YOFUKA

YOFUKA Community Policy

YOFUKA is a curated window into fandom — and a home you come back to.

The feed is the center of gravity. It's a digital konbini for anime, games, manga, and Japanese pop culture: stocked, open, reliable. Around that feed, YOFUKA is also *yours* — your saves, your lists, the sources you follow, the people you follow, the things you repost. You should feel at home when you open it.

This policy exists so "home" stays a place worth returning to. Two commitments shape every rule below:

1. Vertical scope. YOFUKA is about anime, games, manga, and Japanese pop culture. That's the whole beat. 2. Politics-free. Political content does not belong here — not in the feed, not in comments, not in lists, not in profiles. This is a product-level promise, not a mild guideline. We enforce it at ingest, at user-submitted sources, and across all user-generated content.

We don't moderate for tone. We moderate for scope and respect. Snark, strong opinions, and arguing about the Attack on Titan ending are fine. Calling another user a slur is not. Saying a game is bad is fine. Saying a dev team deserves to be harassed is not.

Scope

What YOFUKA covers:

  • Anime — series, films, OVAs, industry news, studios, voice actors, reviews, fan art, cosplay.
  • Games — Japanese and Japan-adjacent games: JRPGs, visual novels, fighting games, indies, console news, anime-adapted games, fan content.
  • Manga — series, publishers, scanlation conversations (within reason), mangaka news, art, fan work.
  • Japanese pop culture broadly — idols, vocaloid, doujin culture, tokusatsu, J-dramas and films with crossover fandom appeal, fandom conventions, otaku-adjacent lifestyle content.

What's out of scope:

  • General world news, politics, sports, finance, crypto, tech-industry drama.
  • Western pop culture that isn't connected to the fandom beat (Marvel-only, Hollywood-only, mainstream Western TV with no anime/manga adjacency).
  • Off-topic personal blogs.

When we retire a source or reject a submission for being off-topic, it isn't a judgment on the source — it just isn't YOFUKA's beat.

Not welcome

These things are not allowed anywhere on YOFUKA — comments, lists, profile bios, source submissions, usernames:

  • Politics. Partisan advocacy, election content, political-movement recruitment, hot-take culture-war material. Applies whether you're posting it about Japan, the US, or anywhere else. If a post's primary purpose is political, it doesn't belong here.
  • Harassment. Targeting another user. Brigading. Pile-ons. Sustained hostility. This includes harassing publishers, creators, and public figures — "they're famous, it doesn't count" is not a defense.
  • Hate. Slurs, dehumanizing content, or content targeting people based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality. No exceptions, no ironic framing.
  • Doxxing. Real names, addresses, workplaces, or any other identifying information about anyone — other users, creators, industry figures — without their explicit public consent.
  • NSFW outside tagged contexts. Sexual content, graphic violence, or otherwise mature fan work must be appropriately tagged where the platform supports tagging, and is never permitted in profile avatars, list names/descriptions, usernames, or comment threads on general-audience posts.
  • Spam. Repetitive posting, scams, link farms, crypto/NFT promotion, follower-farming patterns.
  • Commercial self-promotion. YOFUKA is not a marketing channel. Creators posting their own work occasionally is fine; accounts that exist primarily to advertise something aren't.
  • Unlabeled AI-generated content. AI art, AI-written summaries, and AI-generated commentary must be disclosed. Labeled AI content is fine where on-topic; slop passed off as human isn't.
  • Illegal content. Content illegal under US law (where YOFUKA is hosted). This includes CSAM — zero tolerance, immediate permanent ban, law enforcement referral.

Comments

Commenting is a Yofuka+ feature (subscription, launching in Phase 3). Reading comments is free forever. Writing them requires either an active Yofuka+ subscription or Founding Member status.

Rules for comments:

  • 280 characters max. Comments are short by design.
  • One level of threading. You can reply to a top-level comment, but not to a reply-to-a-reply. Deep threads invite bad incentives; we're not building them.
  • On topic. A comment on an Attack on Titan piece should be about Attack on Titan, anime, the publisher, or adjacent fandom discussion. Not current politics, not off-topic drama.
  • Respect the human across the table. You can disagree hard. You can't dehumanize.

Like / dislike brigading

Comments have both like and dislike reactions. We want honest signal, not pile-ons. Pre-committed enforcement rule:

  • If a single comment picks up ≥5 downvotes from accounts less than 30 days old within 1 hour, it's auto-flagged for admin review. The comment itself is not auto-hidden — flagged for a human to look at.
  • If 3 such brigading incidents occur platform-wide in a rolling 30-day window, the public UI switches to like-only. Dislikes remain in the database as an internal quality signal, but they're no longer user-facing.
  • If brigading persists after that switch, dislikes are removed from the data model entirely.

