Users are allowed one account per lifetime. If your account is disabled, contact staff in #disabled on IRC. Never make another account, you will be disabled without question.

If you no longer wish to use your account, send a Staff PM and request that your account be disabled.

Accounts are for personal use only. Granting access to your account in any way (e.g., shared login details, external programs) is prohibited. Invite friends or direct them to the interview channel (#recruitment).

You agree to log into the site regularly in order to keep your account in good standing. Failure to do so will result in your account being disabled. See Account Inactivity for more information.

You are responsible for your invitees. You will not be punished if your invitees fail to maintain required share ratios, but invitees who break golden rules will place your invite privileges and account at risk.

Only invite people you know and trust. Do not offer invites via other trackers, forums, social media, or other public locations. Responding to public invite requests is prohibited. Exception: Staff-designated recruiters may offer invites in approved locations.

Requesting invites to—or accounts on—{{ constant('SITE_NAME') }} or other trackers is prohibited. Invites may be offered, but not requested, in the Invites forum (restricted to the Elite class and above). You may request invites by messaging users only when they have offered them in the Invites Forum. Unsolicited invite requests, even by private message, are prohibited.

Transferring buffer—or increasing your buffer—through unintended uses of the BitTorrent protocol or site features (e.g., request abuse) constitutes ratio manipulation. When in doubt, send a Staff PM asking for more information.

Reporting incorrect data to the tracker constitutes cheating, whether it is accomplished through the use of a modified "cheat client" or through manipulation of an approved client.

Your client must be listed on the Client Whitelist. You must not use clients that have been modified in any way. Developers interested in testing unstable clients must receive staff approval prior to testing.

Embedding non-{{ constant('SITE_NAME') }} announce URLs in {{ constant('SITE_NAME') }} .torrents is prohibited. Doing so causes false data to be reported and will be interpreted as cheating. This applies to standalone .torrent files and .torrent files that have been loaded into a client.

Embedded in each {{ constant('SITE_NAME') }} .torrent file is an announce URL containing your personal passkey. Passkeys enable users to report stats to the tracker.

Exposing or threatening to expose private information about users for any reason is prohibited. Private information includes, but is not limited to, personally identifying information (e.g., names, records, biographical details, photos). Information that has not been openly volunteered by a user should not be discussed or shared without permission. This includes private information collected via investigations into openly volunteered information (e.g., Google search results).

Scams (e.g., phishing) of any kind are prohibited.

Disagreements must be discussed privately with the deciding moderator. If the moderator has retired or is unavailable, you may send a Staff PM. Do not contact multiple moderators hoping to find one amenable to your cause; however, you may contact a site administrator if you require a second opinion. Options for contacting staff include private message, Staff PM, and #help on IRC.

Impersonating staff or official service accounts (e.g., Hermes) on-site, off-site, or on IRC is prohibited. Deceptively misrepresenting staff decisions is also prohibited.

"Backseat moderation" occurs when users police other users. Confronting, provoking, or chastising users suspected of violating rules—or users suspected of submitting reports—is prohibited. Submit a report if you see a rule violation.

Special events (e.g., freeleech, neutral leech, picks) are launched at the discretion of the staff. They do not adhere to a fixed schedule, and may not be requested by users.

It is prohibited to use {{ constant('SITE_NAME') }}'s services to harvest user-identifying information of any kind (e.g., IP addresses, personal links) through the use of scripts, exploits, or other techniques.

Commercializing services provided by or code maintained by {{ constant('SITE_NAME') }} (e.g., Gazelle, Ocelot) is prohibited. Commercializing content provided by {{ constant('SITE_NAME') }} users via the aforementioned services (e.g., user torrent data) is prohibited. Referral schemes, financial solicitations, and money offers are also prohibited.

You may browse the site through a VPN/proxy only if you have paid for this service. This includes (for example) self-hosted VPNs or proxies, services like NordVPN and VPNs or proxies that come with a seedbox. When in doubt, please send a Staff PM. The use of Tor for browsing the site is not allowed.

All automated site access must be done through the API. API use is limited to 5 requests within any 10-second window. Scripts and other automated processes must not scrape the site's HTML pages. When in doubt, seek advice from staff.

The automatic snatching of freeleech torrents using any method involving little or no user-input (e.g., API-based scripts, log or site scraping, etc.) is prohibited. See {{ constant('SITE_NAME') }}'s Freeleech Autosnatching Policy article for more information.

Seeking or exploiting bugs in the live site (as opposed to a local development environment) is prohibited. If you discover a critical bug or security vulnerability, immediately report it in accordance with {{ constant('SITE_NAME') }}'s Responsible Disclosure Policy. Non-critical bugs can be reported in the Bugs Forum.

The publication, organization, dissemination, sharing, technical discussion, or technical facilitation of exploits is prohibited at staff discretion. Exploits are defined as unanticipated or unaccepted uses of internal, external, non-profit, or for-profit services. Exploits are subject to reclassification at any time.

Staff on {{ constant('SITE_NAME') }} are volunteers who dedicate their time in order to keep the site running, while receiving no compensation. Being disrespectful to them is prohibited, and might result in a warning or a ban.

All rules on {{ constant('SITE_NAME') }} may be subject to different interpretations. Since the staff wrote these rules, their interpretation is final. If you need clarification on a rule, or if you think a rule should be restated, please send a Staff PM.