-1: Be kind.

[deep breath in]

BE FUCKING NICE TO PEOPLE

HITBOX DIMENSION is a space bound by weird and arbitrary special interests—put another way, it’s not that serious, and almost nothing in this space is worth getting into fights over.

Be kind, helpful, and actively considerate—especially if you disagree with someone.

0: Assume good faith.

People are imprecise, imperfect, and clumsy—even when they mean well, mistakes happen.

Offer others as much good faith as you can; invite their perspective, steelman their arguments, de-escalate early, and generally treat everyone like they’re trying their hardest to be cool.

However, this almost always comes second to rule -1.

If you establish a pattern of being unkind or inconsiderate, you are not owed a place here.

1: No inflammatory language.

Slurs, hate speech, all the usual. If it’s as strong as “trap” or “retard”, it probably doesn’t belong here. Be considerate; avoid langauge that’s likely to cause problems.

2: No overtly sexual or disturbing content.

Spoiler-tag stuff that has a good chance of being gross or upsetting to your average person. For borderline stuff, consider your context, what it brings to conversation, and what other people might take away from it—does your post make the space better?

3: Don’t be disruptive.

Don’t flood, post inflammatory garbage, repeatedly recenter conversation around yourself, or spread single thoughts over twenty one-word messages. Don’t use randoms on the Internet as a substitute for law enforcement, psychiatric treatment, or legal counsel.

(Oh, and conversational drift happens—don’t worry about using “the wrong channel” unless you’re crowding out on-topic discussion. In that case, consider moving.)

4: No unmarked spoilers for recent releases.

Use your best judgement on “has it been long enough since release”, it depends on context—but when in doubt, it’s easy to tag something or start a thread. (Box art, official trailers, and opening-act plot details are not spoilers, they’re good-natured hype and speculation.)

5: Please, please follow Discord ToS.

I am required to list this somewhere so I don’t get banned for pinning MEGA links to arcade rips. (This is an ironclad strategy)

These rules are not a contract—they’re a reflection of a culture. If something looks like a loophole, it’s not.

If you feel someone’s violated any of these, or is misbehaving in some way I haven’t considered, @Paint-Eaters International in public, or contact me via DM in private.