Content policy

Last updated October 5, 2026

This covers every place the app shows one reader’s words to another: the Agora, an anonymous discussion space; quotes you make public on your profile, with a note; a quote you pass to a friend, with the line you add, and the note a friend writes back to you; the note you leave for the next reader of a book; what you post when you read a book together with friends; and your profile’s own words — your name, bio and the lines on your recommendation sets. All of it is metadata-only — a short quote with attribution, and talk around it, never the book’s text or your generated pictures themselves.

Quotes

• A quote is 280 characters at most, and must be the book’s own words at that place.
• It carries attribution: the book’s title and author (and, in the Agora, the chapter).
• Across everything you’ve quoted from one book — Agora threads and quotes you’ve made public together — there’s a running cap (currently 2,000 characters total). It’s there so many short, individually-fine quotes can’t add up to reconstructing a large part of a book. Once you reach it, that book’s quotes are done.

The Agora’s boards

The Agora has four boards: Books, where every thread begins from a quote of a book; Humanities, for history, philosophy, religion and art, where a quote is welcome but not required; Off-topic; and Meta, about the app itself. Each board’s own rules are pinned first on it. A thread that leaves its board is kept in that board’s archive, read-only for every reader, for 17 days, and then deleted.

Criticise anything; give your reasons

No post is removed for the opinion it holds — only for breaking one of these rules. Any belief, group or identity — race, gender, sexuality and religion included — may be criticised, with reasons. A bare verdict (“those people are bad”) says nothing about the thread, so it is low effort, and a reader can report it as such: that is a judgement made by reports and a person reading them, never by a filter, and its pauses are short.

Insults are fine if you earn them — write more than the jab: a reply with an insult in it needs about fifteen words of your own, not insults, for each one. While you type, the box says in words when an insult hasn’t been earned yet, and a bare insult isn’t posted. Padding a reply with filler to get past this is harassment, under the ladder below. A short list of slurs — words that demean people for their race, religion, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, national or ethnic origin, or disability — is refused at any length, whatever the wit; a book’s own quote is never held for a word in it, and a word may be discussed inside a quotation of the thread’s own quote.

A reply has to say something about the thread: “bump”, “^”, “up”, “+1”, “this”, “first”, an emoji alone and the like aren’t posted. A thread’s opener can always reply, but their own replies move the thread up at most once every few hours. Padding a bump to dodge this is spam.

Not allowed, anywhere in the Agora

• Contact details of any kind — phone numbers, social handles, email addresses.
• Links.
• Arranging to meet up, on or off the app.
• Any mention of where to get a book outside of buying or borrowing it — no shadow libraries, no file-sharing, no “does anyone have a copy of.”
• Slurs, from the short list above, and threats of violence. Harassment: going after one person, from thread to thread or by padding past the rules above.
• Sexual content, which isn’t safe for work — on every board, Off-topic too.
• Posts about private people you can name — someone you know by name, their school or workplace singled out, or details that would identify or find them. Argue the text, not the person: authors, public figures and characters in books are fine.

Some things are stopped before they’re posted; the rest relies on your reports and a person reading them. An automatic check, built-in and sometimes by a model, looks only for the objective things on this list — slurs, threats, sexual content, and contact details or links written to hide — never at tone, anger or a view.

Who the Agora is for

The Agora is for readers 18 and over, who confirm it once before reading threads or posting. Posting opens once you’ve read about a sitting’s worth of a book of your own; browsing is always open. How talk goes there is on the manner of the Agora.

Anonymity, and what we keep

Other readers see your posts as “OP” or “Poster 1,” “Poster 2,” and so on within a thread — never your name. The app keeps an internal record of who wrote what, used only to enforce this policy and act on reports; it’s never shown to other readers.

Reporting and blocking

Every post and thread has a Report action. A report is read by a person, and content that breaks a rule here is taken down under that rule, named in its place. Nothing is taken down for the opinion it holds. You can also block another poster: everything they wrote in that thread, and anything they write anywhere from then on, no longer shows up for you. A block never shows you which of their earlier posts elsewhere were theirs — that would undo the Agora’s anonymity — so Unblock everyone, once a day, brings back what they write after it, not what they wrote while blocked.

When a rule is broken

A post that breaks a rule is taken down, and in its place the thread says “Removed under the rule:” and names it; its writer sees the same, and on their next visit is told privately, with their own words. A first offence of a minor rule is a short pause, not a long one, and a ban can come on a first offence too. A banned writer can’t post for a while — reading stays open — and sees the rule, when they can post again and how to ask for a review, once for each ban or removal; a moderator looks at the post and the rule, never at who wrote it. Each rule has its own ladder, and a new ban within 90 days of an earlier one takes the next rung. A ban for good is only for what is illegal or endangers someone, or for coming back under a new account after a ban.

In your first days of writing, a new thread comes once a day and replies a few minutes apart. The same words posted again within a day, on any thread, are refused as spam. If several different readers report one of your posts as spam, your posting pauses until a moderator has looked.

How long those first days of limits last, and how much one of your reports counts toward hiding a post under a clear-cut rule, depend on how you have read and posted here: reading in the app, time without a removal, reports a moderator upheld, and any removals or bans. That standing is worked out privately; it is never shown to anyone, you included, and it only ever lifts or tightens those limits — it never ranks a post or a person.

• No contact details: 15 minutes, then 1 day, then 3 days, then 7 days.
• No links: 15 minutes, then 1 day, then 3 days, then 7 days.
• No meeting up: 15 minutes, then 1 day, then 3 days, then 7 days.
• No spam: 15 minutes, then 6 hours, then 1 day, then 3 days.
• Low effort: 15 minutes, then 6 hours, then 1 day.
• No saying where to get a book: 1 day, then 3 days, then 7 days, then 30 days.
• No posts about private people: 1 day, then 3 days, then 7 days, then 30 days.
• Safe for work: 1 day, then 3 days, then 7 days, then 30 days.
• No harassment or hate: 3 days, then 7 days, then 14 days, then 30 days.
• No threats of violence: for good.
• No doxxing: for good.
• Nothing illegal: for good.
• No ban evasion: for good.
• The manner of the Agora: 15 minutes, then 1 day, then 3 days.

Changes to this policy

We’ll update the date above whenever this changes.

Contact

If you think this is a mistake, ask for a review, or write to admin@conjure-reader.app. A review is asked for from the notice a pause or a removal leaves, once for each, and a moderator looks at the post and the rule, never at who wrote it.