LudoLog is a community-driven platform for board game achievements, tracking, and curation. These Community Guidelines explain what kind of content and behavior we expect on the platform.
They are here to keep LudoLog useful, respectful, and fun, while also protecting the platform, its users, and third-party rights.
These Community Guidelines complement our Terms of Service and other legal policies. If there is a conflict, the Terms of Service control.
1. Be respectful
Treat other users with basic respect.
Do not post or send content that is:
- insulting, abusive, harassing, hateful, or threatening;
- discriminatory or degrading;
- sexually explicit or clearly inappropriate for the platform;
- intended to provoke, intimidate, or humiliate others.
Disagree with the achievement, the vote, or the idea but not the person.
2. Keep content relevant to the game
LudoLog is for board game achievements and related community contributions.
Please keep your content:
- relevant to the game in question;
- understandable and useful;
- written in your own words;
- worth adding to the catalog.
Do not spam, flood, troll, or post repetitive low-quality content.
3. Write clear and useful achievements
Achievements should be understandable, playable, and meaningful.
Good achievements are usually:
- clearly phrased;
- connected to actual gameplay;
- reasonably trackable;
- not misleading;
- not obvious duplicates of existing achievements;
- understandable without copying official materials.
Avoid achievements that are:
- vague or confusing;
- impossible or broken;
- misleading or dishonest;
- pure placeholder text;
- only funny in a way that adds no value.
Humorous or meme-style achievements are allowed, as long as they are still understandable, playable, and useful within the context of the game.
4. Use your own words
Do not copy protected third-party content into LudoLog.
This includes, in particular:
- rulebook text;
- card text;
- scenario text;
- publisher descriptions;
- official flavor text;
- artwork, icons, logos, or graphic assets;
- screenshots or other game materials you do not have permission to use.
You may refer to official content, mechanics, game situations, or even official achievements, but you must describe them in your own words unless you have the right to reproduce the original material.
5. Spoilers: be considerate
Please be considerate when creating or editing achievements that may reveal hidden content, endings, surprise mechanics, secret identities, or scenario details.
Where the platform provides spoiler-related options or tags, please use them responsibly.
Spoiler labeling is strongly recommended, even where it is not mandatory.
6. House rules, variants, and challenge achievements
House-rule achievements, challenge achievements, and variant-based achievements are allowed where the platform supports them.
Please make sure such achievements are:
- clearly marked where possible;
- not misleadingly presented as standard gameplay;
- understandable to other users;
- still meaningful and playable.
Do not present a house-rule or variant achievement as an official or default game objective unless that is actually correct.
7. Official and unofficial content
Do not falsely present community-created content as official.
If an achievement is inspired by official content, publisher material, or an existing digital achievement system, that may be acceptable if:
- it is written in your own words;
- it does not copy protected text or assets;
- it is not misleadingly labeled as official when it is not.
Where the platform provides a way to label or distinguish official and community content, use that system honestly.
8. AI-generated content
AI-assisted achievements or descriptions are not automatically prohibited.
However, if you use AI tools, you remain responsible for the result.
Do not submit AI-generated content that is:
- generic, bloated, or low-quality;
- inaccurate or misleading;
- copied from protected material;
- unplayable, unclear, or obviously unreviewed.
If you use AI, make sure the final contribution is checked, edited, and actually useful to other players.
Low-effort AI spam is not allowed.
9. Voting should improve the catalog
Voting exists to improve quality, not to attack people.
Use votes honestly and in good faith:
- upvote content that is clear, useful, creative, and well-designed;
- downvote content when it is unclear, duplicated, misleading, inappropriate, low-quality, or otherwise problematic.
Do not:
- mass-upvote or mass-downvote;
- coordinate voting attacks;
- use voting to target a person;
- manipulate ranking systems through multiple accounts or abuse.
Where the platform offers downvote reasons or related feedback tools, choose the most accurate option.
10. Reports must be made in good faith
If you report content, do so because you genuinely believe there is a problem.
Examples may include:
- copyright concerns;
- abusive or hateful content;
- spam;
- duplicates;
- misleading or unusable achievements;
- missing spoiler consideration;
- false claims of being official content.
Do not abuse the reporting system to retaliate, silence other users, or win arguments.
Bad-faith reporting may itself lead to moderation action.
11. Public profiles and community presence
If you make parts of your profile public, keep them appropriate for a mixed community setting.
Do not use your profile, bio, or public content to:
- harass others;
- post hateful, explicit, or inappropriate content;
- impersonate another person, publisher, or organization;
- promote scams or unrelated commercial content.
12. Trusted Users and Curators
Some users may receive additional community roles such as Trusted User or Curator.
These roles exist to moderate and improve the quality, structure, and usefulness of the platform.
Trusted Users and Curators are expected to act:
- fairly;
- consistently;
- respectfully;
- with care for the catalog and the community;
- without abuse of their permissions.
Abuse of role-based powers may result in removal of those permissions or further moderation action.
13. No manipulation or abuse
Do not attempt to manipulate the platform or its systems.
This includes:
- creating multiple accounts to influence votes or moderation;
- evading restrictions or bans;
- scraping or automating access without permission;
- attempting to access data or features you are not authorized to access;
- interfering with moderation, curation, or platform integrity.
14. What may happen if rules are broken
If content or behavior violates these guidelines or our Terms, we may take proportionate action.
This may include:
- editing, labeling, or reclassifying content;
- reducing visibility;
- removing content;
- merging duplicates;
- limiting certain features;
- removing community roles;
- suspending or deleting an account in serious or repeated cases.
Where appropriate, we may also provide a reason and an opportunity to request review.
15. Help keep the catalog strong
A strong LudoLog contribution is usually:
- clear;
- fair;
- original;
- playable;
- useful to others.
Before posting, ask yourself:
Does this improve the catalog for other players?
If the answer is no, it probably needs more work.
16. Related policies
For more detail, please also see: