Pokémon Amino Guidelines

Images that can be traced back to an 18+ source, regardless of if the image itself is not explicit. This would include out-of-context panels or screenshots from comics, videos, etc. and also images that come from primarily NSFW artist.

Images that have NSFW aspects cropped out. This means implicit NSFW, like expressions, or poses. Cropping these elements out in any way, shape, or form does not make it acceptable and will still be hidden.

Images that sexualize Pokémon or animals, including overly pronounced humanoid features like breasts, skimpy outfits, emphasized genitals, etc.

Images that sexualize characters that are minors. This also includes excessively revealing clothes, lewd expressions, overly exaggerated physical features, etc.

Images that can be seen as fetish content, even if not explicitly sexual.

Claiming somebody else's art as your own will result in a strike.

Posting AI art or having AI art for profile images that have used other artists' creations without permission is not allowed.

Team Quasont prefers users to ask permission before promoting anything.

Users will receive a warning if they post GIFs or videos anywhere on Amino that can easily cause a seizure or an epileptic event.

Any group of people, be it a clan, group, or any other classification, caught causing a disturbance and breaking guidelines on multiple occasions will be disbanded.

Even if only a few belonging to the clan or group are caught doing the act, every member will be held accountable regardless of whether they were directly involved with the situation or not.

Users should be cautious when joining a group and not stand idly by letting the group break the guidelines.

Team Quasont will revoke official titles given to groups or individuals for their PKA contributions without notice if their account does not publish relevant blogs for 2 consecutive months or more.

Interacting with or reaching out to an account that has been hidden for sexual content is not allowed.

Users will be banned if they are under the age of 13.

Racially inappropriate or hateful posts or comments.

Team Quasont won't tolerate derogatory, pejorative, or disparaging terms referring to someone's mental or physical ability, gender, sexuality, or race.

Users who attack or make fun of people based on physical appearance, weight, race, colour, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or disability.

Discriminating against others, in general, goes against the community guidelines.

Some of the terms that are not allowed, especially if they are directed towards a specific person or group:

N-slur of any abbreviation or spelling, or any other racial slurs

F-slur of any abbreviation or spelling

R-slur of any abbreviation or spelling

The following terms are allowed in specific contexts, except if they are targeted against a user or a group of people:

Whore, slut, hoe, thot

Any term or pejorative Team Quasont deems derogatory. Just because a term isn't listed doesn't mean users get to say it, even about themselves. Mod action will be based on context of its use and how explicit the slur is (ex: a strike for the use of the n-slur)

Harassing, threatening, impersonating, or intimidating other users.

These may warrant strikes or even a ban. Team Quasont will investigate reports of impersonation to find the original user and get confirmation of their account.

Impersonating a curator, leader, or Team Amino will lead to a ban.

Using a member of Team Quasont's name in an attempt to intimidate other users or to coerce other users is not allowed.

Claiming a friendship with a mod team member to threaten, harass, or intimidate others is not allowed.

Pretending to be a member of a PKA official committee, such as the Welcoming Committee, Event Committee, Newsletter Committee, or the Team Quasont account is not allowed. Doing so will result in a mod action.

Stealing messages made by an official PKA team is not allowed, such as the Welcoming Committee. Doing so will result in a mod action.

Threatening to hack a user's IP address is not allowed and will result in a mod action.

Do not tell people to kill themselves or cause self-harm, not even as a joke. Telling someone 'kys' will also result in a mod action.

Do not make jokes about sexual assault. Making insensitive comments on it is also not allowed. This will result in a mod action.

Posting with the sole intent of having another user flagged or banned.

An intentional false report to a curator or a leader will result in a mod action.

"Flag this user" comments, posts, or messages will result in a mod action.

Posting a blog about another user without their permission.

Get the user's consent first and make it very clear what will be in the blog. This also includes reposts and comics about users.

Does not include 'thank you' posts or birthday blogs.

Team Quasont suggests navigating away from that content's source or from using the block feature if a user comes across content or another users that offends it. If the offensive content also violates the guidelines, flag it under 'off-topic.'

All posts and comments must be appropriate (nothing explicit, relating to hard drugs, etc.)

All posts and comments must be respectful (no slurs/derogatory terms, etc.). Posts that encourage mass hate will be disabled

Spamming is not allowed (what we consider spam:   5+ in a row, 10+ daily)

Advertisements that are not for a separate Amino community or a specific group are not allowed

Posts made for the sole purpose of sharing account information on outside apps, such as Twitter, Instagram, or Discord are not allowed. Users may put that information in their bio

Posts created for attention; for example,   "Am I popular/pretty?" or "I'm leaving because no one likes me!"

