Community Guidelines

This is a translation provided for convenience. If it differs from the Polish version, the Polish version applies. Polski

Verdiktum works when people can trust what they read here. These rules apply to cases, evidence, comments, usernames and profiles.

1. Bring evidence, not accusations

• State facts that others can check. Evidence that claims a fact needs a link to a source.
• Mark what is your own reasoning as analysis, and what you witnessed as testimony.
• Do not fabricate or alter sources, screenshots, recordings or quotes.
• If you use AI to prepare a contribution, check it yourself. You are responsible for what you post.

2. Protect private individuals

• Do not open cases about private individuals and do not accuse identifiable people of crimes or misconduct. Public figures can be examined in connection with their public role and public statements.
• Everyone is presumed innocent until a court decides otherwise. Write about what a source says, not about what a person “must have done”.
• Do not publish private data: home addresses, phone numbers, identity numbers, private photos, health information, workplaces of private individuals, or data of children.
• Do not organise or encourage contacting, following or confronting anyone. If you have information about a crime or a missing person, give it to the police.

3. Crime and missing-person cases

• Such cases may only be based on information already made public by authorities, courts or reputable media.
• Do not name suspects who have not been officially identified.
• Respect victims and their families. Do not post graphic material.

4. Respect people

• No harassment, threats, hate speech or incitement to violence.
• Argue with the point, not with the person.
• No sexual content and no content that sexualises or endangers minors.

5. Respect other people’s work

• Link to sources instead of copying them. Short quotations with attribution are fine.
• Do not post content you have no right to publish.

6. Keep the system fair

• One person, one account. Do not use additional accounts or coordinate with others to push ratings.
• No spam, advertising or irrelevant links.
• Do not rate evidence on the basis of who added it.

7. What happens when rules are broken

Depending on the seriousness, moderators may remove content, reduce points, suspend an account or close it. You always receive the reasons and you can appeal. See Reporting and appeals.

8. Reporting

Use the flag next to any content, or the report form, which does not require an account.