2.1 How to report

Every profile, release, and launch party has a Report button. You can report:

• A specific behavior or piece of content with a category (harassment, impersonation, hate speech, illegal content, doxxing, defamation, other)
• A free-text description with whatever context you can provide
• Supporting evidence (URLs, screenshots, audio clips, video clips) up to 5 attachments; accepted formats include PNG, JPG, MP3, MP4, M4A, WAV

2.2 What we commit to

Trusted flaggers (see 7.6) get fast-track triage but never auto-action.

2.3 What we do NOT do

• We do not act automatically on reports. Every decision is made by a human moderator.
• We check the context for every decision: account history, coordinated patterns, anti-coordination signals. The 48-hour triage SLA is for this check; it is not a delay we add to manual investigation.
• We do not reveal the identity of the reporter to the person reported, except where required by law.
• We do not engage in public commentary on individual moderation decisions.

3.1 Harassment of an individual

Behavior that targets an identifiable person on the platform. Three patterns qualify:

• Repeated acts against the same person, regardless of medium (profile bio, release descriptions, party chat, track lyrics, follow-spam, profile or release artwork, etc.)
• Single act when coordinated with others (raid scenario, even a one-time pile-on)
• Single act against a vulnerable person (notably a minor, a person known to be in psychological distress, etc.)

Examples:

• Following an artist's followers to send them messages about that artist
• Releasing tracks naming an artist after that artist has asked you to stop
• Coordinating with others to attack a specific person, including coordination organized off-platform with effects on SynthCamp
• Using images of an individual as profile or release artwork to target them
• Encouraging followers to harass a person ("you should DM them") even without personally attacking

These standards apply to every existing surface AND any future surface that allows user-to-user written content (tip messages, fan-hosted parties, future comments, etc.).

Legal basis: Code pénal art. 222-33-2-2 (cyber-harcèlement). Base sentence 2 years and €30,000 fine; up to 3 years and €45,000 with aggravating circumstances (minors under 15, vulnerable persons, group action / raid).

3.2 Defamation and insult

• Defamation: a false factual claim about a named or clearly identifiable person that damages their reputation. Truth is a defense; opinion is not defamation.
• Insult:a public attack on a person that is not a factual claim ("X is a fraud" without specifics).

Legal basis: Loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presse (art. 29 and following).

3.3 Impersonation

Using another person's name, slug, avatar, banner, or bio content in a way that, taken together, could deceive a reasonable listener into thinking you are them or speaking for them. Imitating a vocal style or a production signature alone is not impersonation; combined with name/avatar copying and a deceptive intent, it becomes one.

Parody is allowed under strict conditions (see 4.2).

Legal basis: Code pénal art. 226-4-1 (usurpation of identity, up to 1 year imprisonment and €15,000 fine).

3.4 Coordinated inauthentic behavior

• Operating multiple accounts to amplify a position, manipulate moderation, or target individuals
• Creating fake "victim" or "supporter" accounts to manufacture sympathy or social proof
• Buying or trading followers, plays, or tips
• Using bots to interact with the platform

Side projects are allowed if they are clearly distinct creative endeavors. Multiple accounts used to evade a ban, to amplify yourself, or to engineer narratives are not.

Off-platform coordination is in scopewhen its effect lands on SynthCamp. "We'll all drop attack tracks Friday" planned on Discord and executed here is sanctioned as if the coordination had happened in our chat.

Legal basis: deceptive commercial practice under UCPD (Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, transposed into French Code de la consommation art. L121-1 and following).

3.5 Hate speech

Targeting an individual or group based on a protected category. The protected categories are those listed at Code pénal art. 132-77 and art. 225-1, which include:

• Origin (origine), race, ethnicity, nationality
• Religion or absence of religion
• Sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation
• Disability (handicap)
• Health condition (état de santé)
• Age, including minors as a specially vulnerable category
• Particular economic vulnerability (situation économique particulière, per loi 2016-1547)
• Loss of autonomy (perte d'autonomie)

This includes lyrics, profile content, party chat, and any other form of expression on the platform.

Legal basis:Loi du 1er juillet 1972 (race + religion); loi du 30 décembre 2004 (sex, sexual orientation, disability); loi 2016-1547 (situation économique); loi 2017-86 (perte d'autonomie); Code pénal art. 132-77 and 225-1 for the consolidated list; DSA obligations on illegal-content baseline.

3.6 Illegal content

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
• Non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII, "revenge porn")
• Credible threats of physical or sexual violence
• Terror-promoting content
• Content infringing on third-party copyright or trademark

This content results in immediate permanent ban and, where appropriate, referral to law enforcement.