Titles of posts are allowed to be non-English, however, the content must be in English

Triggering subjects are not allowed unless properly documented with a trigger warning

Pieces of art with progress shots or some other form of proof

Edits with progress shots and credit where appropriate

Writing pieces with credit where appropriate

Asking for Pokémon-specific roleplaying

Discussions relating to the Pokémon franchise or the community

Cosplays and convention photos

Good morning/good evening/good night blogs

Looking for friends/someone PM me blogs

Looking to roleplay blogs

Must be Pokémon-related. No off-topic RP requests

Introduction/get to know me posts

Screenshot compilations of friends' messages

They need to be appropriate and they need to be from friends, not stranger expose posts

You must have permission from your friends, but you don't need to provide evidence

If a user whose messages are posted contacts us for removal, we will disable the blog

Anime/friend memes

No off-topic memes

Rate my ____ (stickers, followers, profile)

Community questions

Such as about your experiences, your time on Amino, friends

Pokémon-related art/sketches

Drawing OCs is allowed

Walls and bios are allowed BUT users can only have ONE of each (two in total)

Aesthetic wikis are allowed as long as they have anime content inside, such as quotes/anime lists

Screenshot compilations of friends' messages

They need to be appropriate and they need to be from friends, not stranger expose posts

You must have permission from your friends, but you don't need to provide evidence

If a user whose messages are posted contacts us for removal, we will disable the wiki

Blogs with less than three sentences (not including the title)

General questions (ex. what's your zodiac sign, age, sexuality, etc...)

No music recommendations

No off-topic poems, quotes, or song lyrics

The usual posts that break the guidelines (inappropriate, harassment, etc.)

Quizzes must be relevant to the community.

Quizzes about users, be it for others or themselves, will not be permitted and thus disabled.

This includes 'Do you know my favorite character from...' quizzes.

Quizzes purposely choosing the wrong answers will be disabled.

If a user posts a mostly relevant quiz containing irrelevant questions or questions such as 'How many times did you take this quiz?', Team Quasont will disable it until the questions are editted.

Please make sure quizzes have objective answers and are not opinion-based. For example, 'Which one of these characters is the best?'

Quizzes must be in English.

Pictures, GIFs, videos, and links to sites that are sexually explicit or NSFW gore images will lead to a permanent ban. Asking users to Google specific terms instead of linking outright will be treated similarly.

Sexually explicit language is not allowed, even in song lyrics.

Ahegao and overly sexualized facial expressions are not allowed.

Dirty/inappropriate jokes and memes are not allowed.

Hentai is not allowed, and Team Quasont will ban users for such content. Users who posted cropped/blurred hentai or cropped sex scenes/sexual acts will receive a strike.

Revealing nipple outlines or genital outlines is not allowed.

Characters wearing an outfit that barely covers their private parts is not allowed.

A character with an exaggerated body part or sweat steam for sexual fetish purposes is not allowed.

Character covered in bodily fluids is not allowed.

Loli/Shota character posing in an inappropriate way is not allowed.

Images with inappropriate body language/acts or implications are not allowed.

Inappropriate texts in profile images or backgrounds are not allowed.

Sex RP, 18+ RP, and Dirty or Erotic RP (DRP/ERP) are not allowed. This is not allowed in private messages (PMs) or private Group Chats (GCs). RP is fine as long as it is appropriate. Otherwise, it will lead to mod action.

Any inappropriate DMs are not allowed.

To properly comply with the App Stores, Team Quasont is unable to allow nudity of any kind on the app, even if partially censored or artistic in nature.

If another user violates these guidelines, Team Quasont encourages users to inform a moderator directly and flag the content as 'off-topic.' Users make up the PKA community, and PKA needs users' help to keep it alive and well.

Contacting users, messaging them, or commenting on their wall or content and asking for Amino Coins counts as spam, which will result in a strike.

Any blog or wiki made just to ask for coins will get disabled.

Coin gambling posts and public chats are also prohibited.

Lottery-related blogs, if the users have to pay to participate are prohibited.

Do not make coin banks, wallets, jars, or anything of the sort.

Do not ask people directly for coins.

Do not make posts asking for coins.

Do not ask for coin 'donations.'

