Community Standard
The shared expectations that help people create, gather, play, collaborate, and show up with dignity and informed choice.
Updated October 3, 2026
How We Show Up
These standards apply across SIGNAL's digital spaces, Sessions, Circles, Creator Commons, Fifth Realm, and related community activity.
SIGNAL is for intentional participation, not attention at any cost. Respect names, identities, boundaries, time, privacy, access needs, and another person’s choice to decline or leave. Describe plans, communities, campaigns, and opportunities honestly.
Harassment, intimidation, threats, unwanted repeated contact, stalking, doxxing, retaliation, and encouraging others to target someone are not permitted. Blocking or declining contact must be respected both online and offline.
Do not attack or dehumanize people based on protected or vulnerable characteristics, promote hateful organizations, praise extremist violence, recruit for extremist causes, or use coded imagery to evade these rules. Historical, educational, journalistic, gaming, cosplay, or artistic context may be considered during review.
SIGNAL by Five Fifths prohibits Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE), Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), sexual exploitation of minors, grooming, sextortion, solicitation of minors, and sexualization of minors, including computer-generated material. Sexual harassment, coercion, nonconsensual sexual content, explicit pornography, and sexual exploitation are also prohibited. Lawful non-explicit fashion, swimwear, breastfeeding, anatomy, artistic figure work, and cosplay are not violations solely because skin is visible or a theme is mature.
Credible threats, instructions facilitating real-world harm, celebration of severe real-world violence, and severe graphic gore are prohibited. Fictional or game violence, fantasy art, historical material, cosplay weapons, and moderate fictional blood may be allowed when the context is clear and the material is not used to threaten or shock others.
Do not impersonate another person or organization, misrepresent affiliation, create deceptive opportunities, manipulate compensation, solicit fraudulently, distribute malware, spam members, or coordinate inauthentic engagement. Do not pressure someone to move to unsafe payment or communication channels.
Do not publish another person’s private contact, financial, medical, legal, location, identity, or intimate information without permission. Private Circle, message, application, report, roster, and moderation information must not be redistributed to shame or endanger people.
Hosts must describe time, location context, access, cost, capacity, and meaningful changes accurately. Participants must follow venue rules, respect consent, avoid unsafe pressure, and leave when directed for a legitimate safety reason. SIGNAL reports are not emergency services.
Circle owners may set relevant local rules, but may not use them to excuse harassment, discrimination, exploitation, or retaliation. Do not use chat to coordinate harm, expose private information, repeatedly contact someone who has disengaged, or evade a moderation action.
Share only material you have the right to use. Do not distribute stolen content, proprietary rulebooks, pirated media, unlawful goods or services, or instructions whose purpose is criminal harm.
Use the closest report target and describe what happened without adding unnecessary sensitive information. Good-faith mistakes are not abuse, but knowingly false, retaliatory, coordinated, or manipulative reports may themselves require review. Do not publicly campaign around a private report in a way that harasses the people involved.
Depending on severity, context, history, and risk, Five Fifths may limit visibility or features, remove content, preserve evidence, issue a warning, suspend account access, or make a specialized legal or safety escalation. Ordinary moderation decisions are not automatic permanent bans. Final appeals and enforcement procedures require legal and operational review.
Need Support?
Signed-in members can report suspected CSAE/CSAM through the private Trust and Safety page using Sexual Content and a context link. Do not upload, download, or forward suspected illegal material as evidence. You can also contact support@the5thsignal.com. Reports receive restricted human review and appropriate removal or account suspension; suspected child exploitation is escalated through the child-safety procedure. If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services. SIGNAL is not an emergency response service.
Community safety depends on context, evidence, proportional review, and good-faith participation—not popularity or public pressure.