Public Value Open community rules

Voluntary and safe participation

Create only lawful, reasonably safe, specific activities. Do not pressure anyone to accept or remain, target protected characteristics, demand dangerous conduct, or use a Duel, Competition, Tournament, vote, application, team, invitation, or public record to harass, threaten, shame, exploit, discriminate, or deceive.

Honor refusals, blocks, removals, evidence-access limits, registration decisions, and withdrawals. Do not create another account or use a team, token, or intermediary to continue unwanted contact.

Identity, evidence, voting, and result integrity

Do not impersonate, coordinate fake participants, manipulate eligibility or lifecycle events, submit another person’s work without permission, fabricate or tamper with evidence, conceal a relevant conflict, misstate a response or score, cast or solicit an unauthorized ballot, evade quotas, or attempt to access a record you are not authorized to see.

Organizers, scorers, reviewers, and operators must follow the published format and authority boundary, record corrections rather than rewriting history, and recuse themselves where the product requires it. AI-generated material must be disclosed when the activity requires disclosure and must never be presented as verified evidence merely because a tool produced it.

Privacy and publication

Do not expose credentials, invitation or evidence-access tokens, private communications, unnecessary personal information, malware, or regulated data. Publish another person’s identity, work, result, or Proof record only through the product’s required consent and visibility controls.

Reports, restrictions, corrections, and appeals

A participant may decline, withdraw, block, report, request a correction, or appeal where offered without proving wrongdoing in advance. Reports and appeals must be made in good faith. Retaliation, evidence destruction, or attempts to bypass a temporary restriction are prohibited.

The project may restrict access, freeze an affected record, preserve relevant audit evidence, require recusal, reverse an unauthorized action, or pause commands while a concern is reviewed. A product disposition does not prevent anyone from using an appropriate external legal, emergency, or professional process.