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Community Guidelines

Module D.U.C.K. · Effective and last updated: 7 October 2026

Module D.U.C.K. is an app about nights out. People log what they drink, tag the friends they are out with, check in at places, post photos, comment on each other's nights, and talk in a global chat room that every user of the app can read. That makes this a community, and a community needs a floor under it.

Here is the whole idea in one sentence: the point of this app is that people look out for each other. A good night out is one where everyone gets home. If your posting makes someone's night worse (if it pushes them to drink more than they wanted, embarrasses them, exposes where they are, or makes them feel unsafe in the chat), you are working against what this app is for, and these Guidelines apply to you.

These Guidelines are part of our Terms of Use. Breaking them is breaking the Terms. The Privacy Policy explains what we store and who can see it.

Contents

1. The spirit of this place
2. Where these Guidelines apply
3. What is not allowed
4. Alcohol and safety
5. How to report content or a user
6. How to block someone
7. What happens after you report
8. How to appeal a decision
9. The word filter, and its limits
10. Our commitment on timing
11. Contact

1. The spirit of this place

Most of what happens here is people having a good time and telling their friends about it. Nobody needs a rulebook for that.

The rules exist for the rest of it. An app with a drink log collects things that can be used against a person: how much they drank, where they were, who they were with, what they look like at 2am. Someone trusted you enough to tag you, accept your friend request, or share a Safe Mode link with you. Treat that like the trust it is.

Three things we ask of everyone, beyond the list of prohibitions:

• Look after the person in front of you first. If a friend is in trouble, the app is not where you deal with it. Put the phone down.
• Assume the person reading is having a harder night than you are. The global chat reaches strangers in six languages and every timezone. Someone in there is trying to cut back, or is newly sober, or is drinking alone. Post accordingly.
• Nobody's drinking is a competition. Not yours, not theirs. If your post only works because someone else looks worse, do not post it.

2. Where these Guidelines apply

Everywhere in the app that another person can see, which is more places than people expect:

Your username counts as content. A slur, a sexual phrase, an impersonation of someone real, or a string designed to slip past the filter is a violation whether or not you ever post a word.

3. What is not allowed

Do not post, send, upload, or set as your username anything in this list. This is not exhaustive. We will act on things that are obviously against the spirit above even if we did not think to write them down.

Harassment and bullying

• Insults, name-calling, humiliation, or mockery aimed at a person.
• Pile-ons and coordinated targeting of one user.
• Unwanted repeated contact (comments, tags, friend requests, or chat messages) after someone has asked you to stop or blocked you.
• Sexual harassment, including unwanted sexual comments, propositions, or remarks about someone's body.
• Posting or resharing someone's drinking, behaviour, or photos to shame them. "It's a joke" is not a defence, and neither is "they're my mate" if they have told us otherwise.
• Creating a new account to keep contacting someone who blocked you, or to evade a suspension.

Hate speech and slurs

• Attacks, slurs, dehumanising language, or hateful stereotypes based on race, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, religion, caste, disability, disease, age, sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• Hateful symbols, and praise or support for people or groups organised around hatred or violence.
• Slurs are not permitted as jokes, as reclaimed usage aimed at someone else, or with the letters swapped out.

Threats and violence

• Threatening, encouraging, or wishing violence or harm on anyone.
• Trying to organise or coordinate violence, or intimidating someone into silence.
• Graphic violence, gore, or animal cruelty.
• Encouraging or instructing anyone toward suicide or self-harm. If you are struggling, please reach out to a doctor or a local crisis line rather than posting, and if you are worried about someone who has posted, report it to us and contact your local emergency number.

Sexual content and nudity

• No nudity, no sexually explicit images, video, or writing, and no pornography, in logs, photos, comments, chat, usernames, or avatars.
• No sexual services, escorting, or solicitation.
• No sexualising another user who has not invited it. Photos of a person taken while they were drunk are not yours to sexualise.
• No intimate images of anyone shared without their consent, ever. This includes images that were originally sent to you privately.

Minors: zero tolerance

Separately from that, and just as firmly:

• Nobody under 18 may use Module D.U.C.K., anywhere, for any reason. See Terms Section 2. If we find an account belongs to someone under 18 we close it and delete the data.
• Do not post photos of children, in a drinking context or otherwise.
• Do not encourage, offer, or arrange for anyone under the legal drinking age to obtain or consume alcohol.
• If you think an account belongs to a minor, report it. You will not be in trouble for reporting in good faith and being wrong.

