Community Guidelines ==================== Tillyard. Version 1.1. In effect from October 21, 2026. Fingerprint of this text (SHA-256): 0742d1b2aca4be85b656d6e9f2dfb0c3fbdb31554c3828dd5c411dc903fd4d61 This version: https://tillyard.org/policies/community-guidelines/v/1.1 Tillyard is a website where college students work alongside each other, write, build things and keep an honest record of what they did. These guidelines say how we expect members to behave while they do that. Each rule has examples, and section 4 goes through the platform place by place. - Tillyard is for adults. You must be 18 or older and eligible under the Terms of Use. Nobody under 18 may be here, for any reason. - Treat other members as colleagues you will meet again. No harassment, hate, threats or sexual content, and no using Tillyard to pursue anyone romantically, here or carried on from here. - Be who you say you are, and tell the truth in anything that reaches the Record. A confirmation is your word that you saw something. Give it only when you did. - Do your own work. Say what help you had, including help from AI tools. Credit what you borrowed. - Do not game the place. No agreeing to score each other well, no traded or invented confirmations, no idling at a table to collect visits, no second accounts. - Do not spam or sell. Do not recruit members into unpaid work for a business, and do not post openings for paid work. If a paid role comes up in conversation, say who pays and how much. No multi-level schemes. No selling coursework or writing services. - Keep other people's private details private, and never press anyone to move to another app, a call or a meeting. - You can block, mute and report anywhere. A person, not software, decides every notice, 24-hour mute, suspension and removal for conduct. Software may hold an item, stop your table chat for one visit, or pause an account while a person looks, including a pause of up to 24 hours when activity looks like abuse; that pause ends by itself unless a person extends it, and it is not a finding. One closure happens by rule: an age re-check answered "under 18" or "high-school student", or left unanswered. - When a rule is broken we may give a notice (the formal warning), mute for 24 hours, close a feature to you for a time, suspend for 7 days or remove an account, and withdraw records. You can ask for one appeal. - If someone is in danger right now, call 911. If you are thinking about suicide or are in crisis, call or text 988. If this summary and the full text below ever differ, the full text governs. Quick answers ============= The questions members ask most, each with a short answer and the section that gives the rule in full. The short answer is a signpost. The section governs. Common "can I do this?" questions, with a short answer and the section to read. Question | Short answer | Section --------------------------------- Can I flirt or ask someone out? | No. Tillyard is not for pursuing anyone romantically, welcome or not. | 3.4 Can I give someone my number, handle or email address? | Yes, your own, to a member you are connected with, in Notes, if you choose to. | 3.17 Can I ask for a number or handle? | Once, never as an opener, and silence means no. | 3.17 Can I use an AI tool on my paper? | For wording, finding sources and checking, yes, if you declare it. Not to write your analysis. | 3.10 Can I post an opening for paid work? | No. A paid role may come up in conversation if you say who pays and how much. | 3.14 Can I look for teammates or a co-founder? | Yes, as co-owners, and say it is unpaid. | 3.14, 4.12 Can I promote my project, club or survey? | One mention where it fits. | 3.13 Can I ask for money or share a payment link? | No. | 3.13 Can I help with graded coursework? | Explain and comment, yes. Write it, no. | 3.9 Can I confirm a friend's work? | Only what you saw yourself. | 3.8 Can I tell people which paper is mine? | No, not while it is being read or scored. | 3.12 Can I repost a conversation? | Not to embarrass anyone. Yes in a report or to get advice. | 3.6 Can I have a second account? | No. | 2.3, 3.7 Someone is bothering me. What do I do? | Block, mute, report. | 6 Someone may be in danger right now. | Call 911. In a crisis, call or text 988. | 3.5, 6.3 What happens if I break a rule? | Usually a notice first, then a 24-hour mute, a 7-day suspension, and removal. Serious conduct can go straight to removal. | 7.2 Common questions, and where the answer is written is the same kind of index for every one of our documents. 1. About these guidelines ========================= 1.1 What this document is ------------------------- These guidelines are the conduct rules for Tillyard. They cover how members treat each other and how honest they are in what they write, submit, confirm and record. They are part of the agreement you accept when you join, alongside the Terms of Use. 1.2 Who they apply to --------------------- They apply to: - every member, which means every person with an account, in every part of the platform; - anyone who is not a member but writes something to us or through us, for example an outside confirmer who confirms a service record, a person who files a report, a removal request or a dispute, or someone who sends an inquiry about a larger tip or a sponsorship; - members acting as a host of a table, as a reader, as an entrant in a round, as an officer of an organization or as part of a project team. Taking on one of these does not change the rules that apply to you. It adds a few, which are set out where they belong. Staff are bound by their own written terms, which are stricter than these. You can expect staff to treat you by the standards in section 3. 1.3 How these guidelines fit with our other documents ----------------------------------------------------- - The Terms of Use are the contract. They say who may join, what you own, what we may do and how disputes are handled. - The Acceptable Use Policy covers the technical side: automation, scraping, account sharing, limits and security. - The Messaging and Monitoring Notice says what is screened, logged and readable by staff when you write here. - The Privacy Notice says what personal information we hold and what we do with it. - The Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy sets out the steps, time limits and appeal process that section 7 of this document only outlines. - Other documents cover single subjects: the Child Safety Policy, the AI-Use Policy, the Editorial Policy of Tillyard Research, the Reader Guidelines, the Hosting Terms and Disclosure Policy, the Author Agreement and Licence, the Projects and Collaboration Terms and the Standard Team Agreement, the official rules published with each round (drawn from the Rounds Official Rules Template), the Organizations Terms, the Service and Volunteering Terms, the Copyright Policy, the Trademark and Brand Use Policy, the Intimate-Image Removal Policy, the Disputes and Corrections Policy, and The Record and Verification Policy. Section 1.4 of the Terms of Use lists every document. Where two documents cover the same point, the more specific one governs. For example, the AI-Use Policy governs AI help with a paper, the published rules of a round govern scoring in that round, and the Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy governs how an appeal is run. Where nothing more specific exists, these guidelines apply. Section 37.5 of the Terms of Use sets the order among all our documents, including the sections of those terms that prevail over every other document. 1.4 Words we use ---------------- Words that have one meaning in every one of our documents, such as member, visitor, staff, the editor, record item, hold, case and tip, are defined in Definitions. The words below are added for this document's own subject, or repeated from Definitions for convenience. If a repeated meaning ever differs, Definitions governs the meaning of the word. - We, us and our mean Tillyard, which operates the platform. - The platform means the website at tillyard.org and everything it offers. - A member is a person who holds an account. - Staff means the owner and any person who works for us under a paid, written contract and holds a staff account. At present the owner is the only member of staff. Members are never staff, and no member is given any power over another member's content or account, whatever title or history that member has. - The editor means the staff member who decides whether a paper is published and who signs titles. At present that is the president. - Host means a member who opens a table or runs a scheduled table. A host is a member like any other. - Content means anything you write, choose or set on the platform: messages, order lines, table labels, answers, profile text, papers, readings, entries, confirmations, reports and so on. - Connected describes two members who have each taken a step toward the other, so that they can write to each other in Notes. Section 4.4 explains how that happens. - The Record means the set of pages that state what a member did and who confirmed it. A Record item is one entry on it. - Confirmation means a statement by someone other than the member that they saw, read or took part in what a Record item describes. - Outside confirmer means a person who is not a member and who confirms a claim from their own organization's email address. - Report means telling us, through a report control or a form, about content or conduct you think breaks these guidelines or the law. - A hold hides an item from everyone except its author while a person looks at it. A hold deletes nothing, adds no strike and is not a finding that a rule was broken. - Case means our file on a report, a hold, a dispute or a removal request. Words from around Tillyard, used in section 3 before section 4 explains each place: - A pot is one shared, timed stretch of work at a table, followed by a break. - A stamp is a mark on your stamp card for a pot you finished. A postmark shows the college of someone you finished a pot with. Both are keepsakes for showing up. Nobody reviewed anything to give them. - A nod is a wordless signal of interest from one member to another. Two nods in opposite directions connect the two members. - A Fifteen is a fifteen-minute text conversation between two members that starts only if both press start. The window seats are the two places in a room where a Fifteen is offered. - A card trade is each of two people privately choosing, after a Fifteen, to exchange cards. It happens only if both choose it, and it connects them. - A chair card is a short card a member can leave on a chair at their own table, saying what they are working on or looking for. A help-wanted card is the same idea for a student project. - Turning the sign is what the first order of an evening does: it opens the shop for that evening. The Keyholder label goes to whoever placed that order. It is an automatic label for one evening and carries no role or title. - A broadcast to a thread is a message sent to everyone in a group thread at once. 1.5 How we read these rules --------------------------- Examples are illustrations. A list that begins "not all right" shows the kind of thing a rule is about. Something can break a rule without appearing in a list, and finding a gap between two examples does not make conduct acceptable. Context counts. When we look at something we consider what was said, where, to whom, what had gone on between the people before, and what effect it had. The same sentence can be scholarship in a paper and an attack at a table. Hard subjects are welcome as subjects. Students here write and talk about violence, hate movements, sexual health, suicide, crime and war, because those are things people study. Analysis, reporting and honest personal experience are fine. Aiming the same material at a person, or presenting it to shock, is not. Quoting is allowed within limits. If a paper needs to quote an offensive source to analyze it, quote only what the analysis needs and make clear that it is a quotation. Intent and effect both matter. "I was joking" does not undo a threat or a slur. An honest mistake that is corrected quickly is treated differently from a pattern. Disagreement is not a violation. Criticizing ideas, arguments, institutions, public figures, a paper's method or Tillyard itself is allowed. We do not pick sides in arguments about ideas. We do act when the argument turns on a person. These rules sit beside the law and your college's rules. They do not replace either. Something can be lawful and still not belong here. 2. Who can be here ================== 2.1 Adults only --------------- Tillyard is for people aged 18 or older. Nobody under 18 may hold an account, use someone else's account or take part in any way. A high-school student who takes college classes is not eligible, even with a college email address. The Terms of Use set out the full eligibility rules, including the sign-up checks. What this means for conduct: - Do not join if you are under 18, and do not give a false date of birth or status to get in. - Do not help anyone under 18 to join, and do not lend them your account. - If you believe a member may be under 18, use the report category for that. We may pause the account while we check. Do not question the person, ask for proof of age or tell others what you suspect. - Do not ask members their age in order to pursue them. Sexual content involving anyone under 18, and any attempt to contact, groom, exploit or solicit a minor, are forbidden everywhere and in every form, including fiction, role-play and "jokes". Where we learn of apparent child sexual exploitation we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as federal law requires, we preserve what the law tells us to preserve, and we do not warn the account concerned. The Child Safety Policy sets out these rules in full and governs on this subject. 2.2 Students at US colleges --------------------------- Membership is for current students and recent graduates of US colleges whose email domains are on our list, as the Terms of Use describe. Some schools are not open yet. If sign-up tells you your school is not open, do not try another route in, such as a second address, a friend's address or a different answer to a question. 2.3 One real person, one account -------------------------------- Each member is one real person using their own name and their own college email address. Section 3.7 has the details. Sharing, selling or lending accounts is covered in the Acceptable Use Policy. 3. Rules that apply everywhere ============================== 3.1 Respect and harassment -------------------------- The standard is simple to state: treat every member as a colleague you will meet again. Most people here are doing something slightly exposed, such as showing unfinished work, asking a basic question or sitting down with strangers. Make that easy for them. All right between members ------------------------- - Disagreeing, firmly, about ideas. - Telling someone exactly what is weak in their paper: "The method section does not say how you chose the twelve interviewees." - Saying no, ending a conversation, leaving a table or a thread, or blocking someone, without giving a reason. - Asking a member once, politely, whether they would like to keep talking in Notes, and accepting whatever happens next. Not all right between members ----------------------------- - Insults, name-calling or belittling aimed at a person: their intelligence, school, major, accent, English, appearance, background, age or prospects. - Contact that continues after someone has shown they do not want it. Saying "stop" is enough. So is standing up from the table, muting, blocking, declining, or simply not answering. One unanswered message is an answer. - Following a person from table to table, or using nods, favor requests, thread invitations, thanks or anything else to keep appearing in front of them. - Organizing others against someone: asking people to message, nod at, report, score down or avoid a member. - Humiliating someone over their work. Criticize the paper, the résumé, the code or the entry, with reasons. Leave the person out of it. - Ranking people by where they study. Nobody here outranks anybody because of the name on their email address. - Deliberately spoiling a table: flooding the chat, derailing every break, starting and cancelling pots to annoy people. - Retaliating against someone because they reported, blocked, declined, disputed a credit, withdrew a confirmation, or gave your work an honest low score. - Pressing someone for a score, a confirmation, a nod, a card trade, their contact details or a favor. - Abuse aimed at hosts, staff or the editor. 3.2 Hate -------- Do not attack, demean or exclude people because of who they are. That covers race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, immigration or citizenship status, religion or belief, caste, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, disability, serious illness, genetic information, military or veteran status, family or economic background, being the first in a family to attend college, and any other characteristic protected by law. All right on hate ----------------- - A table, thread or organization built around a shared interest, identity or experience, open to anyone who sits down respectfully. - Research on hate movements, discrimination or extremism, written with care (see section 1.5). - Talking about your own identity and experience. Not all right on hate --------------------- - Slurs, including "reclaimed" or "ironic" use aimed at someone else, and spellings altered to get past a filter. - Comparing people to animals, diseases or objects; claims that a group is inferior, dangerous or does not belong; calls to exclude or segregate. - Stereotypes used to put someone down, including "positive" ones. - Hate symbols, slogans and coded terms. - Denying or celebrating genocide or mass violence against a group. - Mocking someone's name, accent or English. - Deliberately using the wrong name or pronouns for a person after you have been told the right ones. - Tables, threads, organizations or project teams that turn people away because of a protected characteristic. 3.3 Threats and violence ------------------------ Do not threaten anyone, and do not encourage or celebrate violence. All right on threats and violence --------------------------------- - Writing about violence in research, history, policy or news. - Describing something that happened to you. Not all right on threats and violence ------------------------------------- - Any statement of intent to harm a person, their family, pets or property, whether direct, conditional ("if you do that again...") or dressed as a joke. - Threats to someone's standing rather than their body: threatening to expose private information, to report someone to their college, an employer or immigration authorities, or to damage their reputation, in order to make them do or stop doing something. That is coercion, and where money or sexual favors are demanded it is extortion. - "Jokes" about attacking a campus, a class or an event. We treat them as real. - Encouraging or instructing anyone to commit violence, or praising an attack or an attacker. - Wishing death, injury or assault on someone. - Instructions for making weapons or explosives. If we believe in good faith that there is a danger of death or serious physical injury to any person, we may tell emergency services or law enforcement what they need to respond. See section 7.8 and the Messaging and Monitoring Notice. 3.4 Sexual content and sexual conduct ------------------------------------- This is a place for study and working life. Sexual content does not belong in it, including between adults who would both welcome it. All right on sexual content and conduct --------------------------------------- - Academic writing about sexuality, sexual health, gender or sexual violence, in a paper, handled with care. - Mentioning your own identity or relationship in ordinary conversation. - General health information that is not advice to a particular person (section 3.16). Not all right on sexual content and conduct ------------------------------------------- - Sexually explicit writing, erotica, sexual role-play or sexting, anywhere, including Notes. - Using tables, nods, the Fifteen, favors, Notes or threads to pursue romantic or sexual interest in someone. Tillyard is not a place to look for dates. - Comments on someone's body or looks, sexual jokes and innuendo, questions about someone's sex life, relationships or orientation. - Offering or demanding anything in exchange for sexual or romantic attention: a confirmation, a score, a co-author credit, an introduction, a favor. - Describing, offering, requesting, linking to or threatening to share intimate images of any person, real or AI-generated. - Advertising or soliciting sexual services, paid companionship or adult content. - Anything sexual involving a person under 18 (section 2.1). If an intimate image of you has been shared without your consent, here or anywhere a link from here points, use the removal form described in the Intimate-Image Removal Policy. It needs no account. Federal law gives us a short fixed time to act on a valid request, and that policy explains what a valid request contains. 3.5 Self-harm and suicide ------------------------- If you are in crisis, please reach people who can help now. These services are free and confidential, and the first two answer at any hour. - 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org (https://988lifeline.org/). - Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741741. - The Trevor Project (for LGBTQ+ young people): call 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678. - Veterans: call 988 and press 1. - RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline: call 800-656-4673 or chat at rainn.org (https://www.rainn.org/). - National Domestic Violence Hotline: call 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788. - Your college's counseling center, which usually has a same-day or after-hours line. - If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911. Tillyard is not a crisis service. Nobody watches the rooms for people in distress, and a message you write here may not be seen by staff for some time, or at all. Please do not wait for us. Saying that you are struggling does not break any rule. You can talk here about stress, burnout, grief, failure and bad weeks, and you can write research about mental health. Not all right when someone is struggling ---------------------------------------- - Encouraging anyone to harm or kill themselves, including as an insult. - Describing methods, or sharing instructions or "tips" for self-harm, suicide or disordered eating. - Mocking or dismissing someone who says they are struggling. - Promoting self-harm or eating disorders as a lifestyle or a challenge. If you are worried about another member: - If the danger seems immediate, call 911 and tell them what you know. - Encourage the person toward 988 or their campus counseling center. You do not have to act as a counselor. - Report it under the self-harm category so that staff can see it. When we become aware of content like this we may show the person these resources, send a short private notice, hide content that describes methods, and, where we believe in good faith that someone is in danger of death or serious injury, contact emergency services with the information they need. We cannot promise to see a message in time, and none of this is medical care or counseling. 3.6 Privacy and doxxing ----------------------- Members use their real names here and many are a short walk from each other on campus. That makes privacy a safety matter. Do not share someone else's private information without their clear permission. That includes: - where they live, their room number, their phone number or personal email, their class schedule, where they work or where they are right now; - identity numbers, financial details, immigration status, health or disability information; - their sexual orientation or gender identity, a former name, or anything about their family; - their grades, academic record or any disciplinary matter; - links to private photos or accounts. Also not all right: - Posting private conversations. Do not paste or describe what someone wrote to you in Notes, a thread or at a table into another table, another thread, a public page or another site in order to embarrass them. You may show a conversation to us in a report, to the police, to a lawyer, to your college if you choose to make a complaint, or to someone you trust for advice. - Keeping watch. Do not note when a member is in the shop, where they sit, who they sit with or which evenings they usually come. - Digging. Do not use what you learn here to find a person's other accounts, address or whereabouts when they have not invited that, and do not turn up where they are. - Recording. If a table moves to an outside call, do not record it unless everyone on the call has agreed. Many states require everyone's consent by law. - Unmasking. Do not try to find out who read your paper, who wrote a paper you were given blind, whose résumé you were sent in a swap, or who reported you. Do not reveal it if you know. - False statements about real people. Do not state as fact something untrue and damaging about a member, a professor, an employer, a business or anyone else. - People who are not here. Classmates, professors, interview subjects, survey respondents, patients, clients and customers did not join Tillyard. A paper must not include a private person's personal details unless that person agreed in writing. Change or remove identifying details unless you have that agreement. All right with other people's details ------------------------------------- - Discussing the public conduct of public figures and institutions. - Citing published work by name. - Sharing your own information, with thought. Your order line, a ring you leave and a house-question answer are read by other members. "It is public somewhere" is not a reason to gather a private person's details and post them here. If you are named on a page here and are not a member, or you are a member and a page about you is wrong, you can ask for it to be corrected or removed through the form described in the Disputes and Corrections Policy. 3.7 Impersonation and truthful identity --------------------------------------- Everything on the platform leans on people being who they say they are. - Your name. Use the name you actually go by at your college. It does not have to be your legal name, but it must be yours and it must not be chosen to mislead, to advertise or to offend. - Your school and email. Join with your own college email address. Do not use someone else's, and do not keep an account going through an address that was never yours. - Your status. Describe your degree, year, major and anything else about yourself truthfully. Do not claim degrees, honors, roles or titles you do not hold. - One account. One person, one account. No second accounts, no accounts for a club or a company, no shared logins. Do not pretend to be: - another person, real or invented; - staff, the editor or anyone speaking for Tillyard; - Tillyard's barista, which is a labelled automated script and nothing else; - a host or an organization officer when you are not one; - a company, a recruiter, a professor, a college official or a government body; - an outside confirmer. Do not suggest that Tillyard, your college, an employer or anyone else endorses you, your project or your product when they do not. Parody and "fan" accounts are not allowed, because every account here is a real person under their own name. 3.8 Honesty in records and confirmations ---------------------------------------- The Record is useful to you only while people who read it can believe it. Tillyard says exactly who checked each item and how, and nothing more. We ask the same of you. What you claim. Do not claim work you did not do, a role you did not hold, a date that is wrong or a number that is inflated. Self-reported items. You can add things you did elsewhere. They are marked self-reported, because nobody here checked them. They must still be true. Do not write house wording into them: titles such as Published Author, the brand name, and phrases such as "approved by the editor" are kept for items the editor has approved or signed. For a credential another body issued, say what you hold and who issued it, and where possible give the issuer's own page for checking it. Evidence. When you give a link as evidence: - it must show what you say it shows, and be your own work or clearly mark which part is yours; - use an unchanging reference where the host has one, such as a commit hash, a revision id, a docket number or an archived copy; - do not change what is behind the link after someone has read it. If the link is edited later, the item may be marked as changed since it was read until it is read again; - never present invented documents, histories, data or results. When you confirm something for another person. As a collaborator, an officer, a reader, an attendee or an outside party: - confirm only what you personally saw, read or took part in; - where the form asks what you observed, type what you actually observed, in your own words; - decline when you are not sure. Declining costs you nothing and is never counted against you; - if you have a close tie to the person, such as a partner, relative, roommate or close friend, step aside from reading their work, and do not present yourself as a disinterested party; - never give or withhold a confirmation in exchange for anything; - never confirm your own claim, through a second account, an address you control or a friend acting on your instructions. Outside confirmations. For service and similar records, you share a confirmation link with the person at the organization who actually knows what you did. They open it, read the claim and decide whether to confirm it from their own organizational email address. - Never open and complete your own link. - Never send it to a friend, a relative or an address you control. - Do not tell the person what to say, and do not press them. - They can withdraw a confirmation, and if they tell us they did not give it, it comes off the item. - A confirmation from a free-mail address is shown as coming from an unverified contact. Do not describe it as anything more. When something changes or turns out wrong. Correct it or withdraw it no later than 7 days after learning of it. If a teammate's credit line is wrong, say so through the dispute control so that it can be marked and sorted out. An honest correction is ordinary and is not held against anyone. Describing your Record somewhere else. On a résumé, on LinkedIn, in an interview or in an application, say what the page says. - A paper published here is a student publication. It was read by students at other colleges who chose to read it and approved by the editor, in whatever numbers its page states. Do not call it peer-reviewed, and do not describe Tillyard Research as a scholarly journal. - Nothing here is employment, and being a member, an author, a reader or a host is not an internship. Nobody is an employee, intern or contractor of Tillyard by holding those titles. Only the Tillyard Internship program is an internship, and it has its own written agreement. List these things under Publications, Projects, Leadership and activities or Service, and keep them out of the Experience section. - Tillyard does not issue certificates, grades or anything that says you reached a standard. A Record item states what you did and who confirmed it. - Do not edit an exported record, crop the "what this page does and does not say" section out of a screenshot, or point a link or QR code anywhere except the real page. - Do not go on presenting an item as current after it has been withdrawn. Perks are not credentials. Stamps, a mug on the shelf, postmarks, a founding number and the Keyholder label mark that you showed up. Nobody reviewed anything to award them. Do not present them as achievements that were checked. 3.9 Academic integrity ---------------------- Your college's rules come with you. We are not your college and cannot tell you what it allows. Before you submit something here that began as coursework, a thesis, lab work or work for an employer, check: - whether your instructor, department or college allows it to be published or reused; - who owns it. Work made for a class, a lab or an employer may belong partly or wholly to someone else, which is why every submission form asks. Answer truthfully; - that every co-author agrees and that nobody who contributed has been left off; - that it has not been published elsewhere, or that you say so where the form asks. Do not use Tillyard to cheat at your college. Not all right: - asking someone to do your graded work, or offering to do theirs: essays, problem sets, take-home exams, discussion posts, code, lab reports; - sharing questions or answers from a live exam, quiz or assignment; - buying, selling or trading coursework, or advertising anyone who does; - sitting an assessment, or writing an application, in someone else's name. Studying together is the point of the place. All right: - explaining a concept, or working problems side by side where your course allows collaboration; - quizzing each other; - reading a draft and commenting on it. A favor is reading and marking up. Writing it for them is not a favor we allow. Research conduct. - Do not invent or alter data, sources, quotations, interviews or survey responses. - Describe your method as it really was, and state the limits of what you found. - Keep your notes and data, so that you can answer the editor's questions. - Declare anything a reader would want to know: who paid for the work, whether you have a stake in the result, whether the subject is your own employer, project or organization. - If your research involved people, follow your college's rules for research with human participants, get the consent those rules require and protect identities. Tillyard does not provide ethics review and does not check that you obtained it. Authorship. List everyone who made a real contribution and nobody who did not. Co-authors must agree to be listed and must approve the final text. No honorary authors and no hidden ones. Honesty with the editor. If the editor asks about your paper, answer truthfully and in your own words. 3.10 AI assistance ------------------ The rule has three parts. Your work must be your own. You may use AI tools for help, and you must say so where a form asks. You answer for every sentence, number and source, whoever or whatever suggested it. This section is the outline. For papers in Tillyard Research, the AI-Use Policy has the full rules and governs. Declare it. Every paper asks you to declare what AI help you had and to describe it briefly. The declaration is shown on the paper's public page. Rounds and portfolio tracks state their own rules on AI help, and those rules govern there. All right with AI tools, when declared -------------------------------------- - help with wording, grammar and clarity; - brainstorming, outlining and having a concept explained to you; - finding possible sources, which you then open and read yourself; - help checking code or arithmetic; - translation help. Accessibility tools, such as dictation, spell-check, screen readers and switch access, are not AI help for this purpose and need no declaration. Not all right with AI tools --------------------------- - submitting text an AI tool wrote as your own analysis; - citing a source you have not opened, or one that does not exist or does not say what you claim. Invented references are the most common sign of unexamined AI output and the easiest to check; - AI-generated data, quotations, interviews or survey responses; - having an AI tool write your reading of someone else's paper, your scores in a round or your confirmation of someone's work; - pasting another member's unpublished paper, résumé, entry or messages into an AI tool. It is their work and their information, and many tools keep what they are given; - letting an AI tool hold a conversation for you at a table, in a Fifteen, in Notes or in a thread. People here expect to be talking to you. What Tillyard does. Your paper must be your own work. We look at the drafting record, check sources, and may ask you questions about your paper. We may decline, unpublish or withdraw the record of a paper we cannot confirm is yours. We never act on an AI-detector score. These are editorial judgments. We do not claim that AI-written text will be found, and declaring AI help does not by itself make a paper acceptable: the editor may still decline a paper whose analysis is not the author's own. How decisions are worded. A paper that is not published is "not accepted for publication", with notes against the rubric. We do not publish a reason, and we do not label anyone's work as AI-generated in public. Do not accuse other members. If you think a member's work is not their own, report it privately. Do not say so at a table, in a thread or on another site. You may be wrong, and a public accusation tied to a real name does lasting harm either way. 3.11 Plagiarism and attribution ------------------------------- Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as your own. Here that includes: - copying words without quotation marks and a source; - paraphrasing closely without a source; - translating a source and presenting the result as original; - using someone's data, code, structure or argument without credit; - reusing your own published or submitted work without saying so; - copying another member's paper, portfolio piece, round entry or answer; - passing off AI output as your own analysis (section 3.10). How to stay clear of it: - Put quoted words in quotation marks and cite the source. - Cite the source of any idea, finding, figure or dataset that is not yours and is not common knowledge. - Keep to the license of any code or data you reuse, and say what you changed. - Give a link or a DOI for each source. DOIs may be looked up automatically, and readers may be asked to open a source and type what they found. In a round, your entry must be your own or your team's, and nobody shares answers while the round is open. If you find plagiarism, report it privately with the passages and the source. Do not accuse the author in public (section 3.10 explains why). When we conclude a paper should not stand, we may decline it, unlist it or withdraw its record. Public notices are dated and neutral. Honest mistakes are different: errors happen, and you can ask for a correction, which stays visible on the page. For someone outside the platform who believes their copyright has been infringed, the Copyright Policy explains how to send a notice. 3.12 Collusion and gaming ------------------------- Much of what is recorded here rests on people not coordinating to fool the system: readers who do not know the author, scorers who do not know the entrant, collaborators who confirm what really happened. Do not undermine that. Review rings. Not all right: - agreeing with other members to score each other's papers, entries or portfolio pieces well; - telling people which paper in the pool is yours, or asking them to look out for it; - trying to learn who your readers are, or contacting them; - as a reader, trying to work out who the author is, or keeping a paper when you recognize it. Use "I think I know whose this is" and it goes to someone else; - arranging, or trying to arrange, to be offered a particular paper or entry; - scoring to help a friend, to hurt a rival or to get even. False confirmations. Not all right: - confirming a project you were not part of, or a contribution you did not see; - officers of an organization confirming roles that were not really held, or an organization invented so that its "officers" can confirm each other; - a friend posing as an outside party; - trading confirmations ("I will confirm yours if you confirm mine"). Teammates confirming each other's real work is how projects are meant to be recorded. The wrong lies in confirming what is untrue, or confirming as a trade. Farmed stamps and counts. Not all right: - leaving an idle or scripted tab at a table to collect visits and pots; - ticking "Done" on pots you were not there for; - asking people to sit at your scheduled table for the head count, or sitting at someone's table for theirs; - trading thanks, or arranging who turns the sign; - any automated help with these (see the Acceptable Use Policy). More than one account, and borrowed accounts. Not all right, for any purpose. Inducements. Do not offer or accept money, gifts, favors, introductions or anything else of value for a score, a confirmation, a nod, attendance, a card trade, a word of thanks or a co-author credit. Tipping Tillyard does not change anyone's standing, and nobody should suggest that it does. Coordinated reporting. Do not organize reports against a member, and do not report in order to win an argument or sideline a rival (section 6.4). Working the matching. Do not try to steer the blind draw, the résumé swap pairing, the Fifteen or any other matching toward or away from a particular person. All right when working with others ---------------------------------- - Two members agreeing, openly, to swap feedback with each other. That is a private exchange and produces no Record item. - Inviting friends to a table because you want their company. - Teammates confirming each other's real work. What may follow: counts, items and titles gained by gaming may be withdrawn for everyone involved, entries may be set aside, and the reading pool or other features may be closed to the people concerned (section 7). 3.13 Spam and solicitation -------------------------- All right when promoting or asking ---------------------------------- - one mention of your project where it fits: a help-wanted card, a card on your own table, a table on that subject, your own thread, your profile; - telling people you are connected with about a table you are hosting; - sharing your survey once in a thread where it is relevant, saying who is running it and what it is for. Not all right when promoting or asking -------------------------------------- - sending the same or nearly the same message to many people, tables or threads; - advertising of any kind, including for your own product, channel, newsletter, server or event, outside the places built for it (listed above); - referral codes, affiliate links, discount codes and sign-up bonuses; - mass thread invitations, or adding people to a thread in order to pitch to them; - nodding again and again at someone who has not nodded back; - asking around for nods, thanks, confirmations, card trades or attendance; - chain messages and "pass it on" requests; - blasting a survey, a petition or a campaign for a candidate, a cause, a club election or a product at people who did not ask. This applies whatever the cause is. Talking about politics, religion or a cause is fine; mass campaigning is spam; - asking for money: crowdfunding links, payment-app requests, "cover my fees", loans. This covers shared spaces and people you barely know. What two friends do is their business, provided nobody is pressed; - collecting members' contact details; - using an order line, a table label, a house-question answer or a profile headline as a billboard; - stuffing a paper or a profile with keywords or links to raise something in search results. 3.14 Recruiting and commerce ---------------------------- Tillyard is not a marketplace or a recruiting board. Members do look for collaborators and co-founders here, and paid roles sometimes come up in conversation. These rules keep that honest and keep members from being used. No recruiting unpaid labor for a business. Do not recruit members to do work for a business without pay. This covers unpaid roles described as exposure, experience, a trial, "equity later" or a favor, and it covers your own startup as much as anyone else's company. What is different, and allowed: - Collaborators who share ownership. A student project or startup team whose members co-own what they build, on the terms of the Standard Team Agreement, is a group of collaborators and not a business taking free work. Say that the role is unpaid and what each person owns. - Service for a charity or a public body. Volunteering for a registered charity or a public body is a different thing from working for a business, and Pursuits has a place for recording it. Describe it truthfully. Tillyard does not place, supervise or vouch for any volunteer role. No advertising of paid work in shared spaces. The Terms of Use do not allow openings for paid work to be posted on the platform. A help-wanted card or a chair card is an invitation to collaborate on a student project. Do not use a card, a table label, an order line, a house-question answer or a broadcast to a thread to advertise paid work. Any paid role must state the pay. Paid roles still come up in conversation between people who know each other. If you mention one, whether your own or one you are passing along, say: - who is paying, by name; - what it pays: an amount or a range, and whether that is hourly, a stipend, per project or commission only; - what the work is and roughly how much time it takes; - whether you gain anything, such as a referral bonus, if someone takes it. If you are recruiting on behalf of an employer or a company you have a stake in, say so each time. Never allowed: - multi-level and "network" marketing, pyramid and matrix schemes, and any role in which people are rewarded mainly for bringing in other people or must buy stock, kits or training to take part; - roles that ask for a fee, a deposit, a purchase or bank details to apply or start; - "campus rep" or "brand ambassador" roles paid in products, points or commission on sign-ups; - recruiting for another platform's referral rewards; - investment, trading, crypto, lending, betting or "passive income" pitches; - selling coursework, essays, admissions essays, problem-set answers, exam help or writing services of any kind, and advertising or brokering them; - paid tutoring, coaching or résumé-writing advertised in shared spaces or on the favor board. A favor is free; - selling or reselling goods, tickets or accounts; - asking a member to sign over their rights in their work, or to sign a confidentiality agreement, as a condition of talking to you here. Favors are free. Nobody pays for a favor, nobody is owed one in return, and nobody writes anyone's graded work. Look after yourself. We do not check opportunities that members mention, and a college email address does not make an offer sound. Common frauds aimed at students include roles that send you a check and ask you to send part of it back, "personal assistant" or reshipping roles, and anything that needs your bank login, Social Security number or a payment before you start. Do not send such details in Notes, a thread or at a table. If you study in the United States on a visa, check with your international student office before taking on any role, paid or unpaid, because the wrong arrangement can put your status at risk. 3.15 Illegal and dangerous activity ----------------------------------- Do not use the platform to plan, promote or carry out anything illegal or seriously dangerous. Examples: - fraud, scams, phishing and identity theft; - false documents, including fake IDs, transcripts and letters; - buying, selling or sharing drugs, including prescription "study drugs", or alcohol for people under 21; - selling weapons, or instructions for making them; - hacking services, stolen accounts, or tools for breaking into systems; - sharing pirated textbooks, paywalled articles, software or exam banks, or links to them; - gambling, betting pools and raffles with paid entry; - hazing and dangerous dares. Studying and writing about any of these subjects is fine (section 1.5). 