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Community guidelines

Short version: it's about the dogs, every photo is reviewed, and your dog is yours.

Posting photos

• Your dog, your photo. When you post, you attest the dog is yours and you took or own the photo.
• Review before public. Every photo passes a content review before it appears anywhere public. Dogs only — no people as the subject, nothing unsafe, nothing that isn't a dog photo.
• Keep it kind. The joke on Brachys is always the voter's bias, never someone's dog. Our own voice never calls any dog ugly, and neither should yours.

Reporting, blocking, and takedowns

• Report anything. Every public photo and profile carries a report option, reviewed by a human.
• Block anyone. Blocking hides a user's content from you everywhere, immediately.
• Takedowns. If a photo of your dog was posted without your permission, or you want your own content removed — including a champion entry — it comes down. A removed champion entry shows as "retired by owner" so the record stays honest.

Voting

• Play to vote. Voting unlocks with real play. Vote-buying, bot accounts, and coordinated manipulation forfeit entries and accounts.
• Campaigning is welcome. Rallying friends to join and vote for your pup is the whole point — as long as they genuinely join and play.