Illegal goods, drugs, and alcohol supply

• No offering, selling, advertising, arranging, or asking for illegal drugs, including through a coded name, an emoji, or a "DM me".
• No selling or supplying alcohol, and never to anyone under age.
• No weapons, stolen goods, counterfeits, fake IDs, or other illegal or regulated items.
• No instructions for illegal activity.

Spam and scams

• No advertising, promotion, referral links, affiliate links, or link schemes.
• No bulk, repetitive, or automated posting; no engagement farming; no bots or scripts.
• No fraud, phishing, fake giveaways, crypto or investment pitches, or attempts to get money or account details out of another user.
• No fake accounts, and no using the app for anything other than what it is for.

Impersonation and deception

• Do not pretend to be another person, a business, a venue, a public figure, or us.
• Do not use someone else's name, photo, or identity in a way that could mislead people. Parody is fine only if it is obvious to a reasonable person.
• Do not falsely claim to speak for Module D.U.C.K. moderation, support, or safety.

Doxxing, privacy, and other people's locations

• Do not post anyone's home or work address, phone number, email, workplace, school, financial details, or identity documents.
• Do not post or forward anyone's location without their consent. That includes screenshots of a friend's live location, and it includes forwarding a Safe Mode link you were sent. That link was given to you, not to whoever you would forward it to.
• Do not post about someone else's drinking, sobriety, recovery, or health without their consent. For some people that information costs them a job or a relationship.
• Do not post photos of identifiable people who have not agreed to it, and take a tag or a photo down when someone asks.
• Do not use tagging, check-ins, live location, or Safe Mode to track, follow, monitor, or control another person. Accounts doing this are terminated, and in many places it is also a crime.
• Do not screenshot private conversations or friends-only posts and republish them.

4. Alcohol and safety

This section is the one that is specific to this app, and it is the one we enforce most readily.

Do not encourage anyone to drink dangerously

• No dares, challenges, or counts. No "how many can you do", no shot-count contests, no timed challenges, no "finish it", no daring someone to keep going.
• No drinking games built around getting intoxicated fast. Anything whose point is rapid intoxication (chugging, funnels, boot-and-rally, century clubs, power hours, blackout as a goal) is not welcome here, in the chat or as a post.
• No pressure. Do not tell anyone to keep up. Do not mock, needle, or exclude someone for stopping, for switching to water, for going home, or for not drinking at all. Someone in this app has a "cut back" or "sober" goal set right now.
• Do not treat a high number as an achievement to beat. Post your own night however you like; do not turn someone else's into a scoreboard.
• Never encourage someone to drink who has told you they are pregnant, on medication, in recovery, has a health condition, or has simply said no.
• Never encourage drink-driving, or any other unlawful or dangerous act while drunk. Do not offer a lift you should not be giving.
• Do not use the BAC estimator (yours or anyone else's) to argue that someone is fine to drive. It is arithmetic on numbers you typed in. It is not a measurement, and it is not a defence. See Terms Section 6.

If you are worried about someone

Warning signs worth knowing: confusion or unresponsiveness, vomiting while drowsy or unconscious, seizures, slow or irregular breathing, pale or blue-tinged skin, cold skin or low body temperature, and being impossible to wake. Stay with them, keep them on their side, and call for help.

If the worry is less acute (a friend whose logs are climbing, someone in the chat who sounds like they are struggling), the useful move is a private, unshaming conversation with that person, and pointing them at a doctor or a local support service. Not a comment thread. Not a post about them. And if you are worried about your own drinking, the goals and sober-day counter in this app are a tracking tool, not treatment; please talk to someone qualified.

Safe Mode is a courtesy, not a watchman

If someone sends you a Safe Mode link, they are asking you to actually look. Look. And understand what the feature is not: it does not detect that anything has gone wrong, it never alerts anyone automatically, and nobody at Module D.U.C.K. is monitoring it. Terms Section 7 sets this out in full. If the dot stops moving somewhere it should not be, that is on you to act on.

5. How to report content or a user

Reporting is the main thing that makes moderation work here. There is no team reading the global chat live.

In the app

• Use the report option on the content itself (on a chat message, a log, a photo, or a comment) or on the person's profile to report the account.
• Pick the closest reason and add a sentence if the reason is not obvious. Context genuinely changes the outcome.
• You can report and block in one go. You do not have to keep looking at something to report it.

By email, if you cannot use the in-app report

Email ocag.bynm@gmail.com. To let us act quickly, include:

• the username of the person involved;
• where you saw it (global chat, a log, a comment, a photo, a profile, a username);
• when, as closely as you can, including your timezone;
• what you saw, and a screenshot if you have one and it is safe and lawful for you to send it. Never send us sexual imagery involving a minor. Describe it and report it in the app; possessing or forwarding that material is a serious crime in itself.