3.16 Professional-advice limits ------------------------------- Nothing on the platform is professional advice, and nobody here is your lawyer, doctor, therapist, accountant, engineer or financial adviser, including members who are training to become one. - Do not give a real person advice about their own legal, tax, medical, mental-health, immigration, engineering-safety or investment situation. Share general information, say what you did in a similar spot, and point to a professional or a campus office. - If you are in a professional program, your school's and your future profession's rules about unsupervised advice apply to you here as they do anywhere. - Some subjects are kept out of design and practice tracks altogether: structures, pressure systems, mains electricity, vehicles, medical devices and weapons. Pages in fields such as law, tax, medicine and engineering carry a fixed "student exercise" label. Never present a student exercise as something to build, file, take or rely on. - No stock tips, trading signals or promotion of any investment. - Guides in The Almanac, the résumé checker and advice from other members are general information. Nobody can promise you an interview, an offer or an outcome, and nobody should say they can. 3.17 Contact outside the platform --------------------------------- The platform is built so that talking happens in places with a log, a block control and a report control. What you do outside it is your choice. A few rules protect that choice. - Your own details are yours to give. You may give your own number, handle or email address to a member you are connected with, in Notes, if you choose to. You may ask for theirs once, not as your first message, and silence means no. Never put contact details in an order line, a table label, table chat or a house-question answer. - Do not press anyone to move to another app, give you a number or handle, join a call or meet in person. Ask once if you must, and take a non-answer as no. - Do not open with a request to move elsewhere. People who suggest leaving a moderated place within the first few messages are very often the people that place was built to keep out. - For their first days here, new accounts cannot send links or contact details. Do not help anyone get round that, and do not get round it yourself with spacing or spelling tricks. - Nothing on the Record requires private contact. No Record item needs a private one-to-one conversation or a call outside the platform to earn. If anyone tells you that you must take a call or meet them for something to count, it is not true. Please report it. - Our tools stop at our edge. If you move a conversation elsewhere, nothing said there is logged by us, our block and report controls do not reach it, and we may be unable to establish what happened. - If someone you met here harasses you somewhere else, tell us. We can act on their account here, and section 7.9 explains how we treat conduct outside the platform. - If you decide to meet someone in person, that is your decision and your risk. We do not run background checks. A college email address shows that someone controlled a mailbox, not who they are. Meet in a public place and tell a friend where you will be. 3.18 External links and calls ----------------------------- Links. Links in member text appear as text. They are not clickable and have no previews. - Do not disguise where a link goes, and do not use link shorteners or tracking links. - Do not post links to malware, phishing pages, pirated material, sexual or violent content, or anything else these guidelines would not allow here in words. - Do not use a link to carry on a conversation the platform would not carry. - If you follow a link, you leave the platform and its rules. Type or paste it deliberately. Calls. The platform hosts no audio or video. Where the outside-call feature is switched on, the member who opened a table may set a link to a call on an approved outside service, and anyone who follows it sees a notice first. - A call is outside Tillyard. Nothing said there is logged here and our reporting does not reach it. If something goes wrong, come back and report the member. - Joining is always optional. Nobody may be left out of a table's work, a project or a round for declining a call. - Do not record a call unless every person on it has agreed. - Do not move a table to a call in order to say what could not be said here. - Do not post call or server invitations any other way. 3.19 Intellectual property and confidential material ---------------------------------------------------- You own what you make. Tillyard takes only the permission it needs to show your work, and you can end that permission. The Terms of Use and the Author Agreement and Licence set this out. Post only what you have the right to post. - Do not submit or share work that belongs to someone else: another student, a professor, a lab, an employer, a publisher. - Quote with attribution and in proportion. Whether a use is fair use is a legal question we cannot settle for you. - Work made for a class, a lab or an employer may not be yours alone. Say so where the form asks (section 3.9). - Team work belongs to the team on the terms of the Standard Team Agreement. Do not publish it, license it or take it commercial without the consent that agreement requires. Keep confidences. - Do not share an employer's or a lab's confidential information, unpublished results that are not yours to release, or anything you received under a confidentiality agreement. - A paper, résumé or entry you are given to read is confidential until its author publishes it. Do not share it, discuss it at a table, feed it to an AI tool or borrow from it. Names and marks. - Use college, company and organization names truthfully. Do not suggest they are affiliated with or endorse you, your project or Tillyard. - Do not use Tillyard's name or wordmark in a way that suggests we endorse you or that you speak for us. The Trademark and Brand Use Policy says what is allowed. If your work has been copied. The Copyright Policy explains how to send a notice and how the person on the other side can respond. Accounts that repeatedly infringe may be removed under that policy. 4. Place by place ================= The rules in section 3 apply everywhere. This section shows what they look like in each part of the platform. Some features open in stages, so a place described here may not be switched on yet. 4.1 The Shop and its tables --------------------------- How it works. The Shop is a text-only coffee shop that keeps posted hours. You order a drink that says what you came to do, add one line about what you are working on, and sit at a table. If you want to work without hearing anyone, switch on Focusing: no chat reaches you, and other members see a headphones icon by your name. Your name, school, drink and line are shown to the room or only to your table, as you chose in your settings. All right at a table -------------------- - An order line that says what you are doing: "Problem set 6, thermodynamics." - A table label that names a subject: "Organic chemistry, chapter 9." - Sitting at any table with a free seat, and standing up whenever you like. - Working through a whole pot without saying a word. - Putting a pot on for one. Not all right at a table ------------------------ - An order line or table label that advertises, flirts, insults, campaigns, or carries a handle or a number. - A label that tells people who may not sit down ("No first-years", "Engineers from one school only"). - Following someone to their next table after they moved away from you. The room may refuse the move and note the pattern. - Sitting down at a table in order to talk at people, or holding the floor in table chat for the whole session. - Keeping a record of who comes in and when. - Treating the "I plan to come" list as a promise anyone owes you. Nobody is marked absent. - Trying to work out who has blocked you. A table that is closed to you looks the same whatever the reason. Rings and other traces. When you leave, you can choose to leave a ring: your first name, your school and your line, visible to members for 24 hours. A mug on the shelf, "in now" and your usual evenings are separate choices, all off until you turn them on. - Do not use a ring to leave a message for a particular person. - Do not press anyone to switch a trace on, and do not read anything into someone keeping theirs off. A word of thanks. On leaving you can thank someone you sat with, from a fixed list of reasons. Thanks are private and change nothing. Do not trade them. 4.2 Table chat -------------- How it works. Table chat is open throughout a session and reaches only the people at that table. A member who is Focusing hears nobody: no chat line is sent to them, and they cannot chat until they stop. It is logged and may be reviewed, as the Messaging and Monitoring Notice explains. A word filter may stop a message before it is sent, and a message can be withdrawn afterward and sent for review. All right in table chat ----------------------- - "How far did you get?" - "Does anyone know how to facet a ggplot?" - Recommending a book or an article by name. - Saying you would like to keep this break quiet. - Muting someone for the rest of your visit. Not all right in table chat --------------------------- - Rewording a stopped message with spaces, symbols or look-alike letters to get it through. - Personal questions the other person is steering away from: where they live, whether they are seeing anyone. - Opening with a request for a handle or a number. - Turning the break into a pitch for your project, your club or your candidate. - Carrying on an argument after someone has said to leave it. - Talking about a person who has just left the table. - Repeating to the table what someone told you privately in Notes. - Flooding the chat so that nobody else can use it. 4.3 The house question ---------------------- How it works. One question a day. Each member may give one short answer, shown with their name and school, and sees the other answers after posting their own. All right on the house question ------------------------------- - An honest answer. - A joke at nobody's expense. - Rubbing out your own answer later. Not all right on the house question ----------------------------------- - An answer aimed at a person or a group. - An advertisement, a handle or a slogan. - Copying someone else's answer. 