Content Policy

1. What this covers

This policy applies to everything you publish to a public surface on Draftingboard: author pages, published works on your bookshelf, and shared pieces. Your private drafts are yours alone — this policy does not apply to anything you haven't chosen to share.

We publish fiction, and fiction gets dark. Difficult themes — violence, abuse, addiction, war — are legitimate subjects for storytelling and are welcome here. The rules below are about conduct and harm, not about subject matter.

2. What's not allowed

• Content you don't have rights to. Don't publish work that infringes someone else's copyright or trademark, including AI-laundered reproductions of others' work.
• Sexual content involving minors. Zero tolerance, fictional framing included. Reported to the relevant authorities.
• Targeted harassment or threats. Content that targets a real, identifiable person with harassment, doxxing, or credible threats — fiction labels don't exempt this.
• Incitement. Content that calls for violence against real people or groups.
• Spam and platform abuse. Bulk-published filler, SEO bait, hosting files unrelated to writing, or using the bookshelf as a generic file CDN.
• Impersonation. Author pages that pose as another real person or organization.

3. How reports are handled

Every public work has a "Report this work" option. When you file a report:

• It goes into a moderation queue reviewed by a human.
• If the work violates this policy, it is unpublished or removed; serious or repeated violations lead to account suspension.
• We don't notify the reporter of the outcome, but every report is reviewed.

Reports are the right tool for policy violations. Disliking a story is not a policy violation.

4. Copyright takedowns (DMCA)

If you believe work published on Draftingboard infringes your copyright, send a takedown notice to [email protected] including:

• A link to the infringing work on Draftingboard
• Identification of the original copyrighted work (a link or copy)
• Your contact information
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are the rights holder or authorized to act for them

We remove or disable access to infringing content promptly and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers, consistent with our Terms of Service.

5. Enforcement

Depending on severity, enforcement ranges from unpublishing a single work to suspending the account. We aim to be proportionate: a first-time copyright mistake is handled differently from a spam operation. Suspension decisions are logged and auditable internally.

6. Questions

If you're unsure whether something you want to publish crosses a line, email [email protected] before publishing — we'd rather answer a question than process a report.