Content Policy

1. Who Manyfold is for

Manyfold is a platform for adults, aged 18 and over, who want to write and read branching interactive fiction. It is a place for serious, ambitious, uncomfortable storytelling.

This policy applies to everything you put on Manyfold: story text, titles, abstracts, tags, character names and backstories, uploaded and generated images, audio, your handle, your display name, your avatar, and the instructions you give Spark.

2. What's welcome

Fiction gets to go to dark places. We do not want a sanitised platform, and the following are expressly permitted:

• Graphic violence, gore, and horror.
• Death, grief, illness, and despair.
• Crime, war, abuse, addiction, and self-destruction, portrayed honestly.
• Morally repugnant characters who are never punished by the narrative.
• Strong language throughout.
• Sexual themes, attraction, desire, and relationships between adults — written without explicit depiction.
• Politically, religiously, and philosophically difficult material.
• Endings with no comfort in them.

Depicting something is not endorsing it. A villain may hold views we would never permit as a sincere statement. We read for context.

3. What's prohibited

Child sexual abuse material — zero tolerance

Also prohibited

• Sexually explicit material — see section 4.
• Real-world harm. Credible threats, incitement to violence, or targeted harassment of any real person.
• Hate speech. Content that dehumanises or advocates harm against people on the basis of race, ethnicity, caste, national origin, religion, disability, disease, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation — presented as the work's own sincere position rather than as a depicted character's.
• Glorification of atrocity. Content celebrating genocide, terrorism, or mass violence, or presenting its perpetrators as heroes to emulate.
• Self-harm promotion. Content encouraging suicide, self-injury, or disordered eating, or providing method instructions. Depicting these subjects thoughtfully is permitted; encouraging them is not.
• Dangerous instructions. Genuinely actionable directions for weapons, explosives, drug synthesis, or attacks on infrastructure. Fiction may reference these; it may not function as a manual.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery, including synthetic or "deepfake" imagery of real people.
• Illegal content under Indian law or the law where you or your readers are.
• Infringement. Copyrighted text or images you have no right to use; trademark misuse.
• Impersonation of a real person or organisation, including in handles and avatars.
• Privacy violations. Publishing someone's private information — address, phone number, workplace, identity documents.
• Spam and deception. Bulk unsolicited content, engagement manipulation, scams, phishing, malware, or misleading links.
• Platform abuse. Circumventing bans, running multiple accounts to evade enforcement, or gaming credits or metrics.

4. The line on sexual content

People will want a clearer answer than "tasteful", so here it is.

5. Real people and real events

• Public figures may appear in satire, criticism, and commentary — the ordinary latitude fiction has always had.
• Do not present fiction as a factual account of things a real, identifiable person actually said or did.
• Do not write private individuals into your fiction in a way that identifies them.
• Do not create sexual or intimate content depicting any real person.
• Do not use Manyfold to build a harassment campaign against someone by writing them into a story.

6. Rules for AI generation

Everything in this policy applies identically to content you wrote yourself and content Spark drafted for you. Publishing AI output makes it yours.

• Do not attempt to jailbreak, prompt-inject, or otherwise manipulate Spark into producing prohibited content. Attempts are logged and are themselves a policy violation.
• Do not use reference images of real people to generate their likeness in situations they never consented to.
• Review AI output before publishing. Models occasionally produce material that resembles existing copyrighted work, or that is simply wrong.
• Your use of Spark is additionally subject to Google's Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy.
• Systematically using Spark to generate bulk content for publication elsewhere is outside the intended use of the Service.

7. Labelling and content warnings

Tag your stories honestly. Readers choosing a path deserve to know roughly what they are walking into, and interactive fiction can put a reader somewhere they did not expect with one tap.

• Use tags that reflect the actual content, not just the ones that attract readers.
• Where a story deals with suicide, self-harm, sexual violence, or abuse, say so in the abstract.
• Do not use a misleading title, cover, or abstract to lure readers into content they did not choose.

8. How to report content

If you see something that breaks this policy:

• In the app — open the story or profile, tap the ⋯ menu, and choose Report. Tell us which rule was broken.
• By email — support@manyfold.co.in, with a link to the content and a short description.
• Urgent safety concerns — anything involving child sexual abuse material or a credible threat to someone's life: email support@manyfold.co.in with URGENT in the subject line. These are triaged ahead of everything else. If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.

You can also block a user from their profile, which removes them from your feed and prevents them following you.

We acknowledge reports within 72 hours and aim to resolve them within 7 days. Reports involving child safety are actioned immediately. Deliberately false reports are themselves a violation.

9. How we enforce

Manyfold is operated by one person. We do not pretend to run proactive human review of every story. Enforcement is report-driven, supported by automated checks on AI generation, and we would rather be honest about that than imply a moderation team that does not exist.

When we act, we weigh the severity of the breach, whether it looks deliberate, the account's history, and the context of the work. Proportionate responses include:

Except where a delay would cause harm, we tell you what was removed and which rule it broke. Unused credits are not refunded when an account is terminated for a policy breach.

10. Appeals

If you believe we got it wrong, reply to the enforcement email or write to support@manyfold.co.in with APPEAL in the subject line, within 30 days. Explain why the decision was mistaken. We will review and respond within 14 days, and we will say plainly whether we changed our mind.

Bans for child sexual abuse material are not appealable.

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