In short
Be honest, be lawful, and treat people with respect. Don't scam, impersonate, harass, post illegal or infringing content, make misleading claims, write fake reviews, or vote in your own poll with a second account. Paid content must be clearly disclosed as an advert or sponsorship. Boon's admins can hide content, decide reports and ban accounts, but a ban never stops money going back to anyone.
1. Who these rules apply to
Everyone who uses Boon: fans, creators and businesses. They cover everything you post or send on Boon: profiles, polls and options, proposals, updates, shows, deal messages, deliveries, reviews, reports, evidence and uploaded files.
2. What nobody may do
Scams and money
- Take money for something you don't intend to deliver, or promise what you can't deliver.
- Ask anyone for their wallet's recovery phrase or key, or send links meant to steal them.
- Ask to be paid outside Boon for something agreed or started on Boon, to avoid the review window or Boon's fee. [off-platform payment rule, still to come]: Not yet decided.
- Offer investments, tokens, securities or financial returns, or present a poll or proposal as one.
- Use Boon to move money for someone else, or to hide where money comes from.
Honest voting and reviews
- Use second accounts to vote in your own poll, to back your own proposal, to vote twice, or to make anything look more popular than it is.
- Pay others, or reward them, to vote, back or review.
- Write fake reviews, or review something you weren't part of, or rate in return for something.
- Report a problem you know isn't true, to hold someone's money.
Boon can't always detect second accounts. A wallet says nothing about who owns it.
People
- Impersonate anyone, or suggest you are connected with a person, brand or organisation when you aren't. Use your own name, or a name you have the right to use.
- Hate: attack people for who they are, including race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or illness.
- Harassment: threaten, bully, stalk or target anyone, or encourage others to.
- Share someone's private information without their permission.
- Post sexual content involving anyone under 18, or sexual content of anyone without their consent.
Content
- Post illegal content, or anything that promotes or helps illegal acts.
- Post infringing content: music, video, pictures, words or trademarks you don't own and don't have permission to use.
- Make misleading claims: about yourself, your audience or its size, what you will deliver, a product, or what Boon does.
- Post malware, or links that try to harm someone's device or wallet.
- Post spam.
- [adult content rule, still to come]: Not yet decided whether adult content is allowed at all, and how it would be marked.
Advertising
- Hide that content is paid for. Sponsorships, adverts and placements, including those agreed through the showroom, must be clearly disclosed to the audience, in the way the rules where the audience lives require, for example "#ad". A business must not ask a creator to hide it.
Boon itself
- Break, overload or get around Boon's security, limits or checks.
- Use automated tools to vote, back, review, report or collect data from Boon.
- Use another person's account or wallet without their permission.
- Use Boon from a country, or for a person, that Boon can't serve: [excluded countries, still to come].
3. Reporting
- Content. Anyone signed in can report a poll, proposal, update, show, review, account or deal message they think breaks these rules, with a reason: spam, abuse, misleading, copyright or other. You can have one open report about each thing.
- Problems with delivered work. The people whose money is waiting to go to the creator can report a problem during the review window. That report holds the money. See the fan terms, creator terms and showroom deal conditions.
- Copyright. If you own rights in something posted on Boon, report it with "copyright", and say what you own and where it is. [copyright notice process, still to come].
Boon's admins look at every report. Nothing is hidden, banned or decided automatically, whatever the number of reports or the ratings.
4. What Boon's admins may do
Boon's admins are the people Boon names to run its admin pages. They may:
- hide content from public pages, or remove an uploaded file. Hiding or removing content never changes where money goes;
- dismiss or act on a content report;
- decide a report about delivered work: release the held money to the creator, or refund the payers.
- ban an account, for a set time or until an admin lifts it, and lift a ban;
- read a deal's messages, only while the deal has an open report about delivered work. Each read is logged.
What a ban does:
- It stops new actions: creating, paying, messaging and the like.
- It never stops money going back to anyone, including the banned person, and never stops refunds to others.
- It doesn't hold the banned person's payouts by itself. An admin can hold an item's money by deciding a report. If a banned creator has money held for work not yet delivered, an admin decides each case.
- There is one kind of ban, for the whole of Boon, and one admin can make it.
Boon keeps a record of every admin action. Boon may also keep a record of who uploaded which file, even after a file is removed, so it can act on reports.
The person affected may be told why, in a message the admin writes. Not yet decided: when a reason must be given, and how to appeal a ban, a removal or a decision.
5. Breaking these rules
If you break these rules, Boon's admins may do any of the things in section 4. Boon may also report illegal activity to the police or other authorities, where the law requires or allows it.