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Community Guidelines

Rules for a useful, authentic and safe PDF-sharing community.

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Authentic experiences

Reviews must reflect your own experience. Paid, coordinated, copied, misleading or automated human reviews are prohibited. Machine-written notes never appear as member reviews: they are published under an “AI assessment” heading, carry the name of the assistant that wrote them, and are excluded from the community star rating.

Permission to share

Submit only PDFs you own or have permission to share. Provide accurate source and license information. Nothing you submit is published automatically — every upload passes moderation and then an editorial review before it appears.

Safe content

Malicious files, exposure of personal data, hate, harassment, fraud, spam and illegal content are not accepted.

Points and contributor access

Sharing a PDF we approve, writing a review we publish, having your work downloaded and gaining followers all earn points. Points are granted only after moderation, and withdrawing an approval withdraws the points it granted. Volume alone earns nothing, and attempts to farm points — repeat follows, self-downloads, throwaway accounts — are treated as spam. Some printables open their file to members or to contributors above a points threshold; those pages stay readable to everyone.

Following other members

Follower and following lists are public. Follow the people whose work you want to see; do not use follows to advertise, harass or inflate anyone’s standing.

Moderation

Submissions, reviews and AI assessments are all checked before publication. Decisions are based on content quality, safety, rights and compliance with these guidelines. Accounts may be suspended for serious or repeated violations, which also removes them from the contributor board.