linking to a more mature subpage; and
• its discoverable content does not attack people based on a protected trait.

A PG-13 home page can discuss serious or mature subjects. It must not show explicit sexual material, graphic gore, or similarly adult imagery without the visitor first choosing to follow a clear warning to a subpage.

Protected traits include actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, nationality, caste, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and serious disease. An attack includes dehumanization, claims that people are inferior, calls to exclude or harm them, slurs used as abuse, and coded hostility with the same meaning.

You may criticize a culture, religion, ideology, policy, movement, or institution. You may discuss, document, or quote hateful ideas when the context is not itself an attack on people. Disagreement is not hate. The line is an attack on a person or group because of a protected trait.

Sites that do not meet these standards are not eligible for discovery. Discovery is discretionary: eligibility never guarantees placement, reach, rank, or continued inclusion.

4. Shared Lurk spaces

When you post to Town pins or another shared Lurk surface:

• do not attack people based on a protected trait;
• do not harass, threaten, shame, dogpile, or expose another person;
• do not spam or repeatedly promote yourself, your site, or a product;
• respond to social feedback with basic courtesy and judgment; and
• keep the shared surface suitable for a broad PG-13 audience.

Ordinary shared-space violations normally lead to removal and timeouts of one hour, one day, one week, and four weeks, followed by permanent loss of shared-space access. Serious conduct, coordinated abuse, or evasion can skip steps. A shared-space restriction does not by itself remove a member's hosted site.

5. Your space, your rules

Inside their own webspace, an owner may remove content, limit interactions, or block any visitor for any reason. Lurk does not require an owner to host a conversation or give a visitor an appeal. Respect those boundaries and do not evade a block.

An owner's rules cannot authorize content below Lurk's hosting floor. Lurk may still investigate and act across the service.

6. Reporting

"Block and Report" immediately blocks the account. Choose the reason that best fits:

• Personal / don't report
• Hate or harassment
• Child safety or exploitation
• Explicit sexual content
• Violence or dangerous activity
• Spam, scam, or dangerous link
• Privacy, doxxing, or impersonation
• Rule evasion or platform abuse

"Personal / don't report" blocks the person without sending a report. Every report reason sends the selected reason, optional details, and the relevant Lurk page or pin to our moderation queue. A member can have one open report about another account at a time. After Lurk handles it, the member can send a new report. Repeated block actions do not create repeated reports.

People review reports and appeals. Technical systems may also limit obvious spam, malware, dangerous links, or abusive traffic.

Copyright complaints require the formal information in our Copyright Policy. Do not use the quick report as a substitute for a copyright notice.

To report specific content that you believe is illegal, email legal@inicial.co with the exact URL, a clear explanation, your name and email address, and a good-faith statement that your report is accurate. For reports about sexual abuse or exploitation of a child, you may omit your name and use an email address that does not identify you. You do not need a Lurk account. If you give us contact details, we confirm receipt and tell you our decision and available appeal options. Knowingly false, abusive, or automated reports may lead to restrictions.

7. Intimate image removal

You or a person authorized to act for you can ask Lurk to remove a real or digitally created intimate image of you that was published without your consent. You do not need a Lurk account.

Email legal@inicial.co with:

1. Your physical or electronic signature, such as your typed full legal name.
2. The exact Lurk URL or other information that lets us find the image.
3. A brief good-faith statement that the image was published without your consent, with any facts that can help us confirm this.
4. Your email address or other contact information.

An authorized person must identify the person shown and explain their authority to act. If the image may show a minor, do not attach it. Send its location instead. After a valid request, we remove the image as soon as possible and no later than 48 hours after receipt. We also make reasonable efforts to find and remove known identical copies on Lurk.

8. Appeals

You may send one concise appeal of an account, content-hosting, or shared-space action to support@inicial.co. Include the affected account or URL and explain what we got wrong. We do not promise a particular result or response time.

9. Changes

We may update these Guidelines as Lurk changes or we learn where a rule needs a clearer line. Material changes receive reasonable advance notice by email or in Lurk unless urgent legal, safety, or security needs require faster action.

10. Contact

General and moderation questions: support@inicial.co
Legal-content reports: legal@inicial.co