Terror-promoting content removed within 1 hour when flagged by a competent authority pursuant to EU Regulation 2021/784 (TCO). This SLA overrides the general 24h/48h/7d framework in section 2.2.

Legal basis: French Code pénal; EU DSA art. 16; EU Regulation 2021/784 (TCO); national child-protection law.

3.7 Doxxing and private data exposure

Revealing or sharing private personal information about another person without consent. This covers both:

• Classical doxxing:home address, phone number, employer, civil identity, financial information, family members' details
• Outing:revealing the civil identity behind an artist's stage persona, when the artist has chosen to keep them separate

Doxxing results in immediate permanent ban, regardless of strike count.

Legal basis: GDPR (unauthorized processing of personal data), Code pénal art. 226-22.

3.8 Synthetic voice and likeness of identifiable persons

SynthCamp's Creative Credits framework explicitly accepts AI-crafted music. That makes voice cloning and likeness synthesis available, and that means a clear rule is required:

• Cloning the voice of an identifiable person without their consent is not allowed. This includes named artists, public figures, and any private individual recognizable from the cloned voice.
• Likeness deepfakes(visual or audio) that put words, performances, or actions into a real person's mouth or image without consent are not allowed.
• Sexualized deepfakes of any identifiable person, regardless of consent claim, are immediate permanent ban under section 7.2.
• Consensual voice / likeness collaborations (e.g., a credited "feat. [Artist]" where the artist agreed and signed off) are allowed.

Legal basis:droit à l'image vocale (Cass. 1ère civ. 24 avril 2013); from August 2026, Code pénal art. 226-8-1 introduced by loi SREN punishes non-consensual deepfakes with 1 year and €15,000 (doubled to 2 years and €30,000 when the content is sexual); GDPR (voice and likeness are biometric data); droit d'auteur on the underlying performance.

4.1 Critical artistic discussion

Always allowed. You can:

• Criticize music, scenes, trends, movements, production styles
• Review releases and post your opinion of them
• Reference other artists' work in commentary or analysis
• Sample or remix where licensing or fair use allows

The line moves when criticism stops being about the work and starts being about the person, particularly when the person is a private individual or a named individual under attack.

4.2 Parody profiles

Parody is a legally protected form of expression in France (article L122-5 4° CPI). On SynthCamp it is allowed under all of these conditions:

• The display name must explicitly include "(Parody)" or "(Fan account)" or equivalent
• The bio must include a clear disclaimer: "This is a parody / fan account. Original artist: @originalslug"
• The avatar must be visibly distinct from the original artist's avatar (no copying)
• The parody must be aimed at a public figure (an artist with significant public presence, a public official, etc.). Parody profiles of private individuals are not allowed
• The content of the parody must not contain false factual claims dressed as satire (calling someone a thief or abuser as a "joke" is still defamation)

Failure to meet these conditions results in profile takedown on report. Egregious cases (parody designed to defame or coordinate harassment) trigger sanctions per section 7.

Parody of a stage persona whose real identity is unknown: allowed if the conditions above are met against the stage persona. The protection does not extend to revealing the real identity behind the persona ("outing"), which remains a doxxing violation under 3.7 regardless of the parody framing.

4.3 Diss tracks (named individuals)

Tracks that name or visibly target an identifiable individual are not allowed on SynthCamp, with three narrow exceptions:

1. Consent: the named individual has explicitly consented (e.g., a collaboration tag-team track, a public response track agreed between artists)
2. Substantive critique of a public-position-engagement: ALL of the following must hold simultaneously:
   • The named individual is a public figure (per the quantification in 5.1)
   • The named individual has publicly engaged the specific debate the track responds to (a public release, a public statement, a public artistic posture they themselves named)
   • The track contains zero personal attack, zero mockery, zero ridicule
   • The track makes no factual claim about the person beyond what they have publicly stated
   • The track's argument is substantive (i.e., would stand as critique even if the name were swapped for a generic descriptor)
3. Hommage / sample credit / collaboration mentions (positive context)

A track that meets the form of exception 2 but reads as a personal attack to a reasonable listener falls back to the prohibition.

In particular, the following are not allowed regardless of context:

• Insults, mockery, or ridicule directed at a named individual
• False factual claims about a named individual (defamation in musical form)
• Threats or calls for harassment
• Doxxing in lyrics or release metadata
• Tracks that target private individuals (regardless of intent)
• Reaction tracks where the target is identifiable to a reasonable listener even without being named. A track released within 48 hours of another artist's release, with cover art evoking that artist, lyrics referencing specific elements of that release, or audio sampling without credit, is treated as a named-target track. Naming is not required for identification.

