Community Guidelines

Our purpose is education, evidence-led discussion, and respectful collaboration.

What these guidelines add

• They make participation safer for people who want to contribute without exposing private information.
• They tell readers what kind of disagreement is useful here and what kind of behavior gets in the way of reviewable learning.
• They protect the correction and fact-check lanes from turning into harassment or status arguments.
• They reinforce that public discussion still has evidence, privacy, and moderation boundaries.

Pseudonymous by default

• Screen names are allowed. Do not pressure others to reveal legal names.
• Do not post personal identifying information about yourself or others.

Respectful conduct

• Debate ideas, not people.
• No harassment, threats, slurs, dehumanizing language, or targeted attacks.
• No doxxing or sharing private messages publicly without consent.
• No impersonation or false claims of authority.

No fraud

Do not request or provide instructions to forge documents, falsify records, or commit fraud.

Careful claims

• Label community memory, oral tradition, spiritual interpretation, and debated claims.
• Do not present Muur history as identical to Moor history.
• Do not use the site to certify identity, ancestry, tribe, nationality, DNA conclusions, legal status, descent, or membership.

Participation self-check

• Can another reader tell whether your contribution is a source lead, memory note, correction request, interpretation, or privacy concern?
• Have you removed living-person details, private contact information, raw DNA data, and private family records before posting?
• Does the wording ask for review instead of demanding that a sensitive claim be accepted as settled?

Moderation

Submissions may be held, edited for privacy, declined, or moved into a Fact Check or Corrections workflow when needed.