Some things do not come to us first

Reports are treated confidentially: we do not tell the reported person who reported them. Report in good faith. Mass reporting, reporting to harass someone, or filing knowingly false reports is itself a violation.

6. How to block someone

You do not need our permission or a reason to cut someone off, and you do not have to wait for a report to be resolved.

• Block from their profile, or from the report flow on any of their content. A blocked person cannot contact you, comment on your posts, react to them, tag you, or send you a friend request, and their content is hidden from you.
• Remove a friend to withdraw everything you share with friends, including your coarse live location.
• Ghost Mode stops the app publishing your rough location to friends at all.
• Per-log visibility (Public, Friends, or Only me) and hide from specific people let you keep an individual night away from named friends without unfriending anyone.
• End a Safe Mode session to kill the share link. Once the session is over, the link stops returning your location.
• Untag yourself from someone else's log, and ask them to remove a photo of you. If they will not, report it.

Blocking is not a substitute for reporting. If someone broke these Guidelines, block and report. Otherwise they carry on doing it to everyone else.

7. What happens after you report

Review

Every report is looked at by a person. We consider what was posted, the surface it was posted on, the context around it, whether the account has done it before, and whether anyone is at risk. Where a report suggests immediate danger to someone, we prioritise that over everything else in the queue and we may contact the authorities.

We may act on our own initiative too. We are not obliged to monitor content, but we may, and we can act without a report.

Possible outcomes

We generally escalate, but not always. Some things skip straight to permanent termination on a first offence, with no warning: anything sexual involving a minor, credible threats of violence, non-consensual intimate images, doxxing that puts someone at risk, using the app to stalk or track a person, and evading a previous suspension.

Where it is appropriate and lawful, we will tell the affected person what we did and why. In urgent cases we act first and explain afterwards.

8. How to appeal a decision

We get things wrong. Automated filters get things wrong more often. If we removed your content, restricted your account, or closed it and you think that was a mistake, you can ask us to look again.

• Email ocag.bynm@gmail.com with the subject line Appeal, within 30 days of the decision.
• Include your username, what was removed or restricted, and why you think the decision was wrong. If there is context we could not see, this is the moment to give it.
• We aim to answer appeals within 7 days. Wherever we can, the appeal is reviewed by someone who was not involved in the original decision.
• We will tell you the outcome: the decision stands, or it is reversed and your content or access is restored.
• Filing an appeal does not pause the restriction while we consider it.

Two exceptions. There is no appeal for content that sexually exploits a minor. And appeals from accounts created to evade an earlier suspension are closed without review.

If you are in the EU/EEA or the UK, nothing in this section removes any right you have under local law to complain to a regulator or to pursue an out-of-court dispute-resolution route.

9. The word filter, and its limits

The global chat is screened automatically against a word list before a message posts. We want to be straight with you about what that is and is not.

• It is a first line, not moderation. It matches words. It does not understand context, sarcasm, threats phrased politely, coordinated harassment, images, or a slur with a letter swapped out.
• It has false positives. It will sometimes block something harmless. If that happens to you, appeal and we will fix the list.
• It has false negatives, and they are the ones that matter. Plenty of content that breaks these Guidelines will get through, especially photos, which the filter does not look at.
• A message getting past the filter does not make it allowed. The Guidelines are the standard; the filter is a tool.
• Deliberately working around the filter (respacing, misspelling, or substituting characters to get a prohibited word through) is itself a violation, and it tells us the intent was there.
• Humans back it up. Every report goes to a person. That is why reporting matters more here than in a bigger app.

Filtering is not a promise that the chat is clean or safe. If you would not want a stranger's worst message in your evening, the global chat is a room you can simply not use. The rest of the app works without it.

10. Our commitment on timing

These are the commitments we hold ourselves to when a report comes in:

We will acknowledge your report and tell you when we have acted on it. If a case is genuinely complicated and takes longer, we will say so rather than leave you waiting in silence.

11. Contact

These Guidelines will change as the app and the community do. The "last updated" date at the top always reflects the current version, and we will tell you in the app before a change that materially affects what is allowed takes effect.

These Community Guidelines form part of the Terms of Use and sit alongside the Privacy Policy. Module D.U.C.K. is a personal tracking and social app, not a medical device, a safety service, a treatment programme, or an emergency service. For people of legal drinking age only: 21+ in the United States, and never under 18 anywhere. Please look after yourself and the people you are out with.