4.4 Nods and getting connected ------------------------------ How it works. You can write in Notes only to members you are connected with, and a connection takes a step from each side. Depending on which features are switched on, that step can be both of you choosing to trade cards after a shared pot or a Fifteen, a nod that is returned, a favor that one of you offered and the other accepted, or belonging to the same booth, thread or organization. A nod is wordless. You have a small number each day, and the other person is free to ignore one. All right with nods ------------------- - One nod to someone whose table topic matched yours. - Ignoring a nod, and never explaining. Not all right with nods ----------------------- - Nodding again at someone who did not nod back. Repeated unanswered nods to the same person may be muted. - Asking friends to nod at someone on your behalf. - Nodding at everyone to collect connections. - Asking someone whether they saw your nod or ticked "trade cards". A "no" is never revealed, and you must not try to find it out. - Joining a thread, a booth or an organization in order to become connected to one particular person. - Treating a connection as agreement to anything more than a conversation. 4.5 Window seats, chair cards and the Fifteen --------------------------------------------- How it works. Where these are switched on: a Fifteen is a fifteen-minute text conversation between two members at the window seats. It starts only if both press start, it is logged like any table chat, and "End the conversation" is always the first control. Afterward each person privately chooses whether to trade cards. It earns nothing. A "Pull up a chair" card at a table is built from pick-lists: "Ask me about...", "Looking for...". All right with window seats, chair cards and the Fifteen -------------------------------------------------------- - Asking how someone chose their field or found their first role. - Ending early, with no apology. - "Not this time" to trading cards. - A card that reads "Looking for: a design-minded co-founder", within section 3.14. Not all right with window seats, chair cards and the Fifteen ------------------------------------------------------------ - Treating a Fifteen as a date. - A run of personal questions. - Pressing for a referral, an introduction or contact details after the other person has steered away. - A pitch for a product, a scheme or a paid service. - Copying the conversation to show other people. - Asking afterward whether they chose to trade cards. 4.6 The favor board ------------------- How it works. Where it is switched on, the favor board lists one small thing a member can do for another student, chosen from templates. A favor is free and earns nothing: no stamp, no perk, no Record line. When a favor is accepted, the shop can hold a two-seat table for it so that it can be done somewhere with a log, a block control and a report control. Using that table is your choice. All right on the favor board ---------------------------- - "I will read one résumé and mark it up." - A practice interview by text. - Explaining a regression output. - "Not this one" to a request, and withdrawing your own offer. Not all right on the favor board -------------------------------- - Charging, or hinting that a tip or a favor in return is expected. - Doing someone's graded work. - Using an offer to advertise paid tutoring, coaching or writing. - Advice on someone's own legal, tax, medical or immigration situation. - Promising a result: "I will get you an interview." - Pressing a giver who said no. - Accepting a favor to get one-to-one access to someone for another purpose. - Insisting that it be done on a call. 4.7 Messages and threads ------------------------ How it works. Notes are private messages between two connected members. A thread is a group conversation with a limit on its size. An invitation to a thread must be accepted, the member who started it can remove people, and anyone can leave. Project booths and organization tables have threads of their own. Everything is text. Block, mute and report are in every conversation. Messages and threads are not end-to-end encrypted. They are screened automatically, and staff can read a conversation in the situations set out in the Messaging and Monitoring Notice. Read that notice before you write anything you would mind someone else reading. All right in Messages and threads --------------------------------- - Following up after a table you shared. - Arranging when to study together. - A thread for your project team. - Leaving a thread without a word. - Not replying. Not all right in Messages and threads ------------------------------------- - Messages that keep coming after no reply. - Anything you could not say at a table: sexual, threatening, hateful or harassing content. - Reaching someone who blocked you, through a thread or through another person. - Adding people to a thread in order to pitch to them or to mock someone. - A thread set up to talk about a member behind their back. - Adding and removing the same person over and over. - Asking anyone for a sign-in code, a passkey approval or a password. Staff never ask for these. - Sending bank details, identity numbers or other secrets. These conversations are not the place for them. - Pressing someone to move to another app. - Posting a conversation somewhere else to embarrass the other person (section 3.6). If you start a thread. You can remove people from it, and that is the whole of your power. You are not a moderator for Tillyard. If someone breaks these guidelines in your thread, report it. 4.8 Papers in Tillyard Research ------------------------------ How it works. You choose your own subject and your own timing. You write in Tillyard's editor, which, with your agreement, keeps a draft history and counts how much you typed and how much you pasted. Each source needs a link or a DOI. You declare any AI help, where the work came from and whether people were involved. Students at other colleges who chose to read may read your paper without knowing whose it is, and score it against the published rubric. The editor decides in every case. The paper's public page says exactly who read it. The Editorial Policy of Tillyard Research, the AI-Use Policy and the Author Agreement and Licence have the detail and govern. All right with papers in Tillyard Research ----------------------------------------- - A case study of food waste in your dining hall, built on your own survey, with consent. - A paper that began in a class, where your instructor allows it and you say so. - Revising after the rubric notes. - Asking for a correction after publication, or withdrawing your paper. Not all right with papers in Tillyard Research --------------------------------------------- - Invented sources, or sources you did not open. - A paper your instructor, lab or employer has not allowed you to publish. - A co-author's text used without them. - A paper that promotes your own startup, employer or product without saying so. - Private people named or identifiable without their written agreement. - Damaging factual claims about a real person or business that you cannot support. - Advice to a real person on law, tax, medicine or money, and instructions that could get someone hurt (section 3.16). - Leaving your name or other identifying details in the text so that readers can tell whose it is. - Trying to reach your readers. - Sending a declined paper again under a new title. - Answering readers' notes with abuse, or going after the editor over a decision. There is an appeal for that. 4.9 Readings ------------ How it works. Reading is voluntary. You opt into the pool, you are offered a paper, and you may decline any offer. Declining is never counted. You do not know who wrote the paper, and the author does not learn who read it. You score against the rubric and give your reasons, and where you check a source you type what you found. The Reader Guidelines have the detail and govern. All right in a reading ---------------------- - Declining because you are busy, or because the subject is not yours. - "I think I know whose this is." - A low score with clear reasons. - Asking for more time, or handing a paper back. Not all right in a reading -------------------------- - Keeping a paper you recognize. - Scoring without reading. - Having an AI tool write your reading. - Reasons that attack the author instead of the paper. - Sharing the paper, or discussing it with anyone, before it is published. - Using its ideas, data or sources in your own work before it is published. - Telling an author afterward that you were their reader. - Rushing through papers to raise a count. Nothing depends on how much you read: there are no perks, no standing and no penalties tied to it. 4.10 Rounds ----------- How it works. A round is a contest whose rules are published before anyone enters. The rules say who may enter, how entries are scored, whether entrants score other entries and how ties are settled. If entrants score each other in a round, that is because its rules said so before you entered. Each round's official rules, drawn from the Rounds Official Rules Template and published before anyone enters, govern that round. All right in a round -------------------- - Entering your own work. - Scoring each entry by the published criteria and nothing else. - Asking a question about the rules through the form. Not all right in a round ------------------------ - An entry that is not yours or your team's. - A team entry without the Standard Team Agreement in place. - Sharing answers or entries while the round is open. - Scoring an entry you recognize as a friend's or as your own team's. - Trading scores, or scoring rivals down to move yourself up. - Entering twice, or through a second account. - Contacting scorers, or lobbying anyone about a result. - More AI help than the round's rules allow. - Going after winners, scorers or Tillyard over a result. Use the dispute form. 4.11 Portfolio pieces --------------------- How it works. In some Pursuits tracks, a portfolio piece is confirmed by students from the open pool who chose to read it. They open your evidence and type what they observed. All right with portfolio pieces ------------------------------- - A link to a specific commit, revision or archived copy. - A statement of which part is yours. Not all right with portfolio pieces ----------------------------------- - Evidence that is someone else's work. - Changing what is behind the link after it was read. - Asking someone in the pool to pick yours. - As a reader, confirming without opening the evidence, or typing what the author asked you to type. 4.12 Projects and booths ------------------------ How it works. A team reserves a booth, and the booth's ledger records each working session. Before the first session the team accepts the Standard Team Agreement, which settles who owns what, what happens if someone leaves and what needs everyone's consent. Collaborators confirm each other's contributions, and a contribution line can be disputed. A "Help wanted" card lets a team look for a specific role. All right in projects and booths -------------------------------- - A card that reads "Looking for: someone who knows survey design, about three weeks, unpaid, with shared credit and co-ownership under the Team Agreement." - Recording honestly who did what. - Disputing a credit line you believe is wrong. - Leaving a project on the agreed terms. Not all right in projects and booths ------------------------------------ - A card that recruits unpaid help for a business, or that advertises paid work (section 3.14). - Sitting idle in the booth to add sessions to the ledger. - Listing someone who did not contribute, or dropping someone who did. - Confirming a teammate's line that you know is inflated. - Taking the project commercial, or publishing it under your name alone, without the consent the agreement requires. - Asking teammates to sign their rights over to you. - Freezing a teammate out of the thread as a tactic. - Posting an employer's or a lab's confidential material in the booth. 