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Guidelines

pixiv Guidelines


The pixiv corporation (henceforth, "we") understands its corporate responsibility for pixiv (henceforth, "the service") and observes specific guidelines in order to operate smoothly and healthily.


Regulations

Based on our guidelines, we enforce the following regulations.
These regulations were not determined by any ethical organization, but were chosen independently by us, so if the company or circumstances change we may change them at our discretion.
Please be aware that this is not guaranteed to be continuously up to date.


Adding of Age Restrictions and Removal of Works

Images, their titles and their captions are all treated as part of a work, so when adding age restrictions or removing works, the service's management team will first check the information in the "Report Information about This Work" form. If the work is deemed problematic, it will be deleted or an age restriction added, and malicious conduct prohibited by the rules below will be dealt with through deletion of the user's ID.
Please be aware that you will not receive an answer if you ask why your ID was deleted.


Prohibited Conduct

  • Submitting several prohibited works, whether all at once or one at a time.
  • Making tags or comments which constitute libel or threats, or cause economic or mental harm.
  • Using user IDs or image IDs from this service or other sites for libel.
  • Using crawlers and other programs to gather works.
  • Anything which places an extreme burden on the server.

Age Restricted Works

The service requires age restrictions to be set on works which are not suitable to be viewed by minors.
Please be sure to set an age restriction when submitting any works to which the following apply.

    [ R-18 ] [ R-18G ]:Works containing images unsuitable for those under 18.

  • Anything related to sex, or depicting it, contacting genitalia, or anything strongly resembling a sexual act.
  • Violent scenes, ideas and memes are also highly dangerous and disturbing for minors.

Prohibited Works

All of the following will be candidates for deletion.

  • Images which constitute libel or threats, or cause economic or mental harm.
  • Images which represent or display genitalia.
  • Images which represent or display foreign objects in genitalia.
  • Images containing needlessly warped or distorted depictions of sex.
  • Images containing shockingly or disturbingly strong violence.
  • Images promoting needlessly extreme ideas.
  • Images glorifying or excessively fostering antisocial conduct.
  • Images with an unfavorable depiction of any ethnicity, belief, occupation, sex or religion.
  • Images displaying the actions of religious cults or political extremists.
  • Images which contain inhuman cruelty, are exaggerated to be needlessly shockin.
  • Images which might turn such cruel or shocking content into a meme.
  • Images which contain a clearly sexualized depiction of young children.
    * If censorship (such as mosaics) is used, exceptions to the above may be made to the extent popular wisdom allows.
  • Images based on photographs.

    However this does not apply to the following cases:

    ( 1 )
    Images with photographs as backgrounds, rather than as subjects.
    ( 2 )
    Images which have been altered to the point that it is no longer clear if they are photographs.

About Censorship (adding mosaics)

  • Generally speaking, censorship is the obfuscation of detail based on visual judgments rather than programs.
  • It is to be done over a region of sufficient size such that no program can undo it.
  • The borders of the object are to be included in the obfuscation.
  • Transparent obfuscation through which detail can be seen does not count as censorship.
  • The following are guidelines on using mosaics:
    Mosaics should use squares at least 4x4 pixels large, and if the image is more than 400 pixels long, the dimensions of the squares of the mosaic should be one hundredth of the length of the whole image.
  • The obfuscation is meant to include all parts which need to be obfuscated, but it may include others as a result.

Examples of parts which may need to be censored

  • Genitalia, or parts which resemble genitalia
  • The area where genitalia penetrate or contact other genitalia
  • The area where genitalia penetrate or contact the anus
  • Depictions of severed or lacerated body parts in needlessly graphic detail

As of October 8th, 2007