Community Guidelines

1. The short version

Rank things. Argue about them. Be as harsh as you like about a film, a football team, or a sandwich.

The line is drawn at real people who did not sign up for it, at content that is illegal, and at material that exists to hurt someone rather than to make a point. Everything below is a longer way of saying that.

These guidelines apply to everything you publish here: chart titles and descriptions, the labels on tiers and axes, uploaded images, your public name, and the charts themselves. They apply the same way whether you have an account or not.

2. Never allowed

Sexual content involving minors

This is an absolute prohibition with no context that excuses it, including drawings, edited images, and anything stylised or fictional. We remove it, we permanently ban whoever uploaded it, we preserve what the law requires us to preserve, and we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and to law enforcement. There is no appeal for this category.

Do not use the site to sexualise a minor in any way, including ranking real children by appearance.

Intimate images shared without consent

Never publish nude or sexual images of someone who did not agree to have them published, including images made or altered to look like them. If you appear in something like this on our site, write to [email protected] with the address of the page. We treat these as urgent, we remove first and ask questions after, and you do not have to prove you own the image or explain why it matters.

The rest of the never list

• Sexual content generally. No pornography or sexually explicit imagery. This is a site people browse at school and at work.
• Violence and threats. No threatening a person or a group, no encouraging anyone to hurt someone, no glorifying a mass killing or its perpetrator, no gore published for its own sake.
• Hate. No attacking people over race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or serious disease, and no hate symbols used seriously. Ranking is not a loophole: a tier list is still an attack when its point is that a group of people belongs at the bottom.
• Harassment. No pile-ons, no charts made to humiliate a specific person, no using the site to continue a fight from somewhere else.
• Private information. No home addresses, phone numbers, workplaces, schools, identity documents, or login details, whether they belong to someone else or were sent to you.
• Self-harm. No encouraging suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders, and no ranking methods of any of them.
• Illegal goods and serious crime. No selling drugs, weapons, or stolen material, and no promoting terrorism or organized crime.
• Deception. No malware, phishing, scam funnels, fake giveaways, or ads dressed up as charts. No impersonating another person, a brand, or this site.
• Anything illegal where you are or where we operate.

3. Charts about real people

Ranking people is one of the things this format is for, and most of it is completely fine. Rank footballers, presidents, streamers, and the cast of a sitcom to your heart's content. Two distinctions decide the rest.

Public figures, in their public role

A politician's record, an athlete's season, a musician's albums, a creator's videos: rank and criticize all of it, including harshly. What you cannot do is use someone's public profile as cover for something else: sexualising them, accusing them of a crime you have invented, or publishing their private details.

Private individuals

Do not publish a chart that ranks people who are not public figures without their agreement. Classmates, coworkers, teammates, people from your town, an ex and their replacements: these charts are the single most common way this site gets used to hurt somebody, and being able to say "it was just a tier list" afterwards does not undo it.

Ranking your own friends privately is not the problem. Publishing it is. If you want to make one anyway, keep it unpublished, or use first names only with no photographs, and take it down the moment anyone in it asks.

Three lines that apply to everyone

• No inventing facts about people. Tier labels that state or imply somebody committed a crime, has a disease, or did something shameful are defamatory when they are untrue, and "it is obviously a joke" is a defense you would have to make in court, not here. Opinions ("worst album", "overrated") are fine; assertions of fact you cannot back up are not.
• No sexual ranking of real people. Rating real people by body or attractiveness with photographs is off limits regardless of who they are, and is treated far more seriously where anyone in it may be under 18.
• Anyone in a chart can ask for it to come down. Write to [email protected] from any address with the page address and which entry is you. You do not need to own the photograph, prove your identity to a legal standard, or cite a law. We weigh the request against whether the person is a public figure and what the chart actually says, and we remove where the balance is anywhere close.

Photographs of people are also somebody's copyright, usually the photographer's. See the copyright policy for that side of it.

4. Other people's work

Charts are built from other people's images, and we would rather say something useful about that than pretend otherwise.

