Clarification regarding Terms of Use: "Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg" #1831

rice7th commented 2025年03月26日 18:57:04 +01:00

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Hello! I am new to Codeberg, and before fully joining the platform I read the Terms of Use and I stumbled upon the fifth section:

5. You must not share any content that's expressing hate or encouraging violence towards a person or group for any reason. We also explicitly do not tolerate:

• Discriminatory behaviour towards and promoting oppression, especially of marginalized groups on grounds of ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, education, age, and religion.
• Violent nationalist propaganda, Nazi symbolism or promoting the ideology of National Socialism.
• Mobbing, stalking, doxxing (exposing someone's personal information), brigading (inciting a group to spam a specific place for any reason), threatening and harassment, as well as encouraging others to do those things.
• Insults, discriminatory jokes, sexualized comments and other unwanted sexual attention.
• Sexually obscene content, including content involving the exploitation or sexualization of minors.
• Content that's glorifying violence; that includes any violent material without a proper content warning.
• Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg.

I was immediately intrigued by the last statement. What is content "that harms the reputation of Codeberg"?
Let's say that one day Codeberg does something that I despise. Can I critique the Platform or does that infringe rule §2.5?
Also does this only apply to content hosted on Codeberg (as stated by the section § 2) or on other platforms too? Like If I decide to write bad things about Codeberg on Reddit will there be any consequences here?

Anyways, no worries, I have no intention to critique Codeberg, I think you guys are amazing and I am very grateful that this platform exists.

### Comment Hello! I am new to Codeberg, and before fully joining the platform I read the Terms of Use and I stumbled upon the fifth section: > 5. You must not share any content that's expressing hate or encouraging violence towards a person or group for any reason. We also *explicitly* do not tolerate: > - Discriminatory behaviour towards and promoting oppression, especially of marginalized groups on grounds of ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, education, age, and religion. > - Violent nationalist propaganda, Nazi symbolism or promoting the ideology of National Socialism. > - Mobbing, stalking, doxxing (exposing someone's personal information), brigading (inciting a group to spam a specific place for any reason), threatening and harassment, as well as encouraging others to do those things. > - Insults, discriminatory jokes, sexualized comments and other unwanted sexual attention. > - Sexually obscene content, including content involving the exploitation or sexualization of minors. > - Content that's glorifying violence; that includes any violent material without a proper content warning. > - Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg. I was immediately intrigued by the last statement. What is content "that harms the reputation of Codeberg"? Let's say that one day Codeberg does something that I despise. Can I critique the Platform or does that infringe rule §2.5? Also does this only apply to content hosted on Codeberg (as stated by the section § 2) or on other platforms too? Like If I decide to write bad things about Codeberg on Reddit will there be any consequences here? Anyways, no worries, I have no intention to critique Codeberg, I think you guys are amazing and I am very grateful that this platform exists.

Gusted commented 2025年04月04日 15:44:55 +02:00

FTR, what I will state is not set in stone of how the rules will be used and merely provide an example of how the rules could be used/interpreted.

What is content "that harms the reputation of Codeberg"?

Anything not covered by the other items that warrants removal by Codeberg and by Codeberg host that content it harms Codeberg's reputation due to the nature of the content.

A purely hypothetical example: an LLM dataset is hosted on Codeberg and was found to contain maliciously scraped content¹ . Codeberg's user base is clearly against this kind of practice; by not removing this content, Codeberg's reputation is damaged because people will leave the platform and complain about it publicly. So this rule could be used to remove the content.

Let's say that one day Codeberg does something that I despise. Can I critique the Platform or does that infringe rule §2.5?

I don't think the intention of the rule was to cover criticism of Codeberg. Codeberg receives daily/weekly criticism and as far as I know no one has been banned for this.

Also does this only apply to content hosted on Codeberg (as stated by the section § 2) or on other platforms too? Like If I decide to write bad things about Codeberg on Reddit will there be any consequences here?

This is trickier, because it amounts to facilitating actors (people or organisations) on the platform, which then damages Codeberg's reputation rather than the content the actors published on Codeberg. Which is not strictly covered by this rule as 'content'.

Taking the LLM dataset again as an example, if the owner of the LLM dataset were instead to publish the dataset on Github and use Codeberg for its issue tracker. It could then be argued that allowing that harms the reputation of Codeberg as people could see this as Codeberg accepting such practices.

FTR, what I will state is not set in stone of how the rules will be used and merely provide an example of how the rules could be used/interpreted. > What is content "that harms the reputation of Codeberg"? Anything not covered by the other items that warrants removal by Codeberg and by Codeberg host that content it harms Codeberg's reputation due to the nature of the content. A purely hypothetical example: an LLM dataset is hosted on Codeberg and was found to contain maliciously scraped content[^1]. Codeberg's user base is clearly against this kind of practice; by not removing this content, Codeberg's reputation is damaged because people will leave the platform and complain about it publicly. So this rule could be used to remove the content. [^1]: Lets ignore that existing copyright laws might justify the removal of this (See ToS §2.4). > Let's say that one day Codeberg does something that I despise. Can I critique the Platform or does that infringe rule §2.5? I don't think the intention of the rule was to cover criticism of Codeberg. Codeberg receives daily/weekly criticism and as far as I know no one has been banned for this. > Also does this only apply to content hosted on Codeberg (as stated by the section § 2) or on other platforms too? Like If I decide to write bad things about Codeberg on Reddit will there be any consequences here? This is trickier, because it amounts to facilitating actors (people or organisations) on the platform, which then damages Codeberg's reputation rather than the content the actors published on Codeberg. Which is not strictly covered by this rule as 'content'. Taking the LLM dataset again as an example, if the owner of the LLM dataset were instead to publish the dataset on Github and use Codeberg for its issue tracker. It could then be argued that allowing that harms the reputation of Codeberg as people could see this as Codeberg accepting such practices.