Content rules

This is a catalog of fabric maintained by people who make fursuits. The rules below exist so it stays that, and so contributing a photograph of your own work does not expose you to anything.

What belongs here

Photographs of fur: on the bolt, on a swatch, under the rig, on a finished suit. Measurements, specifications, prices, vendor information, and notes about how a fabric behaves. Corrections to any of the above.

Contributions do not have to be good photographs. A phone picture of a swatch in daylight is genuinely useful. The catalog would rather have your imperfect data than your silence.

What does not

• Sexual content, and anything sexualizing a minor without exception or nuance. This is a fabric catalog; there is no version of it that needs this.
• Photographs of identifiable people without their consent. If someone is recognizable — face, tattoo, an unmasked moment at a con — you need their permission before you upload it. Fursuit photography makes this easy to get wrong, so when in doubt, ask them or crop them out.
• Identifiable minors. Not accepted, pending a separately reviewed policy.
• Other people's photographs, including vendor product photography. See the contribution terms for why this one matters more than it looks.
• Personal information about anyone, yourself included: addresses, legal names attached to fursona names, workplaces, phone numbers, anything in an image's background you did not mean to publish.
• Harassment, in any field that accepts text. Curation notes and comments are not a place to settle things with another maker or a vendor.
• Deliberately false data. Being wrong is fine and expected. Entering measurements you know to be wrong is not, because someone will spend money on them.
• Anything that is not about the fabric. The list above is not exhaustive and it is not the test. The test is the section before it: a contribution is here to show what a fabric is and how it behaves. Something doing none of that does not belong here even when it breaks none of the specific rules above — this is a fabric catalog, and it is not a gallery, a forum, or a storefront.

Naming other people

Vendors get named, described, and criticized — that is most of the point, and honest negative information about a seller is valuable.

Individuals are different. Do not attach someone's legal name to their fursona, or their fursona to their employer, or connect any two identities a person has kept apart. In this community that can cost somebody their job. It is treated as a serious violation regardless of whether the information was already findable elsewhere.

Reporting something

Use the in-app report form: choose what kind of problem it is, link the photograph or entry, and say what is wrong with it. You do not need an account to file one. You can also email reports@aussie-theo.dog if you would rather — that address is still monitored — but the form reaches a moderator directly.

If it is not obvious, say why — a report reading "this is my photograph and I did not upload it" is acted on very differently from "this measurement looks off".

Reports about safety, personal information, or images of a person are prioritized over everything else.

If a report concerns a photograph of you, you do not need to prove anything elaborate. Say so and it is taken down while it is reviewed.

What happens next

A reported item is withdrawn from public view promptly and then reviewed. That is not a finding against you; it is a pause, and it is reversible.

A moderator does this through a moderation console: a report is attached by hand to the photographs it concerns, a photograph can be withheld from every reader while it is looked at, and the decision that ends the matter is recorded against it. Every moderator view of a withheld photograph is logged. The console and its audit log are in place.

Review ends one of three ways: the item comes back, the item is removed, or the item stays with a correction attached. Either way the reason and scope are recorded, so the decision can be examined later rather than taken on trust.

Removal means the file stops existing. The record that a removal happened stays, without keeping or reconstructing what was removed.

Appeals

You can appeal any decision, including one about your own content.

An appeal is reviewed by someone other than the person who made the original decision. That separation is the whole point of an appeal, and it is now real: this project had a single moderator until recently, which meant an appeal went back to the person who had already decided. If every moderator was involved in the original decision, we tell you that rather than stage a review that is not independent.

Appeals go to reports@aussie-theo.dog. An appeal gets a written answer with a reason. "No" is an acceptable outcome; silence is not.

Moderator access

Moderators can see restricted content, including photographs that are never publicly published, because reviewing a report sometimes requires it.

Every such access is recorded and auditable: when a moderator is shown a restricted photograph, the log keeps who saw it, which item, and when. The reason a view was necessary is not written against the picture — an image request cannot say why anyone is looking — but against the review it belongs to: when a moderator opens a report to answer it, that review is recorded, and the access made while answering it is shown against that report. An access with no review open to explain it is not a blank line; it is shown as a bare access, which is exactly the thing this log exists to make visible.

Moderators do not browse restricted material out of curiosity. The log exists so that claim can be checked rather than believed.

Enforcement

Proportionate and in this order, most of the time: a correction, a conversation, a removal, a withdrawal of the ability to contribute. Deliberate harm — doxxing, sexual content involving minors, malicious data — skips to the end immediately.

Contributing is currently invite-only, so in practice the last step is withdrawing an invitation. Beyond that, a moderator can record a sanction against an account: a suspension, which carries an expiry and lapses on its own, or a permanent bar. Either names what it covers — one area of the catalog, or the whole account — and both record the reason and the moderator who applied them, so an appeal has something to read instead of a role that quietly changed.

Any of this is appealable on the same terms as anything else.