4.13 Scheduled tables and hosting --------------------------------- How it works. A member who is eligible may host a scheduled table on a subject they choose, at a time they choose. Hosting is voluntary. There are no required hours, minimum counts or targets, and nothing happens to a member who stops. Attendance is counted from the table's log. A set of linked tables is a table series. It is not a class or a program of study, and nobody receives a mark for attending. The Hosting Terms and Disclosure Policy say more about what hosting involves. If you host: - Describe the table honestly: the subject, who it suits and how much it assumes. - Turn up, or cancel in good time. - Welcome anyone who sits down respectfully. - Say what you know and how you know it. Do not claim expertise you do not have. - No selling, no sign-up sheets and no collecting contact details. - No help with graded work, and no advice on anyone's own legal, tax, medical or money matters. - Do not ask people to attend for the head count. - If you set an outside call link, joining it must be optional, and nothing that counts toward anyone's Record may depend on it. - You have no power over other members. You cannot remove or silence anyone. If someone breaks these guidelines at your table, report it. - If you post about your table or about Tillyard somewhere else, say that you host here (section 4.18). If you attend: - The host is a fellow student who chose to run the table. They are not staff, they were not appointed by Tillyard to teach, and they are not responsible for moderating. - Treat what is said as one student's understanding of the subject. 4.14 Organizations ------------------ How it works. A real student organization can have a named table and a page. An officer's role is recorded when another officer of the same organization confirms it. The record says exactly that, and says that Tillyard did not check the role itself. All right with organizations ---------------------------- - Listing the role you actually hold, with its dates. - Confirming a fellow officer you served alongside. - A standing table for your meetings. Not all right with organizations -------------------------------- - An organization that does not exist, or exists only here. - Claiming to speak for an organization without its authority. - Confirming a role that was not held, or swapping confirmations among friends. - Describing an organization as recognized, sponsored or endorsed by a college when it is not. - Using a college's or a national body's name to suggest that it backs Tillyard. - Hazing, or any initiation that pressures members. - Turning members away on a ground listed in section 3.2. - Using the organization's table or thread to sell, to recruit for a scheme barred by section 3.14, or to campaign at people who did not ask. Disagreements about who an organization's officers really are go through the dispute form. We do not rule on an organization's internal affairs. We may mark or withdraw a record that is contested. 4.15 Service records -------------------- How it works. Pursuits can record public-good work done for a charity or a public body. You share a confirmation link with the person at the organization who knows what you did. If they choose to confirm it, they do so from their own organizational email address, and the record then says who confirmed it and from what kind of address. All right with service records ------------------------------ - Recording what you did, for whom and when. - Asking your coordinator once, politely, whether they would confirm it. Not all right with service records ---------------------------------- - Work for a business described as service. - Paid work described as volunteering. - Sending the link to anyone other than a person at the organization who saw the work. - Pressing an organization to confirm. - Describing the organization as a partner of Tillyard, or Tillyard as a partner of the organization. - Describing a student exercise as professional work (section 3.16). The arrangement is between you and the organization. Tillyard does not place, supervise, insure or vouch for anyone's volunteer role. 4.16 The Record, your profile and the directory ----------------------------------------------- How it works. The Record shows three kinds of item, each marked differently: approved (the editor approved or signed it), recorded (Tillyard logged it, or the people named confirmed it) and self-reported (you told us, and nobody checked). Your public page, a listing in the directory and visibility to search engines are separate choices, all off until you turn them on. All right on The Record, your profile and the directory ------------------------------------------------------- - A headline that says what you study and what you are looking for. - A self-reported campus award, marked as self-reported. - Keeping everything private. Not all right on The Record, your profile and the directory ----------------------------------------------------------- - Claims in a headline or a bio that nobody could check ("Top analyst in my class"). - House titles or house wording typed into a self-reported item. - A LinkedIn address or any other link that is not yours. - Other people's names or details in your profile without their agreement. - Using the directory to compile lists of members (see the Acceptable Use Policy). - Telling a recruiter that Tillyard checked a self-reported item. 4.17 The résumé swap -------------------- How it works. In The Workbench, two members who each chose to take part read each other's résumé, with identifying details removed, against a published rubric. The swap is never a condition of using any tool. All right in the résumé swap ---------------------------- - Passing on an offer. - Specific, useful notes. - Handing a swap back if you cannot finish it. Not all right in the résumé swap -------------------------------- - Trying to work out whose résumé it is. - Keeping it, sharing it or reusing its wording. - Personal remarks. - Putting your contact details in your notes. 4.18 Talking about Tillyard elsewhere ------------------------------------ - Say what your connection is. If you post about Tillyard and you hold a title, a founding number or another perk from us, or you host tables here, say so in the same post, for example: "I host tables at Tillyard." - Say only what you think. We do not script praise and we do not reward posts. - Honest criticism is welcome. Nothing in these guidelines stops you from giving your honest opinion of Tillyard, anywhere. - Do not speak for us, and do not suggest that we endorse you. - Respect your campus. Do not use a college's logo, colors, mascot, mailing lists or noticeboards to promote Tillyard without that college's permission, and follow your campus's posting rules. - Leave other members out of it. Do not post their names, words or records from here (section 3.6). 5. Hosts, staff and Tillyard =========================== 5.1 Hosts are members --------------------- A host is a member who opened or scheduled a table. The member who opens a table can set its topic and label and, where that feature is on, a call link. That is all. No member can remove another member, silence them for others, close a room, see reports or decide anything about another member's account. Anyone who claims such powers does not have them. 5.2 Staff --------- - Staff are the owner and people the company pays under a written contract. Tillyard does not use unpaid staff, and members are not asked to moderate. - Staff do not take part in rooms as members do. Tillyard reaches you through notices on the site and through email from tillyard.org. - Staff never ask for your sign-in code, never ask you to approve a passkey request and never ask you for money in a conversation. Anyone who does is not staff. Please report them. - The editor's decisions on papers are editorial judgments. You may disagree, and you may appeal once. Do not lobby, press or abuse the editor, and do not offer anything for a decision. - Tipping does not change your standing here. Do not mention a tip when you are asking for a decision. - Treat staff with the respect you would show another member. - If you think staff have acted wrongly, write to legal@tillyard.org. If your complaint is about the owner, write instead to the board's other two trustees, at monica@tillyard.org or jason@tillyard.org. You can also take the matter to a regulator or a court at any time; nothing in our documents stops you. Section 7.6 says more about this. 5.3 Tillyard's barista --------------------- The barista in the shop is an automated script with fixed lines, and it is labelled as automated. It is not a person and not an AI adviser. It does not read or answer what you type. Do not imitate it. 5.4 Speaking for Tillyard ------------------------ Only staff speak for Tillyard. A title, a founding number, a host record or a long history here does not make anyone its representative. 6. Blocking, muting and reporting ================================= 6.1 The tools you have ---------------------- - Block. A blocked member cannot sit with you, see your card or write to you, and you stop seeing theirs. They are not told. - Mute. You stop seeing a person's chat for a visit, or stop getting notices from a conversation. - Leave. Stand up, leave the thread, end the conversation. Always available, never explained. - Report. Every member, and everything a member writes, has a report control. People without an account can use the public forms. Use them early. You do not need a reason to block anyone. 6.2 What to report, and how --------------------------- Report anything you believe breaks these guidelines or the law. Choose the category that fits best. The report form lists twelve, in these words and this order: 1. Harassment or threats 2. Hate 3. Sexual content 4. An intimate image of me 5. Child safety 6. This member may be under 18 7. Worried about someone 8. Spam or a scam 9. Impersonation or a false record 10. Plagiarism or undisclosed AI assistance 11. Copyright 12. Something else Section 4 of the Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy says what belongs in each. When you report, the surrounding context is captured automatically, so you do not need to copy anything. The Messaging and Monitoring Notice lists what is attached. Add a sentence saying what is wrong if it is not obvious from the content. There is a daily limit on reports, and reports are weighed and not simply counted, so that reporting cannot be used to push someone off the platform. 6.3 Emergencies --------------- We are not an emergency service, and reports are not read around the clock. If someone is in danger now, call 911 first and report afterward. 6.4 Reporting in good faith --------------------------- - A report made honestly is never a violation, even when we decide that no rule was broken. - Do not file a report you know to be false, report someone to punish or silence them, or organize others to report. - Do not retaliate against anyone you believe reported you, and do not try to find out who did. - Disputing a record or a decision never costs you your standing. 