Keeping it clean

Anonymous doesn't mean unmoderated. Here's every lever, who pulls it, and what it actually does.

Flag it

Flag it sits on a flick or clip's own page and on a thread. Open the thing, one tap, then a reason:

Straight-up illegal · Nudity · Spam · Biting / impersonation · Sketchy file · Slurs · Something else

You can add one line of detail. Then it's in the queue, and "Flagged. Someone will look at it."

Flags are a post like any other — signed by your tag, carrying no address, no device, nothing about where you were when you sent it. Flagging somebody doesn't tell them you did.

Ignore this writer

Ignore this writer is the personal one — on a writer's own wall, or on a flick they put up. Their stuff stops appearing for you. It follows your tag rather than the browser you're in, so it holds on your other devices too.

It's reversible: Stop ignoring, and they're back. Everybody you've ignored is listed under Setup → Ignored writers.

This is a filter on your own wall, not a report. Nobody gets told, nothing goes in a queue, and if you want somebody actually dealt with, flag them as well.

Buff this

Buff this is you taking your own post down. It comes off the wall and out of the index, and it doesn't come back.

Two limits worth being straight about:

• It can't reach a copy somebody else already saved. Screenshots are forever everywhere, including here.
• A mod can buff your post too, if it's the kind of thing that gets buffed.

What mods can do

Flags land in a queue that a small number of mods work through. They can take a post down and they can ban the tag that put it up. A banned tag gets refused at the door on the next thing it tries to put up — not hidden, refused.

Mods see the flagged post, the reason, and how long the flagging tag has been around. They don't see an address, a location or a device, because none of that exists to be shown. The moderation screen only opens on a device that's already been set up to moderate — there's no login form to attack, and no list of moderators to lean on.

Zero tolerance, no discretion, no appeal: any sexual content involving minors. It's removed, the tag is banned, and it's reported to the NCMEC CyberTipline. Full detail on the terms page.

Getting put on

Setup → Put someone on mints a one-writer put-on: a code and a link. Hand it to one writer.

When somebody starts a tag through a put-on, they skip the line — the extra wait a brand-new tag normally does before it's trusted goes away. On the pick-a-tag screen it just says "Somebody put you on. You skip the line on your first post."

Why it exists:

• It's anti-spam. A spam farm can't be vouched for, and vouching leaves a trail between the voucher and the vouched-for — so a whole spam tree can be dropped in one action rather than one tag at a time.
• It's how this kind of place is meant to fill up. Somebody puts you on. That's the tradition; it's not a growth hack.

Put-ons are good for one writer each. Old ones stay listed on your Setup screen so you can tell who you've already handed one to.

You do not need a put-on to use 1NKY. Anybody can pick a tag and post; a put-on just skips the newcomer wait.

What we can't do

Worth saying in a moderation page, because it cuts both ways:

• We can remove content from 1NKY. We can't take back a screenshot somebody saved.
• We can ban a tag. We can't ban a person, because we don't know any people — a new tag is a new tag. That's the honest cost of no accounts, and the reason bans lean on the wait-and-vouch system instead of on identity.
• We can't tell you who somebody is, and neither can anybody who asks us. That's the whole architecture.

Where to go next

• Bugs & feature requests — the non-moderation channels.
• Terms of use — the rules, written down.
• Responsible disclosure — if you found a hole, not a bad post.