Do not ask for real money.

Accepting coins as commission payments for services such as edits, art, and proofreading is acceptable. Commission payments with real money are allowed as long as the transaction happens outside of the Amino app.

Selling or buying Amino accounts for coins/real money is not allowed.

PKA encourages users to produce and post their own content, regardless of their art, photography, or writing skills.

Users can't take another user's work without the owner's consent and, if reported, will result in a strike.

Similar styles do not count.

Taking someone else's edit, be it for a profile picture or a blog cover, without permission is not allowed.

Taking someone else's bio without permission is not allowed.

If a user copies a blog or parts of it from another source, please source the material.

Place the link to the source inside the blog.

Failure to source, when asked, will result in a warning and then a strike if continued.

Users claiming content as their own when it's not will lead to Team Quasont removing the content without prior notice, and the user will receive a strike.

Copying from another Amino user in this Amino or otherwise will also result in content removal and a strike.

Stealing art, edits, posts, etc. is not okay. PKA does not accept plagiarism and theft.

Users should flag posts under 'off-topic' or message a moderator in any case of art theft, but only if there is proof and the user is directly or indirectly claiming it as theirs. If the art owner has requested its removal, please point Team Quasont to said request in the report message.

Posts that promote piracy/use of apps that steal or redistribute copyrighted content.

Not only are they not allowed on PKA, but it also violates sections 22.3 and 22.4 of the Appstore terms.

Therefore, in addition to the previous clause, posts containing manga chapters in their entirety, or even most of the pages, will be treated as illegal and disabled.

When making a chat, Team Quasont recommends saving a direct link to the chat, so if it gets disabled, it will make it much easier for Team Quasont to determine why it was disabled and possibly re-enable it.

Off-topic titles are allowed.

Covers are allowed to be aesthetic and do not need to be Pokémon-related.

Public chat conversations must be appropriate and stay within the Community Guidelines.

For best results, have an appropriate English title, detailed description, and clear rules for every public chat.

Chats simply saying "I am bored" or chats that have a lacking description are likely to be disabled.

The owner of a public chat is responsible for the content of the chat and its conversation.

Hosts and co-host(s) monitor the discussion and keep it within the Guidelines.

Public chat titles and descriptions must be in English.

Users must also speak and type in English in public chats.

Users can speak any language in PMs or private group chats.

Roleplays that use terms to specify sexual orientation in their description (e.g., straight RP, gay RP, yaoi/yuri RP) are not allowed.

These types of RPs historically lead to sexual themes that are not appropriate for this community.

Discussion of torture, mating, 'force-mating,' slave/master, abuse, or other such topics is not allowed.

Public chats also must not single out users.

'Only Chats' are not allowed, such as Japanese People Only, Girls Only, and No Boys.

Chat rules cannot disallow users from joining or allow discrimination on things such as level, race, sex, orientation, or gender.

Hosts are allowed to remove other users from their chats for an assortment of reasons.

Some examples would be the user sending inappropriate messages, being mean to others, or not following the host's chat rules or PKA's Community Guidelines.

Chat hosts and co-hosts cannot remove users to troll them, such as repeatedly inviting a user in and kicking them as soon as they join or toying with users.

Chat hosts and co-hosts cannot remove users discriminately, such as for race, sex, gender, or orientation. If the chat rules ask for certain topics to not be spoke about, they are free to remove people who do not follow said rules.

Users may not make invite-only or otherwise exclusive chats in the public chat section.

Users may use private group chats to restrict who joins their conversation.

Posting inappropriate, sexual, or graphic content in public chats or private group chats, or encouraging the posting of such content, may lead to immediate account termination.

This also includes having images attached to custom chat bubbles that are violent or sexually explicit.

All chat messages must be appropriate and follow the guidelines as well.

This applies to public chats and private group chats.

Public chats aren't for personal agendas.

This includes chats created to share accounts such as Instagram, Snapchat, or Facebook.

Do not post Discord server links in chat descriptions, announcements, or in the chat itself.

Recruitment for groups is not allowed. Otherwise, the recruitment should be a blog if the group is valid and within guidelines.

Please do not use public chats for advertising other Aminos or blogs.

If users are seen link-dropping in chats or comments, this is considered spam and can result in a mod action. This also ties in with advertising off-app accounts.

Roleplay request posts are permitted. Please make sure to follow Community Guidelines in regards to blogs.