6.5 Who learns what ------------------- - We do not tell the person you reported who made the report. Our notices say only that something came from a member report or from automated screening. - In a conversation between two people, the other person may guess. If that would put you at risk, say so in your report. - A court could order us to disclose who made a report. Short of that, we keep it to the staff who need to know. - We may tell you that your report was received and, where we can, that it has been closed. We usually cannot tell you what was done about another member's account. 6.6 What not to do in place of reporting ---------------------------------------- - Do not confront, expose or "call out" a member at a table, in a thread or on another site. - Do not gather a group against them. - Do not set a trap to catch someone out. - Do not investigate a suspected minor, a suspected fraud or a suspected false record yourself. Tell us what you saw and leave it there. 7. How enforcement works, in outline ==================================== This section is an outline. The Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy has the steps, the time limits and the detail, and it governs where the two differ. 7.1 Who decides --------------- - A person, not software, decides every notice, 24-hour mute, suspension and removal for conduct. Software may hold an item, stop your table chat for one visit, or pause an account while a person looks, including a pause of up to 24 hours when activity looks like abuse; that pause ends by itself unless a person extends it, and it is not a finding. One closure happens by rule: an age re-check answered "under 18" or "high-school student", or left unanswered. - Automated tools can act in the moment: they can stop or withdraw a single message or item, hide an item while it waits for a person (a hold), switch table chat off for you for the rest of a visit after three lines were stopped by the word filter, slow you down or end a session for technical abuse, as the Acceptable Use Policy explains, and pause an account while something is checked, for example when an account is reported as possibly belonging to someone under 18. None of these is a finding that you broke a rule. - At present one person, the owner, makes the decisions. 7.2 What we may do ------------------ Depending on what happened, we may: - take no action; - hide, hold, unlist or remove an item, or ask you to edit it; - send a notice that names the rule and the item, which is the formal warning; - mute you for 24 hours (currently), so that you cannot write in table chat, Notes, threads or the house question; - restrict a feature for a time, such as table chat, Notes, threads, hosting, the reading pool, the résumé swap, favors, rounds or call links; - pause the account while we check something; - suspend the account for 7 days (currently); - remove the account permanently and refuse a new one; - decline, unlist, correct or retract a paper; - withdraw a title, a Record item, a confirmation, a count or a perk, or mark an item as disputed; - set aside a reading, a score or an entry; - preserve information and, where appropriate and lawful, refer a matter outside Tillyard (section 7.8). For repeated lesser breaches the usual order is a notice (the formal warning), then a 24-hour mute, then a 7-day suspension, then removal. Those lengths are the current ones. Staff may also close one feature to you for a stated time. Serious conduct can go straight to suspension or removal. 7.3 What we weigh ----------------- - How serious the harm was or could have been, and to whom. - Whether it was deliberate, careless or an honest mistake. - Whether it is part of a pattern, and whether there were earlier warnings. - Whether the person put it right, and how they responded when it was raised. - The context (section 1.5). - Whether a role of trust was used: as a host, a reader, an officer, the starter of a thread or a co-author. 7.4 Conduct that can end membership at once ------------------------------------------- Without limiting section 7.2, a single instance of any of the following may lead to immediate removal: - being under 18, or anything sexual involving a minor; - a credible threat of violence; - stalking, sexual coercion or extortion; - sharing or threatening to share intimate images; - exposing private information in a way that puts someone at risk; - defrauding members, or impersonating staff; - deliberately invented records or confirmations; - selling coursework, or running a scheme barred by section 3.14; - an attack on the platform or on members' data; - returning after removal. 7.5 What we tell you -------------------- When we act on your content or your account, we aim to tell you: - what the action is and which item it concerns; - which rule it was taken under; - whether it reached us through a member report or through automated screening, though never who reported; - how long it lasts, if it is temporary; - how to ask for an appeal. We may give less detail, delay a notice or give none where telling you would put someone at risk, would get in the way of an investigation or a legal duty, or is forbidden by law. In matters of child safety we may give no notice, or only a short neutral one that gives no reason. A member whose account is closed because they are under 18 is told that it has been closed. The Child Safety Policy (sections 4.4 and 9.6) governs. 7.6 Appeals ----------- - You can ask once for a decision about your content, your record or your account to be looked at again. The Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy says how and by when. - Tell us what you think we got wrong, and add anything we did not have. - While one person runs Tillyard, the person who looks again may be the person who made the first decision. Where someone else is available, we aim to use them. - A restriction usually stays in place while an appeal is considered. - The appeal decision ends our own process. It does not take away any right you have under the Terms of Use or the law. 7.7 What enforcement does to the Record --------------------------------------- - A withdrawn item's page shows a neutral status, such as "withdrawn" or "no longer listed". It gives no reason. - We do not publish anyone's moderation history, and we do not tell employers, colleges or anyone else why an item changed, unless the law requires it. - Corrections and retractions of papers appear as dated notices in neutral words. - A warning, a restriction or a suspension is not shown on any public page, and a suspension does not by itself change what a Record says. When an account is paused for an age check, closed or removed, its pages read "no longer listed". - Counts and perks obtained by gaming may be removed. - Titles are granted and withdrawn only by staff. 7.8 Referral outside Tillyard ---------------------------- We do not report members to their colleges as a routine matter. The site's standing sentence on referral reads: "Serious misconduct such as threats, stalking, fraud or impersonation may lead to permanent removal and, where appropriate and lawful, referral to law enforcement or your institution." "Your institution" means your college. Here is how narrow that is: - Breaking these guidelines is not, by itself, something we tell a college about. A referral to a college would be made only in a rare case, for example to its police or safety office where there is a threat to people on its campus. - A referral says who you are, which college you attend, and in facts what happened here and what we decided. Section 19.9 of the Terms of Use is where you agree to that, and it goes no further. A referral never carries the contents of anyone's messages on that footing. - The law limits what we may disclose about your messages and to whom. The Messaging and Monitoring Notice explains those limits. - If another member has harmed you and you want to take it to your college or to the police, that is your decision to make. Your export holds the messages you wrote, not the ones you received; to keep what someone sent you, report it, which saves a fixed copy into a case, or copy it yourself. Section 3.6 allows you to share a conversation for that purpose. - Some things the law requires of us: reporting apparent child sexual exploitation, and answering valid legal process. In an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury, we may give a law enforcement agency or other government emergency service what relates to that danger. 7.9 Conduct outside the platform -------------------------------- These guidelines govern what happens here. We may also take account of conduct elsewhere when it is connected to the platform and bears on members' safety or on the truth of the Record. Examples: - harassment, threats or stalking of a member that began here, or that continues a contact made here; - false claims about a Record item on a résumé or a profile; - posting members' private information or conversations taken from here; - credible evidence of a serious offense that makes someone a risk to other members. We do not monitor other sites. We look at what is brought to us, and we may be unable to establish what happened somewhere we cannot see. 7.10 What we do not promise --------------------------- - We do not review everything and we do not see everything. Screening and reports both miss things, and both make mistakes. - We do not promise to act on every report, to act within any set time other than a time fixed by law, or to reach the outcome a reporter wants. - We do not vouch for any member, check anyone's background or stand behind what members say, offer or confirm to each other. - We decide in good faith and can get it wrong. The appeal exists for that. - Not acting on one occasion does not mean we approve of the conduct or give up the right to act later. - Nothing here limits our right under the Terms of Use to restrict or end access to the platform. 7.11 Getting round a decision ----------------------------- Do not get round a hold, a restriction, a suspension or a removal. That means no new account, no borrowed account, and no asking someone else to post or message for you. Doing so may turn a temporary measure into a permanent one, for both accounts. 8. Changes to this document =========================== - We may change these guidelines as the platform grows, as the law changes or as we learn where they fall short. - Each version carries a number and an effective date at the top, and earlier versions are kept available. - For a change that matters, such as a new rule, a wider one or a new consequence, we aim to tell members on the site, and by email where the Terms of Use call for it, before the change takes effect. Small clarifications, corrections and new examples may take effect when posted. - A change applies to conduct after it takes effect. - If you do not agree with a change, you can close your account as the Terms of Use describe. 9. Contact ========== - To report a member or content: use the report control beside it, or the public report form at tillyard.org/report. - To have an intimate image removed: use the form at tillyard.org/removal/intimate, or write to safety@tillyard.org. No account is needed. Removing an Intimate Image: Short Notice is the one-screen version of the Intimate-Image Removal Policy. - A concern about a child: see the Child Safety Policy. If a child is in danger now, call 911. - To dispute or correct a record, a credit, a confirmation or a decision: use the dispute form described in the Disputes and Corrections Policy. - Copyright notices: copyright@tillyard.org, as the Copyright Policy explains. - Questions about these guidelines: support@tillyard.org. - Legal notices: legal@tillyard.org, or by post to Tillyard, 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062. - Security problems: security@tillyard.org. - Accessibility: accessibility@tillyard.org. - In an emergency, call 911. In a crisis, call or text 988.