Why this strict line: the cost of producing AI-generated content is near zero, which weaponizes the traditional diss-track form into industrial harassment. SynthCamp does not host that.

Practical test for moderators: if you remove the name of the targeted person, does the track still have artistic standing? If no, the track is a vehicle for targeting a person rather than a work.

Critique of music, of scenes, of trends, of movements, of public statements without naming individuals remains welcome.

4.4 Critical discussion of platforms (including SynthCamp)

You may publicly criticize SynthCamp itself, our policies, our team, on this platform or any other. We do not sanction users for criticism of the platform.

5.1 Public figure

An artist with significant public presence, a public official, a journalist or critic engaging publicly on artistic matters, or any person who has voluntarily entered public discourse on a topic.

"Significant public presence" is not purely judgment. Our moderation team uses a documented working floor with multiple indicators:

• A follower count above a threshold set by the moderation team (currently a four-figure order of magnitude, adjusted as the platform scales)
• Coverage in mainstream press or industry outlets
• A self-declared public role in the artist's profile bio (e.g., "industry consultant", "music journalist")
• Sustained public discourse on a specific topic (multiple public posts, releases, or statements)

The totality of indicators is weighed; an artist with 500 followers who has just published a widely-discussed manifesto is a public figure for the topic of that manifesto, though not necessarily for unrelated matters.

Public figures must accept a higher level of critique on their public role. Criticism of an artist's work, posture, or publicly-stated opinions is broadly protected.

5.2 Private individual

Anyone else. A fan, a person from your past, a non-public artist, anyone who has not voluntarily entered public discourse.

Criticism of private individuals is much more restricted. Targeting a private individual by name, even with truthful criticism, can constitute harassment.

5.3 The principle

Public figures forfeit privacy on their public role, not on their person, family, or life outside that role. Critique of the work, yes. Personal attacks dressed as critique, no.

5.4 Minors (15-17 year-old creators)

The minimum age to create an account on SynthCamp, including an artist account, is 15, the digital consent age in France (Loi 78-17, art. 7-1), consistent with our Terms and Privacy Notice. Artists in the 15-17 bracket get heightened protections aligned with DSA art. 28:

• Reports involving a minor as a target are auto-fast-tracked to top of the moderation queue
• Sanctions on violators are uplifted one tier from our standard graduated response (e.g., what would be a first-strike warning becomes a 7-day suspension when the target is a minor)
• Doxxing or sexualized deepfake content involving a minor is treated as immediate permanent ban with reporting to law enforcement
• Profile defaults for minor accounts: search visibility off, followers list private, party hosting requires explicit moderator clearance

These protections apply whether the minor is a target of misconduct or a witness present in a setting (e.g., a listening party where harassment occurs in chat).

6.1 Block

You can block any other user. Blocking hides their content from your view across the platform (profile, releases, parties, chat) and prevents them from interacting with you (tipping, replies, mentions if we add them later).

The blocked user is not notified.

6.2 Mute

A softer version of block. Hides the user's content from your feed but does not break direct interaction (they can still buy your releases, for example).

6.3 Privacy settings

You can control:

• Whether your followers list is publicly visible
• Whether you appear in search results for users who do not follow you
• Whether you receive email notifications

6.4 Account freeze

In urgent cases, you can freeze your account: pause all notifications, disable party hosting, hide your profile from non-followers. Use it as a panic button while you assess your situation; you can un-freeze at any time.

7.1 Graduated response - three strikes, rolling lifetime

We use rolling lifetime accounting: a violation from two years ago still counts. If you have been here a long time without sanctions, this is a non-issue. If you accumulate, the past is not forgotten. (See section 11 for the retention rationale and CNIL alignment.)

During a suspension (strike 2 or 3):

• The artist's active launch parties are cancelled at the moment of sanction; ticketed attendees receive a refund notification and a statement of reasons referencing this section.
• The artist's follower relationships are preserved. When the suspension lifts, followers are silently re-engaged.
• Tip flows to the artist are paused for the duration of the suspension.

At permanent ban (strike 4 or immediate-ban):

• Followers are retained for 180 days in case of appeal-driven reinstatement; after 180 days they are released.
• Active parties are cancelled with refunds.
• Profile is retired (removed from search and from the public catalog).

