Suggested Suspension Length: 7 days
This category includes:

• Wrongfully claiming ownership of artwork
• Tracing artwork without the consent of the original owner or artist
• Repeatedly creating unauthorized edits after the original artist asked to stop

Commonly known as art theft, this is something we take very serious as the work of artists are the life blood of our website. Any found traced pictures will be deleted and any wrong claims will be hidden or corrected.
Important to note, we still allow “fan edits” but we will remove them if the artist wishes so and we may take action against the editor if the edits continue to be uploaded after the artist has asked to stop them.

Suggested Suspension Length: 3 days
This category includes:

• Failure to abide by direct instructions by an administrator, moderator, and/or employee of Bad Dragon or Dragonfruit

This is intended to make sure that any instructions given by the staff of e621 are followed, but is mainly for minor things that are annoying or disrupting.

Suggested Suspension Length: 3 days
This category includes:

• Failure to cite a minimum of 4 tags to an uploaded post
• Adding a tag to a post that is not either clearly visible, or reasonably assumed
• Removing a valid tag, either as part of a dispute/argument, or to place one that is not correct
• Failure to properly set the rating of your upload (https://e621.net/help/ratings)
• Adding invalid/disruptive tags, or any tags that could be considered as defamatory or spam
• Using Unicode in tags, with the exception of foreign artist/character names

The purpose for this is to prevent users from abusing the system that for easy searching/indexing of the posts. This enforces the site’s “Tag What You See” rule, in that you cannot tag an image as “male” or “female” unless there is visible evidence of that. Even if another site has the same character with better visibility of its gender, that post uniquely must contain those elements. Mistagging, adding invalid tags, or removing valid tags are not punishable for a one-time offense, but they will be disciplined if they produce a pattern of tagging abuse.

Suggested Suspension Length: Permanent
This category includes:

• Creating posts, threads, or comments that link to hacks or malicious programs/viruses

If you want to report a hack or other malicious program, please contact the site administrator via the Contact Us page with screenshots and/or other evidence sufficient to reproduce the problem
If someone is found to have violated this rule, they may be banned regardless of previous disciplinary action
Alternatively, you may contact any admin via dmail, email, or IRC chat to report this issue

This is intended to keep the website free of unwanted software/malware. Understand that the user may not be outwardly aware that their link is harmful, but most are pretty obvious that they intend to infect others. Senior management approval is not needed to ban someone for this. Example: a post containing a hyperlink to a website with generic/unrelated content and a large number of attention-grabbing ads

Suggested Suspension Length: 3 to 7 days
This category includes:

• Knowingly uploading previously deleted content
• Posting content listed in the Avoid Posting List (https://e621.net/wiki/show?title=avoid_posting)
• Failure to cite a minimum of 4 tags to an uploaded post
• Knowingly adding or editing a post source to an incorrect link
• Knowingly or repeatedly uploading a lower-resolution image, if there is a higher-resolution of that image available
• Uploading screenshots, images under 200x200 pixels, images with artifacts or large watermarks, and/or non-artistic images (motivational posters, Second Life, memes, image macros, etc.)
• Editing/creating post descriptions (if you are not the artist, uploader, character owner, or commissioner) to create information
• Using post descriptions to express personal feelings, create drama, or otherwise take away from describing the attached post
• Please try to use proper spelling and grammar in post descriptions

This is intended to ensure there is a minimum level of quality on the website, by ensuring people who have specifically requested that their art not be on the site, removing art that is sufficiently poor quality, or encouraging tag usage. It also is expanded to include post descriptions and ensure that no one uses it to vandalize someone’s post.

Suggested Suspension Length: 7 days
This category includes:

• Using any of the site tools, such as Flag for Deletion, ticket reporting system, takedowns, tags, notes, or any other site tool in a fashion that can be construed as disruptive, spamming, or defamatory
• Putting gibberish in any of the description fields
• Repeatedly submitting invalid, incorrect, or unnecessary requests
• Repeatedly submitting username change requests
• Using Unicode in tickets, username changes, or any other use of site tools
• Using any of the site tools to “backseat moderate”
• Reporting posts, threads, comments, or any other site media that is older than 6 months

It should be noted that if a user reports a post, thread, comment, or any other site media that is older than 6 months, but contains a publicly visible malicious link, that will be exempt from this rule

In addition, if a person who is submitting content wishes it for it to be removed, for any reason, within 48 hours, that request will be honored.

This is aimed at making sure trolls and other disrespectful people do not detract or harm the look of the website by putting it requests for admin action with no clear, real, or valid basis. An example is someone who issues multiple username change requests in a short period of time. Another is someone repeatedly reporting another user’s comments when they didn’t break any rules.