This rule is stated upfront so nobody is negotiating it in a fire drill.

Source submissions

Yofuka+ subscribers and Founding Members can submit new content sources. Submissions go into a queue and an admin reviews each one. To be approved, a source must:

  • Be on-topic — anime / games / manga / Japanese pop culture.
  • Be politics-free. A source that mixes fandom content with political takes will be rejected. We don't need the whole bundle.
  • Post at least weekly. Dormant feeds aren't useful; we'd rather keep the shelf thin and hot.
  • Respect the publisher's own ToS. We link out — we don't scrape. Feeds that exist to republish someone else's paywalled content won't be approved.
  • Be the publisher's canonical feed or a reasonable stand-in. No shady mirrors.

Rejections come with a reason. You can submit again after fixing the issue.

Lists

Users can curate lists of feed items. Free tier: 3 lists. Yofuka+: unlimited.

  • List names and descriptions must be on-topic and politics-free, same as everything else. "Best mecha openings of the 2010s" — great. Political slogans as list titles — no.
  • Public lists are subject to the full community policy. Anything on a public list can be reported.
  • Private lists are only bound by the illegal-content rule. What you privately bookmark is your business; we won't police your private organization, but we also won't host CSAM, actual doxxing dossiers, or other illegal material under the "but it's private" banner.

Reports

See something that breaks this policy? Report it.

  • How: every reportable surface (comments once they ship, lists, users, source submissions) will have a "Report" action. Pick the target, write a short reason (up to 280 characters), submit.
  • What happens: the report goes into an admin queue. An admin reviews, then either dismisses it (no action) or actions it (hide a comment, reject a submission, suspend a user, etc.). Every resolution is logged.
  • Expected response window: 48 hours. YOFUKA has a single admin (Brian) during the founding era; response times will tighten as moderation scales.
  • What reports are for: policy violations. Not for "I disagree with this take." If you don't like a comment, downvote it and move on.
  • Abuse of the report system: spamming reports on content that isn't actually violating the policy counts as a policy violation itself.

Moderation actions

When a report (or direct admin observation) results in action, the admin can:

  • Hide a comment — removed from public view; the author is notified.
  • Suspend a user — temporary (with an explicit end date) or indefinite (admin lifts manually). Suspended users can still read but cannot post, comment, react, or submit.
  • Reject a source submission — with a reason sent to the submitter.
  • Remove a list — for public lists that violate this policy. Private lists are only removed for illegal content.
  • Ban — in the case of illegal content or repeated severe violations, the account is permanently banned.

Every action creates an audit log entry (actor, target, timestamp, note). That log exists so moderation stays accountable, not capricious.

Appeals

If you think an action was wrong, email contact@yofuka.com with:

  • Your username
  • What action was taken
  • Why you think it was wrong

One admin means appeals are answered by the same person who made the call, which isn't ideal, but we'd rather be transparent about that than pretend otherwise. As YOFUKA grows, the moderation team will too.

Suspensions and paid membership

This is important, so it's stated plainly:

A suspension forfeits the remainder of any active Yofuka+ term without refund.

If you pay for a year of Yofuka+ and then violate this policy in a way that earns a suspension, your subscription does not resume when the suspension ends, and the prorated remainder is not refunded. This applies to both monthly and annual plans.

Repeat offenders on a paid plan lose paid access entirely. A second serious violation while subscribed results in loss of Yofuka+ status in addition to the suspension itself.

We are being upfront about this so nobody is surprised. Don't think of Yofuka+ as a license to be shitty — it's a membership in a community, and the community's rules apply to you more, not less.

Founding Members

Early supporters (roughly the first cohort who joined before the paid tier went live) are grandfathered as Founding Members. This comes with a lifetime free commenting privilege and a badge on profile.

Founding Member status is not a get-out-of-policy-free card. The same rules apply — if anything, more visibly, because Founding accounts carry the early-era identity of the platform. A policy violation can revoke Founding status along with whatever other action is taken. No pay-to-offend loopholes, no grandfathered-rudeness loopholes.

Founding Member status also decays after 2 years of login inactivity — both the badge and the free-commenting privilege expire. On return, the account becomes a normal user; you can subscribe or earn comped time through referrals.

Contact

  • Appeals and moderation questions: contact@yofuka.com
  • Product feedback, bugs, feature requests: GitHub issues or in-app feedback (once available).
  • Security issues: contact@yofuka.com — please don't open a public issue for security problems.

Changes to this policy

This document evolves. Minor clarifications happen quietly. Material changes — new prohibited categories, shifts in enforcement thresholds, changes to how appeals work — will be announced on the site when they happen. The version of this policy in effect at the time of a given action is the one that applies to that action; we don't retroactively punish under new rules.

If a rule here is unclear, that's a bug. Email contact@yofuka.com and we'll sort it out.