Dracarium

Community Guidelines

Effective date: September 2, 2026

1. The short version

Dracarium is a small, independently-run space for people who love dragon and fantasy fiction. Be a person other readers are glad to run into. Everything below is really just that idea applied to the specific tools this site gives you — mute, block, report, direct messages, reviews, quotes, and feature suggestions.

2. Respectful conduct

  • No harassment, threats, hate speech, or targeted abuse of another reader, on their profile, in a review's comments, or anywhere else.
  • No impersonating another person, author, or account.
  • Disagree with someone's take on a book all you like — attack the argument, not the person.
  • If someone's bothering you, you don't need our permission to mute (stop seeing them) or block (stop them from seeing or contacting you) them from their profile. Those tools are yours to use freely, and using them isn't itself something you need to justify to anyone.

3. Direct messages

Direct messages get their own section because they're the one feature that reaches someone directly rather than something they choose to browse into.

  • Respect the DM permission someone has chosen (Edit Profile → Direct Messages) — "Mutuals only," "Following," or "No one" isn't a suggestion, it's their boundary.
  • A message landing as a "request" instead of going straight to someone's inbox is not an invitation to send more before they've accepted the first one.
  • Unsolicited harassment, explicit content, or repeated messages after being asked to stop are never acceptable — even from someone whose settings technically allow you to message them in the first place. "I was allowed to send it" is not a defense against "I was asked not to."
  • Direct messages are plain text only, by design — no links, images, or attachments are supported, which also means there's no way to send a file-based exploit through one.

4. Reviews, quotes, suggestions & other content

  • Mark spoilers as spoilers — the tools exist (has-spoilers flags, spoiler-safe mode) precisely so you don't have to choose between discussing endings and ruining them for someone else. The same goes for content-warning tags on a book itself — flag genuinely dark or difficult content honestly, the same way you'd flag a spoiler.
  • A quote should be an actual excerpt from the book, attributed honestly — not a paraphrase presented as a direct quote, and not something pulled from elsewhere and passed off as the book's own text.
  • Don't copy someone else's review, quote collection, or other writing wholesale and repost it as your own.
  • No spam, no illegal content, no content that infringes someone else's rights.
  • Feature suggestions and their comments follow the same rules as everything else here — keep a suggestion about the site itself, and no spam or harassment in the discussion around it.
  • Don't use alternate accounts, or coordinate with others, to inflate or bury a review, quote, or suggestion's votes — an upvote or like is only meaningful if it reflects one person's genuine opinion.

5. Reporting something

Every review, comment, quote, direct message, and profile has a report option. Reporting sends it to a moderator's queue — it doesn't take any action on its own, and the person you reported is never told who reported them.

6. What happens when a rule is broken

Moderation here is deliberately proportionate:

  • A warning — a documented notice on your account. It doesn't restrict anything by itself, but it's on the record.
  • Suspension — blocks posting new reviews, comments, quotes, diary entries, likes, lists, follows, added books, buddy reads, and direct messages until it's lifted. You can still browse and manage your own account normally throughout.
  • Content removal — a specific review, comment, or quote gets hidden (or, for a direct message, removed) without necessarily affecting the rest of your account.

Moderation decisions here are made by a real person, not an automated system, and every action taken is logged.

Creating a new account to get around a warning, suspension, or content removal is itself a violation — doing so typically extends the original action to the new account as well.

7. Appealing a decision

If you think a warning, suspension, or content removal was a mistake, you can appeal it directly — go to Help & Contact and pick "Appeal a suspension or warning." A suspended account can still submit an appeal; that's specifically what the appeal path is for. See the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for how the rest of the site works.