7.2 Immediate-ban offenses (no strikes needed)

Some violations result in immediate permanent ban on first confirmation:

• CSAM, NCII
• Credible threats of physical or sexual violence
• Doxxing (including outing) of any person
• Coordinated harassment campaigns (multi-account coordinated targeting)
• Sustained hate speech against protected categories
• Manifest identity usurpation with intent to defraud or defame

7.3 Statement of reasons (DSA art. 17)

Every sanction is accompanied by an email to the sanctioned user that includes:

• Date of decision
• The specific content or behavior cited, with quote or URL
• The rule violated, linked to the relevant section of these standards
• The action taken (warning, suspension, ban) and its duration
• The link to file an appeal
• The deadline to file an appeal (6 months from the decision date)

Where the sanction follows a report, the reporting user is also notified of the outcome (without seeing the internal moderation notes).

7.4 Appeals (DSA art. 20)

Every sanction can be appealed within 6 months of the decision date.

• Submit your appeal at /account/appeals with your reasoning and any new evidence
• Acknowledgment within 48 hours
• Triage and decision by a different moderator than the original decision-maker when possible
• Final decision within 7 days, with a written statement of reasons

The appeal can result in: maintain decision, reduce sanction, fully reverse decision. We aim for thoughtful review over speed; if a case is complex we will extend the timeline with a written notice.

7.5 Out-of-court dispute resolution (DSA art. 21)

If your internal appeal is rejected and you wish to pursue the matter further, you have the right under the EU Digital Services Act to refer the dispute to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body in your member state.

We will participate in good faith with any such body if you initiate a procedure. We do not nominate a specific body in this document; consult your national digital services coordinator for the current list of certified bodies in your jurisdiction.

7.6 Priority flaggers (and how this differs from DSA art. 22 trusted flaggers)

Two distinct concepts apply here, often confused:

DSA art. 22 trusted flaggers are entities (typically organizations, not individual users) recognized by the Digital Services Coordinator (DSC) of an EU member state, not by the platform. SynthCamp respects every notice from a recognized DSA trusted flagger with priority handling, as the regulation requires. We do not award DSA trusted flagger status ourselves; the DSC does.

SynthCamp Priority Flaggers are individual users we have manually designated as having a strong track record of accurate, good-faith reporting. Their reports get priority position in our internal queue. This program is distinct from DSA art. 22 and we do not claim it confers DSA trusted flagger status.

Priority flagger status is:

• Awarded manually by our moderation team, never automatically
• Revocable immediately on first abuse (false reports, weaponizing the status to silence rivals)
• Audited periodically with full transparency to all moderators
• A priority signal only, never an automatic action: priority flaggers report, they never decide

There is no fast-track to priority flagger status. Time on the platform, accuracy of past reports, and clean conduct record are the inputs we consider; final discretion is the moderation team's.

7.7 Co-credited works when one collaborator is sanctioned

When a release lists multiple credited artists and one of them is suspended or banned:

• If the sanctioned content is intrinsic to the release (e.g., the offending material is in the sanctioned artist's verse, the parody framing carries the release, the deepfake voice is the headline element), the release is unlisted from the public catalog. Existing buyers retain their access. Revenue from new sales is paused.
• If the sanctioned content is separablefrom the release (e.g., the sanctioned artist contributed production credit but the offending behavior is unrelated, off-platform), the release stays public. The non-sanctioned collaborators keep their revenue share. The sanctioned artist's share is held in escrow per the suspension rules in 7.1.
• At permanent ban, the sanctioned artist's credit on the release is removed from the public credit list; the release is re-rendered without the credit. The revenue share for that credit is forfeited to the platform's compliance reserve.

Co-credited collaborators are notified by email when one of their collaborators is sanctioned, with the rule cited and a path to dispute if they believe the sanction affects them unfairly.

Retention of moderation history

Moderation history retention is two-tier, matching our Moderation Policy (section 9): actioned decisions (sanctions, statements of reasons, appeals) are kept for as long as the account exists plus ten years after closure; unactioned reports are kept for three years. The ten-year tier aligns with our records-of-processing and accountability obligations (GDPR art. 30, DSA art. 24) and the general civil prescription (art. 2224 of the Code civil). The rationale for retention beyond account closure is defense against potential litigation initiated by a former user or by a third party affected by a former user's conduct.

Users may request erasure of their moderation history under GDPR art. 17. Where granted, the underlying facts of the sanction (date, category, action taken) are retained in pseudonymized form for our transparency reporting obligations under DSA art. 24, but the personal data attached is erased.

The rolling lifetime accounting described in section 7.1 applies within this retention window: a violation from two years ago counts; a violation from a closed account whose history has aged out of the retention window above no longer does.