Acceptable Usage Policy for tracker2.postman.i2p AKA "The rules"

version 1.4, build 2025061002

1 Introduction

This website's code, design and operation is a private project run by a few like-minded individuals. Our primary goal has always been to provide a stable and reliable service to a hopefully growing I2P community, a service that is seen as one of the standard eepsites to visit. While it is indeed easy to create and offer a new website to the I2P world, it is much harder to operate one for many years, adding new features, updating the infrastructure etc. And yet, we're still here, runnning a tight ship and a somewhat useful site.
You are invited to participate by sharing your torrents, wishes and comments on this site, but we ask you to do it while adhering to a simple set of reasonable rules laid out below. You'll see that these rules would appear quite normal for a person gifted with common sense, but operating a public site within a darknet seems to lead some into thinking that the tracker is somehow unregulated or without policy enforcement.

Please read and adhere to the rules and regulations stated here:

2 Content Policy

In general feel free to upload whatever you find interesting or you find might interest others. Most sought after content is: movies and episodes from shows of the various streaming services or TV stations, followed by music, e-books, audio-books, software, games, documentaries and all the rest of it. If you can, include as many lanuage tracks as possible in order to make the torrent appealing to a larger audience.

Legal pornography is accepted too but won't be displayed on the main page by default.

2.1 Banned content

The following content is explicitely NOT ALLOWED. Torrents containing it will be banned/deleted without prior warning. User accounts uploading it will be banned or deleted. If we're in doubt regarding the proper content classification of a torrent we'll ban/delete it as well

1. child porn, underage nude or clothed models. This applies to drawn, rendered or AI generated content of this kind as well.
2. material containing bestality, regardless if "real", drawn, rendered or AI generated
3. explicit depictions of snuff, torture porn, animal cruelty and similar outside of fictional content
4. Software containing malicious code

If you spot such content on the tracker, please report immediately!

2.2 Content under supervision

2.2.1 "Conspiracy" and "Religous Content"

Documentations from "alternative sources", A.I. generated slop announcing the second coming of christ or another UFO landing, ramblings from conspiracy grifters, chemtrail tinfoil-hats and other such entities have to be classified as "Conspiracy" or "Religious Content" based on the topic of the upload. The more meta information and context the uploader provides, the easier it will be for us to decide, whether to reclassify a torrent or not. However, we will re-classify torrents at our own discretion if we find them wrongly categorized or if we receive reports about the categorization or meta-information of a torrent!

Torrents promoting things like religious nuttery, holocaust denial, genocide and racial supremacy are not wanted here either.

2.2.2 Leaked documents

Leaks containing non-public personal information are not allowed, especially if they put the people mentioned at risk! If you upload leaked documents, provide sources and references, include whatever possible to make judgement easier. This rule does not apply, if you're uploading a leak that has already been published elsewhere.

2.2.3 Misc

Uncredited uploads or torrents missing crucial context information will be moved to "Conspiracy" or deleted without further warning. The same goes for empty or bogus torrents, uploads with false advertising or other misleading attributes. Opinion pieces, Op-eds, personal hot-takes, podcasts and interviews will be decided on a case-by-case basis if the categorization by the uploader is deemed fitting by the admin team.

We will certainly not engage in debates about "censorship" and listen to sermons about how it would be our obligation to accept whatever is uploaded and that any moderation attempt would be some kind of infraction on your "holy" rights as anonymous participant here. Furthermore we will whole-heartedly disregard any grandstanding and whiteknighting posts who know exactly what we "should" and "must" do after we made a decision.

3 Metadata policy

3.1 Name, category and description

Users on this site should be able to guess what a torrent is all about by reading its name. So don't call your torrent music.rar. Be clear, be specific, be helpful! Adding the year of release and widespread abbreviations like S2E10 (for series 2, Episode 10) are fine to use. The same goes for information like cinerip, dvdrip, cdrip, bdrip or 4k, FullHD etc to indicate basic quality to expect from the torrent.

Assign the proper category to your torrent. If nothing fits, use "Misc" and send a message to postman with your idea for a new category.

Descriptions are actually quite helpful. At least give the most vital info, a link to a site with more information ( like http://libremdb.catsarch.i2p ), a short hint what's the torrent all about. If you're uploading by API, feel free to include external abstracts of the torrent's content if available.

If there is something noteable about quality or other issues, put it in the description! If there're some caveats because of political statements, commentary or other aspects of the content, put it in the description!

3.2 Extended properties

Extended properties fields are fixed bits of extra information provided by the uploader of a torrent. The extended properties depend on the torrent category. They exist to store technical information (genres, formats, languages, number pages, bitrates etc) in extra database records. They will be regarded during a search operation and can be considered as a first step towards a more advanced tagging system. Please take your time to fill them. If your torrent contains a language not covered by the tracker's language db, please add this language as property

3.3 Torrent organization

You can group torrents of yours into pools. This is an easy way to bring related content to a user's attention. It is advised to pool torrent's of yours in order to group all Seasons or episodes of a show or similar into one entity. Torrent pools can be searched too.

4 Wishes and comments

The wishlist has its own little ruleset displayed at the top of the Wishlist page. That's all to say about it.

If we find comments to be trolling, off-topic or vile, we will delete them, regardless if they are commenting a torrent, pool or wish. That's about it! If you're not able or willing to keep up the facade of decent human being for just one minute, maybe it's better the world does not have to read your message at all. However, we appreciate helpful and insightful comments from anyone who has something to contribute!

5 Final words

We have created a FAQ explaining a few aspects of content moderation and policy enforcement here (This is a markdown file. Use a browser extension or external viewer to render it)

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