🤝 Community guidelines
Short version: be specific, show your work, credit others, and don't be the reason we need more rules.
✅ What makes this place good
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Be specific
"My query returns NULL for mid-year stores, here's the CASE WHEN" beats "SQL not working". Specific questions get specific answers.
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Show your queries
This is a platform about evidence. Claims come with the code that produced them; feedback points at lines, not vibes.
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Credit ideas you borrow
Learned the trick from someone's repo or reply? Say so. Credit costs nothing and builds the culture that makes the work here trustworthy.
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Welcome beginners
Everyone's first cohort table is wrong. Point at the fix, not at the person.
🚫 What gets removed
Spam and self-promotion unrelated to the work; harassment, insults, or discrimination of any kind; posting someone's private information; plagiarism — publishing someone else's analysis as your own; malicious content of any sort, including attempts to abuse the platform, its datasets, or its coin system; and off-topic flooding that drowns out real work. Moderators remove such content without debate.
🚨 Reporting
Every post, comment, and profile has a Report option (spam, abuse, malicious, other — with room for details). Reports go to a moderator queue and are reviewed by a human. Reporting is confidential: the reported person never sees who reported them. False or bad-faith reporting is itself a violation.
⚖️ The enforcement ladder
1️⃣Warning
A first, minor slip usually earns a message from a moderator, nothing more.
2️⃣Content removal
The offending post or comment is taken down; your account is untouched.
3️⃣Ban
Repeated or serious violations block all interactive access — posting, commenting, voting, publishing. Your account and published work remain.
4️⃣Account termination
Reserved for malicious behavior: the account is removed and published work is anonymized. This is rare, final, and never a surprise — it follows the ladder except in extreme cases.
Questions about a moderation decision? Contact support@lucidplexus.com. These guidelines complement the Terms of Service; where they differ, the Terms prevail.