Community Guidelines

1. Our Community Purpose

Cosmic Civilizations is a moderated digital community for exploring space, science, civilization theories, future human settlement, alien-life discussions, and cosmic ideas.

Our goal is to encourage thoughtful, respectful, and creative discussions while keeping the platform safe, useful, and welcoming for users.

2. Be Respectful

Treat other users with respect. Healthy disagreement is allowed, but personal attacks, harassment, bullying, threats, hate speech, and abusive behavior are not allowed.

Critique ideas, not people. Keep discussions focused on the subject rather than insulting or targeting other users.

3. Share Thoughtful Theories and Ideas

Users may submit theories, ideas, comments, and discussions related to space, science, civilizations, astronomy, technology, and the future of humanity.

Submissions should include reasoning, context, or explanation. Low-effort spam, meaningless text, repeated posts, and unrelated content may be rejected or removed.

4. Moderation and Approval

Cosmic Civilizations may review user submissions, profile avatars, comments, and other public content before or after they appear on the website.

We may approve, reject, edit, hide, or remove content that violates these Community Guidelines, our Terms of Service, or creates safety, legal, payment, or moderation concerns.

5. Prohibited Content

Do not post illegal, harmful, hateful, abusive, sexually explicit, violent, exploitative, defamatory, misleading, scam-related, or infringing content.

Do not post content that promotes self-harm, terrorism, extremist activity, malware, phishing, doxxing, stolen data, or attempts to harm other users or the website.

6. No Financial, Crypto, NFT, or Investment Promotion

Cosmic Civilizations is not a cryptocurrency, NFT, trading, investment, fundraising, donation, or financial advice platform.

Users may not use the website to promote cryptocurrency tokens, NFTs, investment schemes, trading signals, financial advice, get-rich-quick claims, fundraising campaigns, or similar financial promotions.

7. No Marketplace or Third-Party Sales

Cosmic Civilizations is not a marketplace. Users may not sell third-party products, services, regulated goods, physical goods, or external commercial offers through community posts, comments, profiles, or submissions.

The paid Cosmic Citizen membership is a digital subscription for website features and member access only.

8. No Medical, Legal, or Financial Advice

Community discussions are for educational, creative, and discussion purposes only. Users may not present posts as professional medical, legal, financial, or investment advice.

If a discussion touches on serious real-world topics, users should use reliable sources and avoid misleading claims.

9. Accuracy and Sources

Cosmic Civilizations welcomes theories and speculative ideas, but users should not intentionally spread misinformation or present unsupported claims as confirmed facts.

When possible, include reasoning, evidence, references, or source links to help other users understand your idea.

10. Spam and Abuse

Do not spam the website, manipulate votes, create fake accounts, repeatedly post the same content, abuse reports, scrape the website, or attempt to disrupt the service.

We may limit, suspend, or remove accounts that abuse community features or attempt to bypass moderation.

11. Profile Images and Names

Profile names and avatars must follow the same community rules. Offensive, misleading, impersonating, explicit, hateful, or infringing profile content may be rejected or removed.

Uploaded avatars may require approval before appearing publicly on the website.

12. Reporting Problems

If you see content that appears unsafe, abusive, spammy, or against these Community Guidelines, please contact us through the Cosmic Civilizations contact page.

13. Enforcement

Violating these Community Guidelines may result in content removal, rejected submissions, disabled features, account suspension, or account removal.

We may take action when necessary to protect the community, the website, our users, and our payment-processing eligibility.

14. Related Policies

These Community Guidelines work together with our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Refund Policy.

15. Updates to These Guidelines

We may update these Community Guidelines as Cosmic Civilizations grows. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.