Community rules

The short version

If you read nothing else, read this. The detail below explains why each one exists.

Scams and safety

01 · Never trust a message you did not start

Scammers watch the member list and message new joiners within minutes, posing as a rep with a price list and a limited-time offer. This is the single most common way people in this space lose money, and newcomers are targeted specifically because they do not yet know it happens.

Real sellers do not slide into your DMs first. If somebody contacts you unprompted with an offer, they are stealing from you. Block them, report to a mod so they can be removed before they reach anyone else, and never reply to establish whether they are genuine. Replying only confirms you are a live target.

02 · Verify who you are talking to, in channel, every time

Impersonation is easy. Display names and avatars can be copied in seconds, and a one-character difference in a username is invisible at a glance. Always start contact yourself, using the details posted in the relevant channel, and check them again on every new order rather than scrolling back to a DM thread from three months ago.

03 · Keep your real identity out of it

Do not post your legal name, address, workplace, or links to social accounts, and do not ask anyone else for theirs. Use an address and a contact route you are comfortable having in a stranger's hands. Doxxing is a live risk in every community of this kind, and the person it damages is usually the one who volunteered the information themselves.

Buying and money

04 · Group buys are member-run and carry member risk

Group buys are organised by members, not by the school. Nobody running this project organises them, guarantees them, holds funds, or underwrites them, and mods can help mediate but cannot compel an outcome or refund anyone.

You are handing money to a person before anything ships, with no escrow and no consumer protection behind it. Read how previous rounds went, understand the terms before you commit, and use an amount you can afford to lose the first time. Most rounds go fine. Enter them knowing what happens if yours does not.

05 · Talk to the organiser and a mod before you talk to your bank

If an order goes wrong, raise it with the organiser first and then a mod. Do not open a chargeback as an opening move. It rarely gets your money back, and it reliably burns the payment method for everybody else in the server, including people who are mid-order and have done nothing wrong. If you have a genuine unresolved loss, bring what you have and we will help you work it.

06 · No pressure, no urgency, no recruiting

Do not pressure anyone into an order, a compound, or a dose. No manufactured scarcity, no closing-in-an-hour countdowns, no dangling a discount to hurry somebody past a question they have not finished asking. Also no recruiting for other servers, no unrelated self-promotion, and no advertising your own business here.

Advice and information

07 · Nobody here is a doctor

Experience is not a medical qualification, and the most experienced members are usually the fastest to say so. Nothing posted in the server is medical advice. No diagnosing, no telling somebody to stop a prescribed medicine, and no personalised protocols. Where a question needs a clinician, the answer will be to find one. That is not the room being unhelpful, it is the room being honest about what it can see.

08 · Say whether you are giving data or a feeling

Test results, batch numbers, and certificates are worth more than confidence. Post them where you have them. If you are going on how something felt, say so plainly. Both are welcome, and both are useful for different things. Presenting the second as the first is what is not welcome, because somebody will make a decision on it.

09 · No egging people on

Do not encourage anyone toward a higher dose, a faster escalation, or eating less than they should be. If somebody describes what sounds like disordered eating or a medical emergency, do not coach them. Point them at help and tell a mod. This one is not negotiable and it is the rule we care most about.

Privacy and conduct

10 · Keep the server off the public internet

No screenshots to social media, no posting the invite anywhere it can go viral, no talking to press. Share the invite with people directly instead. We want the people who are looking for us to find us; we do not want an audience. This protects every member, including the ones with considerably more to lose than you.

11 · Eighteen and over

Adults only, without exception.

12 · Be decent to the person

Go as hard as you like at an argument. Disagreement is most of the value here and a room where nobody is ever contradicted is a room that will eventually get somebody hurt. Go at the claim, not the human making it. No harassment, no bigotry, no pile-ons.

How this is enforced

Ordinary breaches are handled in proportion, and the usual path is a word from a mod, then a formal warning, then a temporary removal, then a permanent one. Most situations stop at the first step, because most people simply did not know.

Beyond those four, mods have discretion. They will use it, they will occasionally get it wrong, and rule 12 applies to them as much as to anyone else.

Appeals

If you think a decision was wrong, say so to a mod directly rather than in a channel. Explain what happened from your side. Decisions get reversed sometimes, which is the point of having an appeal at all. Arguing it in public is the one approach that reliably does not work.