Kielan
03/24/15 08:06PM
FAQ READ THIS FIRST! (If your question is not answered here, site mail Mods your question, read before asking anything!)
Kielan
11/28/19 07:16PM
1. Isn't Rule34 Cartoon Characters/Hentai/Anime/Pop culture stuff/ only? THIS IS NOT RULE34!

- If it exists there is porn of it, simple rule isn't it?
one that was meant to be a joke and not taken seriously.

We choose to follow the rule to the letter, no added criteria and we make this content easy to find!

Real porn got moved to another website and we don't even own the website anymore since real porn sites are not feasible anymore.
Kielan
11/28/19 07:16PM
2. How can I change my user name? / How can I remove images, How to delete my account etc


(Please do not request by email with regard to account matters like file deletion, NO EMAIL! NO DISCORD! or anything else external from the site for account matters)

MUST READ: If you request your account to be deleted via site mail, you cannot change your mind later, you cannot retract it, we will remove it anyways, there has been too many retractions, make your mind up first time and live with it.

NOTE IT TAKES 4 DAYS MINIMUM, THIS IS A SECURITY DELAY ON PURPOSE, IF YOU COMPLAIN OR ASK FOR US TO SPEED UP ON THE FORUM EXPECT A BAN AND NO REMOVAL.

Site mail/Site PM Admin Kielan so we know you are the account holder.

Site mail is this rule34.xxx/index.php?page=gmail&s=list
Not email which is email, for some weird reason people get confused about this very simple thing and post upload removals to email, please use site mail.

Please put in the title of the site mail what it is about. 'Account deletion''Change of username' 'Image removal' these are good titles. Putting "hello" as the title means Admin is not sure what the mail is about and it may get left till last.

Warning: if you have received a warning, you need to wait 6 months till you can change your name.

Site mail only because we need to establish you are the account owner and this is easily done via site mail/DM.

Simply contact Kielan via site mail/DM and request it= MyAccount>MyMail. rule34.xxx/index.php?page=gmail&s=send_pm put the name Kielan in the send to box.

Mention what name you would like. To check if a name is available, simply paste this in the address bar at put your chosen name after the =
rule34.xxx/index.php?page=account&s=profile&uname=

If account deletion, there is a security lag of 4-5 days for account compromise, please send another site mail if 7 days pass and it's not done.

If you are the copyright holder of images email [email protected] and request there with proof.

If not the copyright holder a user can only remove an image if they remove a corrected version, or they uploaded an image against our tos by mistake, or an image that has an obvious error, if you simply want to remove it, the site will decline since we are not an image host but an archive.

If image removal, we are an archive not imgur, so you need a very good reason for removing content from our site, we presume you are uploading something forever here, so please never upload anything you feel you may remove later. Good reasons are things like uploading a superior version which you must upload first, or if you feel it breaks our ToS in some way, you can risk-free report your own image and get no consequences for correcting the mistake yourself. REMEMBER IMAGE REMOVAL YOU UPLOADED GOES TO KIELAN SITE MAIL ONLY.

One name change per year (unless you have a good reason to need to change your name before then, in which case specify when you send a site mail), if you have been warned by staff you may not change your name until 6 months after that warning, if you have multiple warnings a year, can decide to deny you name change at any time for any reason.

(Deletion of the account will remove all personal info such as ips, email address, comments, forum posts etc.)

Account deletion request will be processed and you cannot back out of it, don't request unless you are sure, if you are account locked and request account deletion, we will ban you to ensure you cannot just make a new account and get away with it, so best to contact mods to negotiate unlock first.

If you are banned account deletion will be ignored since we don't have to remove if you got banned.

Kielan
11/28/19 07:16PM
3. Please change my password?


- We cannot change passwords, it can be done via the link below the login, if you registered with an email address a password reset link will be emailed to you (if you did not register with an email you cannot reset your password). Or you can change your password in "My Account" top left.

Remember to check spam/social/trash folders, check case of user name and email put into the boxes and make sure they are the correct way around.
Kielan
11/28/19 07:17PM
4. What is loli/sh0ta? I found some, why do you not remove it?

- If it looks/appears as if it has young or young teen anatomy it is loli for females and sh0ta for males, older teenagers are fine to remain, remember in some images the artist will draw them too young and in others a bit older so if they are drawn older, they may be OK to remain.