Some resources to keep in mind for searching for roleplays is the PKA Roleplay Portal blog or the PKA Roleplay Hub chatroom.

Requesting roleplay with sexually explicit or hidden accounts is not permitted.

You may NOT start a roleplay chat with the following topics:

War

18+ Romance

Sleepover

Apocalypse

Pokémon x Human RP

Pokéhuman RPs are allowed under specific context.

ex: Bill's Pokémon teleportation experiments, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon OCs, gijinkas, etc.

They will not be allowed if created by having Pokémon and human parents.

Roleplay bios are allowed as long as they are descriptive in nature and follow all other Community Guidelines.

Roleplay-specific chatrooms must be unique in category. However, if a chat of certain category exceeds the 500 member limit, similar chat may be made to accommodate the demand.

Roleplay-specific chatrooms must include a detailed description of the plot.

They must also specify what roles are open, should they be applicable.

With the creation of the official Pokémon Amino Discord server, all punishments will carry over across platforms.

If you receive a warning on Amino, you will receive a one-hour timeout on Discord.

If you receive a strike on Amino, you will receive a 24-hour timeout on Discord.

If you are banned on Amino, you will be banned on Discord.

Any reports of bad behavior on a server directly created from a PKA chatroom as a back-up in the case of an Amino outage will be treated the same.

Users need to keep their full name, address, phone numbers, online account info, and credit card information secret to avoid scams, bullying, or other dangers.

Do not click suspicious links. Flag them 'off-topic' for Team Quasont to investigate.

Never meet up with people on the internet.

Do not engage in sexual activities, make sexual proposals, or respond to them. Report any sexual activities or proposals immediately and block the user.

The leaders may ban users that make it unsafe for others to be in PKA by sharing other users' faces, threatening to find other users, sharing user locations, or sharing users' other social media accounts.

The mod team only acts on reports with screenshot proof or with multiple perspectives if it's something that is unable to be tracked (such as Voice Chat drama). We would prefer screenshots not to be cropped or edited in any way to verify its authenticity.

Reports of events taking place off Amino will not be accepted, even with screenshot evidence. It is out of our jurisdiction.

This does not include any attempts of luring users off Amino to evade the guidelines (scams, 18+ RP, etc.) and will result in a mod action.

Flagging an account is an effective way for mods to see reports, but excludes a lot of crucial information/proof unless the flag is for a profile hide (inappropriate profile images, bio, and/or wall comments) or to disable posts.

Flagging an account or blog/wiki only gives the mod team the option to hide/disable.

For reports on a user for a message or series of messages, flagging will initially show the mod team some information, but we may have to ask for more context and screenshots at a later time.

If you would still prefer to flag a message, please flag your report under "off-topic" or "bullying" and take screenshots.

Ideally, reports to the mod team are:

Concise

Include all relevant profile names and links

Include relevant screenshots and context if available

Curators can hide profiles and blogs, but they cannot give out warnings, strikes, or bans.

Leaders are capable of doing everything mentioned above.

If a user is hidden, there might be a guideline violation with the username, bio, profile picture, gallery, or background.

Team Quasont will always message hidden profiles to let them know why.

After being hidden, users will be given 24 hours to change their profile before receiving a warning. If the user hasn't fixed the violation 48 hours after that warning, they will be banned.

Users may and are encouraged to contact anyone from the mod team if they have any questions but to do so in a respectful manner. Team Quasont is not obligated to respond to users who are aggressive, vulgar, or rude.

A warning is a message from a leader informing a user they are violating a guideline. Please make sure to read the mod message as it explains the reason for the mod action.

If a user repeats the violation despite the warning, they will receive a strike.

Strikes are given if a user refuses to listen to the warning they were given. However, they are many cases where users will automatically get a strike without a warning, such as telling users to kill themselves or sending high-intensity GIFs that could cause an epileptic event.

Strikes prevent users from typing in chats, commenting, or posting content.

Each strike lasts 24 hours.

Three leader or Team Amino strikes will lead to a ban.

Leaders can ban users immediately for things such as posting explicit content, being underage (under 13), creating a troll account, or persistent advertising.

Leaders can ban for various reasons that they see fit for the safety of users and the community. Such reasons vary from potential bot accounts, trolling, threatening to kill other members, and so on.

Can users appeal their ban?

Of course, but the leaders do not ban users or give mod action without a reason, so the account will not return in most cases.

If you would like to appeal your ban, please fill out our Ban Appeal Form.

