Server Ownership and Poaching

Let us start with assuring everyone, as always, that it is not against the rules of the hub to either own nor join other kink servers.

All of us have lives, including Discord lives, outside of the hub and we want you to enjoy the people and places you spend time with. It is never our goal to stop you from that.

We do, however, expect a few common courtesies:

Owning a Server
- If you decide to start a server in direct competition with a hub server, simply let us know. It is truly fine. But when servers are hidden, it’s understandable that it can look like there are poor intentions.
- Do not plagiarize hub content. Many staff have worked very hard to build protocols, themes, events, etc. If you want to start your own, please do your own work and do not steal ours. We of course do not own the concepts of consent or traffic lights, etc. but write your own material.
- Do not betray hub privacy ie as always, do not discuss the hub outside of the hub
- Do not poach members. (Described below)

Joining a Server
- Please do not poach. (Described below)
- As always, do not discuss the hub outside of the hub.
- Simply be aware. If you join a server and notice an odd amount of hub members, consider that staff or members of that server may be poaching. While this is not your fault, please report it. Best case scenario: there’s no poaching, only coincidence, and nothing happens. Worst case: we find our poaching is involved and are able to take actions to protect the hub.

Poaching
Poaching can look differently in different situations.

Inviting a legitimate friend to a server is not poaching. Telling someone about a server with a theme you know they’re interested in is (probably) not poaching.

What is poaching?
- Sending invites en masse (more than 2-3)
- Coordinating a group to all send invites together
- DM requesting or FRing for the explicit purpose of inviting to a server without legitimate cause
- Obviously putting out either links or ads/descriptions of servers while in the hub in a way that encourages people either to ask you for an invite or ask how they can join etc.

You will never be in trouble for inviting a friend elsewhere, or being invited elsewhere. But we do take issue if those invites are methodical or disingenuous when it becomes clear the underlying goal is really just to populate another server rather than genuine invitation.

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