Our Moderation Principles

Community Standards

1. Physical and Emotional Harm:

   1. Inciting Violence:

      Perstoc’s Inciting Violence policy prohibits content that facilitates, encourages, praises, or supports acts of violence, whether perpetrated by terrorist organizations or individuals. We also prohibit content that reveals private, personally identifiable information (also known as doxxing).

   2. Inciting Hate:

      Perstoc’s Inciting Hate policy prohibits praise and support for hate organizations, as well as content that advocates violence against, superiority over, or the nonexistence of a protected group. We also prohibit content that contains hateful stereotypes or slurs.

   3. Sexual Exploitation:

      Perstoc’s Sexual Exploitation policy prohibits content created or distributed without the adult subject’s consent. This includes revenge porn, creepshots, upskirt shots, and any other behavior that distributes sexualized content without the subject’s consent.

   4. Suicide and Self-Injury:

      While Perstoc is a place for people to express themselves, we don’t allow content that glorifies, encourages, praises, or supports suicide or self-injury. For resources on suicide and self-injury, call 988 or text HOME to 741741.

   5. Child Sexual Abuse Material:

      Perstoc has a zero-tolerance policy on content that sexualizes minors, whether it concerns real children or representations. Sexualized content that includes real children will be reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

2. Financial Harm:

   1. Scams and Malicious Behavior:

      Perstoc is not a custodian of user funds or NFTs, but we do prohibit behaviors that could lead to the loss of user funds or NFTs, such as a drained or stolen wallet, installed malware, links to unsecured sites, or a failure to deliver what was promised (i.e., rug pull).

   2. Fundraising:

      Some people may be prohibited from using Perstoc’s platform for fundraising purposes, such as government officials and political candidates in their official capacity. For those who are eligible to list or sell items for fundraising purposes, there may be restrictions on the types of causes or organizations where funds may be directed.

3. User Experience:

   1. Spam:

      Perstoc’s Spam policy prohibits unsolicited content distributed for commercial/promotional or abusive/malicious purposes. This includes airdropping multiple items to the same wallet or airdropping the same item to a large number of wallets.

   2. Copymint:

      Perstoc’s Copymint policy prohibits items or collections that could be easily confused with an existing prominent item or collection. To help users distinguish between similar collections, we require multiple changes from the original work.

   3. Misleading Collections and Accounts:

      Perstoc’s Misleading Collection and Account policy prohibits any effort to confuse users into making a purchase, such as implying a relationship with a creator or naming the collection “v2” of a popular collection.

   4. Misleading Checkmarks:

      Perstoc prohibits user-generated checkmarks that are similar to Perstoc’s verified checkmark.

   5. NSFW:

      Perstoc’s NSFW policy allows consensually created and distributed adult content. We only require that it be labeled NSFW to provide users with an opportunity to decide whether they want to view it.

   6. Burn Function:

      Perstoc’s Burn Function policy requires creators to disclose any burn functionality included in the item’s smart contract. We also prohibit some conditions for activating the burn function, such as burning an NFT for being listed below the floor price.

   7. Inorganic Volume:

      Perstoc prohibits efforts to artificially increase sales volume or floor price, such as through coordinated sales between wallets or other manipulative activity. Perstoc removes collections with inorganic volume from the homepage and, in some instances, bans accounts engaging in the behavior.

Intellectual Property

Perstoc does not allow content that violates the intellectual property rights of others, including trademark, copyright, and the right of publicity. Perstoc relies on the rights holder or their legal representatives to submit a valid takedown request. For more information about our copyright enforcement, please see our Copyright Help Center article.

Actions We Take

While Perstoc doesn’t have the ability to delete or remove content posted to underlying blockchains, we employ a few different enforcement mechanisms that help uphold our policies and community guidelines across the Perstoc platform. We do our best to tailor the type of enforcement to the type of harm we perceive:

• We can opt to NOT FEATURE AND LIMIT SEARCH DISCOVERY of content that’s not specifically in violation of our policies or guidelines but that we believe may lead to a negative experience on our platform.
• For content that violates our policies but we believe people should still have the opportunity to view on our platform, we will carefully evaluate whether it aligns with the high standards we maintain for extraordinary NFTs on Perstoc. Accordingly, we can DISABLE the buying, selling, and transferring of a given NFT or collection using Perstoc’s services. In some cases, we may instead not charge the Perstoc fee so that we are not monetizing this type of content.
• For content that violates our policies and we believe that even viewing the content may result in harm to users, we can DELIST an item or collection entirely, hiding them and rendering them inaccessible and undiscoverable on Perstoc.

Because we’re a curated NFT marketplace, Perstoc aims to provide access to a diverse range of extraordinary NFTs while balancing openness with our commitment to quality and user safety. We delist content if there is a risk of real-world harm or loss, or if the law requires us to do so. For example, we have a zero-tolerance policy for CSAM (child sexual abuse material) and delist that content from Perstoc as soon as possible after we’re made aware of it. Similarly, if we think content was created with the specific intent to deceive (for example, if it is a copyminted work), we take action and delist it from Perstoc.

It is the case that we will disable but not delist some content that people may find deeply offensive or triggering but that does not directly rise to the level of causing real-world harm or loss. If you have feedback about our content moderation decisions, please let us know by reporting content that appears to violate these policies.

Commitment to Continuous Improvement

As pioneers in the NFT marketplace, Perstoc is committed to the ongoing enhancement of our policies, ensuring an unparalleled experience for our users.