The Rules
Effective Date: May 24, 2026
1. The Demotect Rules
Demotect's purpose is to serve the global design, architecture, and visual arts community. We provide a space for users to explore physical transformations, urban planning, and AI-driven architectural visions.
To ensure that everyone can participate freely and safely, we have established these Rules. Violations of these rules may result in content removal, a reduction of your Trust Score, or permanent account suspension.
2. Safety
We are committed to maintaining a safe environment. The following behaviors and content types are strictly prohibited.
2.1 Violent Content
You may not share excessively gory or violent media. Furthermore, explicitly threatening, inciting, glorifying, or expressing desire for violence is not allowed.
2.2 Violent & Hateful Entities
You cannot affiliate with or promote activities of violent and hateful entities.
2.3 Perpetrators of Violent Attacks
We will remove posts disseminating manifestos or other content produced by perpetrators, as well as suspend any accounts maintained by individual perpetrators of terrorist, violent extremist, or mass violent attacks.
2.4 Hate Speech
You may not attack, threaten, or incite violence against other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.
2.5 Adult Content & Nudity
Unlike some general-purpose social networks, Demotect is focused on architectural, environmental, and visual design transformations. Explicit adult content, pornography, and sexually explicit media are strictly prohibited. Our automated moderation systems (via AWS Rekognition and OpenAI) will instantly reject and delete such imagery, and your account will get flagged and risk suspension.
2.6 Child Safety
We have zero tolerance for any form of child sexual exploitation (CSAM) or the physical abuse of children. Accounts found sharing such material will be permanently banned and reported to the appropriate legal authorities and organizations (such as NCMEC).
2.7 Abuse and Harassment
You may not share abusive content, engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. This includes repeatedly interacting with a user who has explicitly requested you stop, or organizing brigades to target a specific profile.
2.8 Self-Harm
You may not promote, encourage, or provide instructions on suicide or self-harm.
2.9 Illegal or Certain Regulated Goods or Services
You may not use our service for any unlawful purpose or in furtherance of illegal activities. This includes selling, buying, or facilitating transactions in illegal goods or services, as well as certain types of regulated goods or services.
3. Privacy
3.1 Private Information (Doxxing)
You may not publish or post other people's private information (such as personal phone numbers or private residential addresses) without their express authorization. Map Pinning: While pinning posts to the Global Map is a core feature of our platform, using the map to maliciously pin private residences in an attempt to harass or expose an individual is strictly prohibited.
3.2 Account Compromise
You may not use or attempt to use credentials, passwords, tokens, keys, or cookies to log into or modify the private information of any Demotect account other than your own.
4. Authenticity & Platform Manipulation
To ensure that our feeds and maps represent genuine community interest, we strictly forbid artificial manipulation.
4.1 Platform Manipulation and Spam
You may not use Demotect in a manner intended to artificially amplify or suppress information. This includes operating bot networks to generate fake "Likes," artificially inflating the "Vote" count on Before/After sliders, or selling engagement metrics.
4.2 Misleading and Deceptive Identities
You may not impersonate individuals, groups, companies, organizations, or government entities to mislead, confuse, or deceive others. Parody, commentary, and fan accounts are permitted, provided they clearly indicate in their bio that they are not affiliated with the actual subject.
4.3 Civic Integrity
You may not use Demotect’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes. This includes posting or sharing content that may suppress participation or mislead people about when, where, or how to participate in a civic process.
4.4 Copyright and Intellectual Property
You may not violate others’ intellectual property rights. If you upload content that you did not personally create, you are required to have a license or explicit permission to use and redistribute the original creator's content and you are required to use our Copyright tool to declare the correct license (e.g., Creative Commons, Fair Use, Public Domain) and provide attribution to the original creator. For more information on submitting a takedown notice, see our Copyright Policy.
5. Map Integrity & AI Guidelines
Because Demotect hosts unique tools like the Global Map and AI Studio, we have specific rules to protect the integrity of these features.
5.1 Global Map Integrity
Our interactive map relies on accurate data. You must not intentionally assign false geographic coordinates (Map Pins) to your posts to manipulate trending algorithms or deceive users. Furthermore, abusing the "Suggest Location Correction" feature to maliciously move another user's accurate post is a violation of these rules and will result in a penalized Trust Scores or even account suspension if done systematically.
5.2 AI Studio Usage
You may not use the AI Studio to generate harmful, illegal, or deceptive content (including deepfakes intended to cause political or personal harm). You must not attempt to bypass or override the safety filters embedded within our AI generation models.
5.3 Labeling Synthetic Media
We encourage the use of AI to visualize architectural redesigns. However, you must accurately label synthetic or AI-generated media. When uploading an image that was generated or substantially modified by an artificial intelligence tool (including our AI Studio), you must use the platform's frictionless "AI Generated" toggle on the image to clearly mark it. Deceptively sharing synthetic media as genuine photography is prohibited.
6. Enforcement and Appeals
Our moderation team and automated systems actively enforce these rules. Potential consequences for violating these rules include:
- Requiring the deletion of specific posts or images.
- Removing your posts' eligibility from the Global Map and public search.
- Reducing your internal Trust Score, which limits your organic reach of posts.
- Revoked privileges of using the Global Map, AI Studio or other features.
- Temporary or permanent suspension of your account.
If you believe an enforcement action was taken against your account in error, you may submit an appeal by contacting us at support@demotect.com from the email address associated with your account.