If Team Amino bans a user, they can appeal to Team Amino directly via their Support Form.

Can users return on an alternate account?

Yes in most cases, but it must be 30 days after their initial ban.

BOS (ban on sight) users are those that are not allowed to make a new account.

Examples of actions that would place a user on the BOS list are pedophilia, making multiple accounts to troll, NSFW conduct, etc.

Hate speech. Amino is a place to build communities, not to break them down. Content that attacks or vilifies people based on things like race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender presentation and sexual orientation), or disability is not allowed. Some examples include:

Using slurs or epithets, attacking profanity, or expressing hatred toward a group of people

Holocaust denial, glorifying the suffering of a group of people, expressing supremacism, or alt-right, etc.

Harassment and bullying. Making others feel unsafe is not allowed. Some examples include:

Doxxing (sharing personal information), or publishing content with the intent to embarrass or harm another person

Telling someone to hurt themselves or to commit suicide

Creating fake accounts to impersonate another person and harass them or disrupt their use of Amino, etc

Threats, violent, or dangerous behavior. Safety is paramount on Amino. The following types of threats are prohibited and may also result in Amino reporting you to law enforcement or emergency officials:

Terrorism or mass violence

Physical harm or murder

Hacking or threatening to SWAT Amino or others

Self-harm or suicide

Blackmail, etc.

Making inappropriate or unwanted requests for personal information or photos. Context matters here but, generally speaking, asking for other’s contact information or for them to send you photos is prohibited.

Super annoying, off-topic messages

Promoting yourself, your Amino, or anything else about you in a repetitive or impersonal manner

Automated posting, messages, comments...or automated anything

Making the same post, message, or comment over and over and over and over and over again (really, once is enough)

Nudity is not allowed. We use the 50/50 rule.

If over 50% of sexual body parts are exposed, the content is not allowed.

Explicit sexual content is not allowed.

Implicit sexual content is not allowed. Some examples of this include:

Undressing

Simulating sexual acts

Overly sexual facial expressions

Cuddling nude, etc.

Art depicting nudity, or over 50% of sexual body parts, is allowed as long as:

The medium is a painting, drawing, sculpture, or similar (ex: not a photograph or video of real people)

It’s not intended to arouse

Content that encourages or celebrates sexual violence, exploitation, prostitution, or sex trade is prohibited.

Text-based sexual content is prohibited in any public areas—like public chats, posts, or wikis—of Communities that are Open or Approval-Required. Some communities have extra rules on this subject, so be sure to check with your community’s leaders if you are unsure of what’s allowed.

Certain Private communities are allowed to discuss sexual themes and related topics. These communities still can’t have any inappropriate sexual imagery. And, obviously, the rest of these guidelines apply to them, too.

Protecting Teenagers:

People under the age of 18 on Amino have to follow more strict policies when it comes to sexual content.

We remove all sexually suggestive content depicting people under 18, even if it was unintentionally suggestive, so as to protect teens from having their content used in an inappropriate or unsafe manner by others. Examples of the type of content that teens cannot post include:

Dancing in a sexual manner

Making sexual facial expressions or gestures

Appearing in underwear, wearing swimsuits indoors, or dressing in overly-revealing clothing

Posting sexual text or dialogue along with imagery of teenagers

Any behavior or content that sexualizes minors is strictly prohibited and may result in Amino reporting you to law enforcement agencies.

If it depicts actual torture, pain, dismemberment, or violence involving real people or animals

If it invokes a feeling of shock, sickness, or pain in the viewer

If it depicts bodily fluids

If the content is abnormally grotesque or exaggerated

If it is historical or famous, etc.

Content depicting actual illegal, unsafe, or criminal activity is not allowed on Amino. Some examples of this include:

Anything that could harm minors

Dangerous activity involving regulated goods or services (ex: alcohol, drugs, weapons etc)

Violent crimes or terrorism

Self-harm or harm to others, etc.

Please note that roleplay, TV shows and media, or other fictional portrayals of the above are not generally considered a violation of these guidelines.

It is prohibited to offer raffles, sweepstakes, games of chance or merit, or the opportunity to gamble, if you require users to pay in order to potentially win a prize. You are welcome to offer prizes as long as people don’t have to pay to enter to win.

For example, ‘give props for a chance to win’ is not allowed, but stating ‘add a comment for the chance to win’ is.

Using coins to purchase goods is allowed on Amino; please see our Coin Policies for additional information.

The sale of coins is prohibited.