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Community guidelines.

Effective: April 29, 2026 Last updated: April 29, 2026

Why this page exists

Yumefumi is an editorial product. Every day we make decisions about what gets featured, what gets removed, who gets a curator badge. Decisions like that add up. They quietly shape what readers see and which writers feel welcome. This page is the public commitment that bounds how we use that influence.

It is binding on us first, then on readers. A reader who breaks a rule loses the benefit of these rules; ContentCrepe staff who break this commitment lose the trust that made Yumefumi worth building.

This is a living document. Substantive changes are version-stamped at the bottom and announced on the site.

Our principles

  1. Editorial neutrality on opinion. A negative review of a beloved VN stays up. A negative review of a ContentCrepe game stays up. A review the editorial team disagrees with stays up. We don't remove writing because we disagree with its conclusion. We remove writing only when it violates one of the specific rules below.

  2. Transparency on action. Every removal carries a reason the affected user can read. Every ban carries a reason. Every curator suspension is logged in an internal audit trail. We publish an annual transparency report summarizing moderation activity in aggregate.

  3. Due process. Severe actions (ban, content removal, curator revocation) come with a stated reason and an appeal path. Mistakes happen; they should be cheap to fix.

  4. Permanence of fair work. A review that met the rules when it was published stays up for as long as Yumefumi operates. We don't quietly purge old writing to clean up the catalog.

  5. Conflict-of-interest separation. ContentCrepe (which makes VNs) cannot influence editorial decisions on Yumefumi. The publisher firewall is on the Publisher Picks page; this principle is its enforcement on the moderation side.

  6. Equal rules for everyone. Curators don't get exemption from these rules. ContentCrepe staff don't get exemption. The CEO of ContentCrepe doesn't get exemption.

What we will not remove

The following are explicitly protected. We will not remove a piece of content because it falls into these categories:

  • Negative reviews of any VN. Including titles published by ContentCrepe, titles featured in Publisher Picks, and titles by curators.
  • Critical reviews of producers, studios, translators, voice actors, or other industry figures, when the criticism is factual or clearly opinion. The bounds (defamation, harassment of an individual) are listed in What we will remove.
  • Reviews disliked by Yumefumi staff. A review whose conclusion offends the editorial team is exactly the review we promise to keep up.
  • Reviews critical of curators or moderators.
  • Reviews critical of Yumefumi itself, including this site's editorial decisions, design choices, business model, pricing, or moderation actions.
  • Spoiler-tagged content properly flagged. A reader who clicks past a spoiler mask to see what they were warned about does not get to retroactively remove the review.
  • Adult content properly age-gated. A review of an 18+ title is allowed to engage with the title's themes within the age gate.
  • Niche, contrarian, or unfashionable opinions on a VN. If the rules don't forbid it and the review is otherwise within bounds, it stays.
  • Older reviews from previous tier states. A reader who lapses to Free or stops paying does not lose the reviews they already published. Those reviews remain visible in their public form. Account deletion is a separate matter. That's a user action and it takes the user's content with it; see Permanence of fair work below.

What we will remove

The following will be removed (or hidden, or have the offending portions edited out, depending on the case). These are the only categories.

  • Illegal content under U.S. federal law. CSAM, content depicting minors in sexualized contexts (including drawn or generated content as defined by 18 U.S.C. §2256), real-person sexual content, real-person doxxing, credible threats of violence, content that violates applicable U.S. federal law.
  • Targeted harassment of identifiable individuals. Personal attacks on a specific reader, curator, moderator, or non-public industry figure. Criticism of public-figure professional work is allowed; harassment of a person is not.
  • Defamation in the legal sense. False factual claims about an identifiable person or company that cause harm. Note: opinion is not defamation, and a strongly-worded opinion is not a false factual claim.
  • Spam. Commercial spam, link-farming, content posted at automated rates, content unrelated to the VN it's posted on, repeated content posted to manipulate ranking signals.
  • Off-topic content. A review of a Pizza Hut on a VN page is off-topic. A review of a different VN posted to the wrong page is off-topic.
  • Impersonation. Posing as another reader, curator, industry figure, or Yumefumi staff.
  • Content posted to circumvent a prior moderation action. Re-posting removed content under a new account. Ban evasion.
  • Court-ordered or DMCA-required removals. When required by law to remove specific content, we remove it. The Legal compliance section below details the process.
  • Content that breaks the platform. Content engineered to exploit XSS, search-poison the typeahead, or otherwise interfere with site infrastructure.

Spoilers and adult content

Spoilers and adult content are gated, not removed. A review with heavy spoilers stays public; the spoiler-aware system masks it for readers who haven't progressed. Adult content stays catalogued; the age gate controls who sees the cover.

