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Community rules

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Unmonkey is a place to roast coding practices. The Old Dev is a cartoon villain, not a real person. These rules keep the jokes about the practice and the people safe.

1. The golden rule

Roast practices, never real people. Make fun of webpack configs, tabs vs spaces, copy-pasted Stack Overflow answers and Friday deploys. Do not make fun of a real person you can identify: a named developer, a coworker, a boss, a streamer, or a company's staff.

2. What is not allowed

• Harassment, bullying, threats or calls for violence.
• Hate or abuse aimed at someone's race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age.
• Sexual content, and anything that sexualises minors.
• Sharing private information about anyone (doxxing), including names, handles, employers or workplaces in a way that identifies a person.
• Self-harm content or content that encourages it.
• Illegal content, scams, spam, ads and links to other services.
• Copying someone else's quote and posting it as your own. Duplicates are filtered out.
• Fake accounts, impersonation and offensive usernames.

3. Quotes and counter-quotes

Keep them short, funny and about the practice. Old Dev counter-quotes follow the same rules: the Old Dev can be grumpy, but never cruel to real people.

4. Comments

Roast in the comments, but argue with the idea, not the person. No pile-ons.

5. Confessions

Confessions are anonymous stories from converted devs about their old sins.

• Do not name or describe real people, teams or employers so that someone can be recognised.
• Do not share confidential or private company information.
• A human reviews every Confession before it is published. We never show who wrote one.

6. Roast my stack

Your roast is private until you share it. If you share it, you are the one publishing it, so these rules apply to the shared card too. Use the roast on your own setup, not to target someone else.

7. How moderation works

• Everything users write is checked automatically before it is public.
• Anyone can report a quote, comment, Confession or profile with one tap. You can also block a user.
• Reported content may be hidden while a person looks at it.
• If you break the rules, we can remove content, change a username, limit features or close the account. Repeat or serious cases can lead to a permanent ban.

8. Play fair

One person, one account. No bots, no vote trading, no exploiting bugs. Vibe from the community decides rank and the tournament; money does not.

9. Report a problem

Use the report button in the app, or write to [CONTACT EMAIL].