• Upload things you made, things you have permission to use, or things you are using for genuine commentary, criticism, or parody. Ranking is often exactly that kind of commentary, which is why the format exists at all.
• That is not a guarantee. Fair use is decided case by case by courts, and we do not certify anyone's use as fair. A rights holder can send us a takedown notice about material we would personally have thought was fine, and we have to act on it.
• Do not upload whole works (a full comic page, a paid asset pack, an artist's portfolio) where the chart is a delivery mechanism rather than a comment.
• Credit artists where you can. It is not a legal requirement and it does not make an unlicensed use lawful, but it is the difference between a chart an artist tolerates and one they report.
• Repeated takedowns against the same account end it. See the repeat infringer policy.

5. Reporting something

Every published chart has a Report button, which is the fastest route and goes straight into the moderation queue. Use it for anything on this page.

• Copyright goes to the designated agent instead. A copyright claim sent through the report box is not a valid legal notice and cannot be treated as one.
• Anything urgent (a child at risk, intimate images, a credible threat) should go to [email protected] as well as through the button, so it is not sitting in a queue.
• You do not need an account to report, and you do not need to be involved in what you are reporting.

Tell us what is wrong rather than just that something is. "The third image is a photo of me, taken at my school" gets acted on; "this is bad" often cannot be.

Reporting in bad faith is itself a breach of these guidelines. Mass-reporting a chart because you disagree with it, or filing false reports to get a rival removed, costs you the ability to report at all.

6. How we enforce this

When an image is added to a chart, it is scanned automatically. That scan is reliable on sexually explicit imagery and much weaker on graphic violence, which it will often miss, so violent content is caught by your reports and by our own review rather than by the scan. A chart that trips the scan, or that three different visitors report, is hidden from public pages until a person looks at it. Sexual content involving minors is not a moderation judgement at all: it is removed, the account is closed, and it is reported to the authorities and reporting organizations, however we come to hear about it.

Automated scanning is imperfect in both directions and we do not pretend otherwise, which is why hiding is reversible and why section 7 exists. We are not obliged to monitor everything published here, and reviewing content does not make it ours or mean we agree with it.

Depending on what happened and whether it has happened before, we may:

• leave it alone and record the report;
• remove one image and leave the chart standing;
• unpublish the chart so only its creator can reach it;
• delete it;
• restrict or terminate the account, and block the browser or device the uploads came from.

We go straight to the last step for the first two categories in section 2, for anything illegal, and for deliberate evasion of an earlier decision. Everywhere else we would rather fix the chart than lose the person who made it.

7. Appealing a decision

If we removed, hid, or restricted something of yours and you think we got it wrong, reply to the message we sent you, or write to [email protected] with the address of the chart and what you think happened. A person reviews it, and we answer.

Say what is wrong with the decision rather than restating the chart: that we misread a joke, that the person in it is a public figure, that the image is yours, that the account flagged is not the one that uploaded it. Where we were wrong we restore the content and the record.

The exception is sexual content involving minors, which is not appealable and where the account stays closed.

If you reported something and we did nothing, you can ask us to look again the same way.

8. Notice and action for users in the EU

We are a small hosting service. Users in the European Union have specific rights when they report content or when we act on theirs, and this section states how we meet them.

• Reporting illegal content: use the Report button or write to [email protected]. Include the page address, why you believe the content is illegal, and how to reach you. Give us an email address and we confirm receipt and tell you what we decided.
• If we act on your content: we tell you what we did, what rule or law it was under, whether a report or an automated scan led to it, and how to challenge it.
• Complaints: section 7 is our internal complaint route and it is free. You also keep the right to take a dispute to an out-of-court settlement body certified in your member state, and to go to court.
• Contact point: [email protected] reaches us for these purposes, including for member state authorities, in English.

Repeatedly posting clearly illegal content, or repeatedly filing clearly unfounded reports or complaints, ends in suspension after we have warned you.

9. Changes and contact

These guidelines change as the site meets new situations. The "Last updated" date at the top moves when they do, and significant changes are announced on the site.

Questions, reports, appeals: [email protected]. Copyright: the takedown process. The binding rules are in Terms of Service section 5; where this page and the Terms differ, the Terms govern.