Authors are responsible for tagging accurately. Untagged spoilers in a review of a VN whose plot is well-known (e.g. a five-year-old release) are different from untagged spoilers in a week-old release. We err toward the author's framing but step in if the failure to tag looks deliberate.

Roles and authority

  • Admins (currently ContentCrepe staff). Hold the highest moderation authority. Can remove content, ban accounts, modify catalog entries. All admin actions are logged to an append-only audit trail.
  • Moderators. Lower-trust user-content moderation role. Can lock threads and hide individual reviews / posts pending review. Cannot ban accounts, cannot pin or delete threads, cannot modify catalog entries. Moderator status is admin-granted.
  • Curators. An editorial role. Curators author reviews, route maps, and content advisories. They do not have moderation authority. A curator's opinion in a review carries the same weight as any other reader's; a curator's role gives them visibility, not power over other readers.

The same person may hold multiple roles. When a moderator or admin authors a review, that review is subject to the same rules as any reader's review.

Conflicts of interest

When a moderation action involves the moderator's own work, a different moderator handles it. When a curator reviews a VN they have a personal stake in (worked on, financially benefits from), disclosure is required in the review itself. ContentCrepe staff are recused from moderation actions on reviews of ContentCrepe games. Those actions go to non-ContentCrepe admins, or if no such admin is available, the action waits.

Appeals

If your content was removed, your account was suspended, or your curator status was revoked, you can appeal:

  • Reply to the moderation notification email, or write to support@yumefumi.com with the subject line "appeal".
  • Include the URL of the removed content (or the affected account) and a short statement of why you believe the action was incorrect.
  • A different admin from the one who took the action will review.
  • We aim to respond within 5 business days. Severe actions (account ban, curator revocation) get priority.

If you disagree with the appeal outcome, the formal next step is the dispute process in Terms of Service §16 (informal resolution → arbitration).

Legal compliance

We follow U.S. federal law and Delaware state law as a Delaware-domiciled LLC. Specifically:

  • DMCA. Copyright takedown notices follow the process in Terms §11. Counter-notices are accepted and processed.
  • Court orders. When a court of competent jurisdiction orders removal of specific content, we comply. Where permitted by the order, we notify the affected user.
  • Foreign-jurisdiction takedowns. A takedown request from a non-U.S. authority is evaluated under U.S. law. We do not voluntarily remove content that is legal in the United States to satisfy a request from a jurisdiction whose definition of "illegal" is different.
  • Section 230. As a U.S. interactive computer service, we rely on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for protection from liability for user-posted content. Editorial decisions on hosted content are protected by Section 230(c)(2).
  • Age gate. Adult content is gated by self-attestation. The threshold (18+) and the gate itself are non-negotiable for content rated 18+.
  • Privacy law (GDPR, CCPA, and equivalents). Detailed in the Privacy Policy. Moderation actions never involve sharing identifying user data with third parties beyond what those laws require.

Transparency

We commit to:

  • A reason for every removal. The affected author can see why their content was removed.
  • An annual transparency report. Aggregate counts of removals by category, ban actions, curator suspensions, DMCA notices received, and government takedown requests received. Published every year on this site, no later than 60 days after the end of the reporting year.
  • Audit log retention. Moderation events are retained for at least 2 years. The audit log is internal but available to subjects of those events on request via support@yumefumi.com.
  • Public disclosure of major policy changes. Substantive edits to this page get a banner on the site, an email to the affected user base, and a 30-day notice window when the change involves new restrictions on existing user content.

Permanence of fair work

This is the strongest commitment on this page.

A review that met the rules when it was published stays public for as long as the author wants it up and Yumefumi operates. We do not remove it because the editorial team disagrees with it, the author lapsed to a lower tier, the platform's brand has shifted, a publisher has objected, or any other reason short of those listed in What we will remove.

The author's own right comes first. You can archive or delete any review you wrote at any time from the review page itself or from your drafts. You can delete your account from /settings, which removes your reviews along with the rest of your data. Permanence is for your work, not against your will. This commitment binds Yumefumi, not the writer.

What we can't do. If your account is compromised and an attacker deletes content before you regain control, we cannot restore it. Backups exist for disaster recovery (encrypted, 30-day rotation per the Privacy Policy) and are not a per-user undelete tool. If you suspect your account has been compromised, write to support@yumefumi.com right away. We'll lock the account and work with you to recover access, but content the attacker already deleted is gone.

If Yumefumi is acquired, sold, or wound down, this commitment carries forward. A new owner inheriting Yumefumi inherits this guideline as a condition of stewardship. If the platform is shut down, we will provide a reasonable export window for authors to retrieve their content before final deprecation.

Versioning

Substantive changes to this document get a new effective date and a short note describing what changed. The current effective date is at the top of this page. Prior versions remain accessible via this site's commit history.

Contact

ContentCrepe LLC, Dover, Delaware, United States.