You can be sure that opinions will differ slightly on gauging anatomy, but ultimately it is up to us to determine if content is loli/sh0ta, please accept and do not report again reported images that have been unflagged, though you can appeal the decision.

The confusion begins when you consider fictional age or that the character is automatically a certain age based on Canon, remember that's not the case with fan art.

Fictional age cannot be applied to fan art, because fictional age does not help when the artist draws them older or younger anatomy than they are in the official media.

We go by how mature the anatomy IS, we go by as they appear in the image, image by image.

Fiction age also quite often differs from how mature the character looks, Japan fiction is well known for assigning age that does not match the anatomy of the characters.

We go by anatomy how?

The criteria is that they have the anatomy of loli/sh0ta which is mostly before teenager anatomy this is our main concern to remove.

We check anatomy by, head, shoulders, chest, waist/hips, thighs, legs, feet, all are checked to make sure they have the development of the anatomy to not be the prohibited content.

What often causes confusion is when the face, or the chest or the legs etc is judged to be prohibited but the rest is fine, can't really help that, we do try to make sure that we look at the overall picture and not just fail on one anatomy that the artist may have drawn.

AI generated content often produces anatomy which is loli/shota in a couple of body parts, this can make it hard to understand why we have removed the post, often the face or genitalia is created too young by the generator.

4a. What you have against loli/sh0ta? Why do you allow cub?

- Our advertisers, all banks etc have terms of service that forbid this sort of content, especially after the UN ruling.

So we have to remove them proactively to be able to exist, it has become an existential threat to this site, it is a simple fact of life that you must comply with the rules, it isn't something we have decided as our policy, we must adhere to all rules we are subject to.

We try to archive as much porn as possible for posterity, but some is just too controversial for advertisers and companies.

It is also very controversial/disturbing for the average user who does not wish to see that content, so it fixes that issue also.

No adverts = no Rule34, money to pay for this site has to come from somewhere.

Do not upload drawn depictions with anatomy of sh0ta/loli, you will get permanently banned and don't expect much warning, please contact staff if you upload by mistake.

We block loli/sh0ta because we are required to.

Cub is not depictions of human beings, there are no laws covering depictions of fictional animals, there are no requirements not to host this content, our policy is to allow as long as we are not required to remove it.

Block it in your tag blacklist if this offends you, trying to change the world is insanity and leads to far more suffering than it saves.

Also Cub is typically anthro animals, it's an animal, don't use human young terms like loli/shota for animals, because doing so is very messed up and sick in the head if you see that in anthro animals, we ban sick weirdo's here.

Why do we not remove every single one? because R34 is moderated by volunteers who have to spent allot of time dealing with people uploading loli/shota and don't have time to clear the backlog, maybe stop creating work for them idiot!
Kielan
01/22/20 03:55PM
5. What do you have against edits? why do you not allow edits except really really good ones?


- Nothing at all, but we do remove edits of original art work, because artists are much more likely to take down all their art if they see too many edits of their original work.

We allow only colabs with the artists consent, we advice everyone, not to upload edits for the most part.

Also we had so many edits at one point it flooded the site and we got too many complaints, same with most stuff we have to sadly not allow, we just get far too much of the content uploaded at once.

Kielan
01/22/20 03:55PM
6. I have this great idea for the site/forum to make it better! where can I tell you?


-

Site licensing will not allow anyone but the owner and the special status of a one off coder to see the code of the website, so we cannot develop with anyone else either.

We will not be developing new features as there is a big backlog in site improvements from copyright system, to mail system, to limiting new accounts so we can have the RP request thread back among other pressing improvements that need doing first.

You can suggest in one unofficial thread, but don't expect anything for a long long time, probably not unless our licensing changes, or we get new site code (this is hard because most cannot handle this volume of content so efficiently), I have no ETA on this sorry.
Kielan
01/22/20 03:56PM
7. Help I accidentally selected 'Always View In Original Size' and now some images are huge or I can't zoom out what do? I turned on desktop layout by accident, how to fix?


Go to My account>Options> Original images near the bottom and select default behavior and remember to hit save button below it.

If on mobile, check your My Account>options page, you can turn mobile layout on and off there.

Note. This cures most site related issues.

Also try another browser, if it works, then there is a problem with your original browser, if all else fails re-install.
Kielan
01/22/20 03:56PM
8. Do I have to pay anything for this site?

- no it's all free, this is why ads are important, they pay for everything, so help us stamp out loli/shota that our ad providers don't want next to their ads.
Kielan
01/22/20 03:56PM
9. Is there a way to block tags or certain images? - How to block images?

- Simply add tags with a space between each, of what you don't want to see, My Account > Options > Tag Blackt

rule34.xxx/index.php?page=account&s=options

Whatever tags you place in the blackt will be blocked, if you wish to see them again, simply remove tags from the tag blackt box.

If the image isn't tagged correctly it will still show up, you can help by editing the image and adding the tag that is missing, be sure it is correct!
Kielan
01/22/20 03:57PM
10. Why don't you add this feature that would be really great?

- Our site software is copyrighted, we cannot alter it, but we can add things to it, we try to implement as much as we can.
Kielan
01/22/20 03:57PM
11. Please stop stealing this artists artwork! why you do this? thieves!/Why do you have stolen artwork of this artist on your website?

- The artist or company owns the copyright usually, even if someone commissions a work, they and they alone decide if an artwork remains and gets publicity and backed up here, we remove all images/photo's requested to be taken down through our DMCA email system, we comply with all DMCA requests.

It's also not technically 'stealing', because the original remains with the creator, we don't charge for the artwork or claim it is ours, so technically nothing has been stolen.

We also do not upload anything from the artist/content creator, so the site never steals artwork, all content is uploaded from other sites automatically or from users, no large website can entirely remove every single image right away, we do have responsibility to take down works uploaded without permission when reported and we do just that absolutely.

It's like if someone donates a book to a library or second hand book store, do you accuse the library/store of stealing because they haven't the time to ask every artist if it is OK to archive their work? no of course not that is not feasible or reasonable.
Kielan
01/22/20 03:57PM
12. Why you ban me? I can get around it you know! I didn't do nuttin'!

- You only get banned usually (NOT ALWAYS DON'T EXPECT A WARNING) after being given warnings about what you are doing wrong, usually something against the sites terms of service, ten very carefully to warnings, you will get banned if you ignore them, if people do what they want, the site is chaos and a mess, the terms are there to prevent that.

All accounts are permanently de-activated and all comments removed in one click easily. The account is lost for good, this is the consequence, the banned can return one day, but when they do, hopefully they wont repeat the same reason they got banned for. Those wishing to appeal know you only can if you have proof it was a mistake, mistakes do happen and we are greatful to hear of mistakes on bans at [email protected] only.
Kielan
01/22/20 03:58PM
13. I see something that is against the terms of service, why do you allow it?


Just because something 'against the ToS' remains on this site and is not removed right away, does not mean it is 'allowed' it means it has not been discovered yet.

Please remember this in all things in life as this is a dangerous argument to justify doing things against the rules, because if you think something is allowed because it has not been stopped yet... you will end up getting banned from places, or worse become a criminal by thinking it's alright to break the law since others are doing it.

For example it's like thinking it's alright to steal because a cop didn't catch you right away, or the cop didn't catch the other thief right away... understand most get caught and have to endure the consequences, better not to do it.

Images get missed due to the time of day, how many eyeballs are watching out for tos violating images, human error, etc etc.

There are many reasons why stuff gets missed.

TL:DR
Hopefully after reading this you will know for all time:

"Just because something is against the terms of service has not been removed yet, does not automatically mean it is 'allowed'." same with any rules.

It may have been missed! (or maybe it's not against the ToS and you think it is) and it's an awesome thing for you guys to report it, using the flag for deletion link when you view an image or next to someones comment, giving a good reason there and reporting the image/comment, it helps so much and we really appreciate it! bare in mind if it doesn't get removed after reporting, an has decided it's not in violation of the terms and can stay.

You have every right to ask me via mail why it wasn't removed, but please refer to a specific image/comment and not be massively vague and ask 'why are images in general are not getting removed??', we need to know what you are referring to. Thanks!

13a. Why don't you remove all images that are against the terms of service, from a users account who has had some removed?

-Maybe they are not against the terms of service, maybe we missed them, maybe we didn't have time to get to them, this is why we have report image.
Kielan
01/22/20 03:58PM
14. What's the difference between Rule34.xxx and rule34.paheal?

Different owners/Site Software (though looks the similar).
Different tagging system, Rule34.xxx allows many more tags to make images easier to find.
Paheal has rules: rule34.paheal/wiki/rules
Rule34.xxx has terms of service: rule34.xxx/index.php?page=forum&s=view&id=4163
There are too many differences to say really, the best way is to compare the two yourself and decide for yourself :)
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