Scope of the Policy

The Minitokyo community offers a place where people of disparate backgrounds and from diverse locations are brought together by common interests. It strives to be a free, open community where members can share their wallpapers and original art, collect feedback on their works, and participate in engaging discussions to improve their skills and gain insights in subjects of interest. While we endeavor to uphold a right to free expression, there are certain behaviors which are not tolerated and may infringe upon the rights of other members. As a result, we have drafted this document to delineate the rights and responsibilities of members here on Minitokyo.

All participation in this community must be done pursuant to the rules set forth in the Policy, and therefore by becoming a member, you agree to abide by the guidelines set forth in this document. Violation of this agreement may result in penalties such as deletion of your posts, removal of your submissions, issuing of warnings, application of restrictions on participation, and possibly permanent banishment from the community depending on the severity of the infraction(s) in question. The responsibility of arbitrating and enforcing the Policy falls within the exclusive purview of the community moderators.

This document was last updated on 4 December 2005 by shinsengumi.

General Policy

It is forbidden to post or submit any material that is illegal, false, misleading, harmful, insulting, threatening, abusive, invasive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, hateful, racially or otherwise objectionable, including without limitation material of any kind or nature that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, incur civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, provincial, national, or international law or regulation.

Members are solely responsible for all materials submitted to Minitokyo, and Minitokyo shall not claim ownership nor provide warranty of any kind for those materials. In submitting materials to Minitokyo, contributors grant Minitokyo an unlimited licence to store, present, redistribute, and republish those materials to other members without explicit permission. However, explicit permission from a contributor is required for actions such as the redistribution of material created by the owner to non-affiliated third parties. Minitokyo shall not be held liable for the actions of its members.

English is the working language of Minitokyo, and as such it is forbidden to post anything in a language other than English anywhere except in personal correspondence and in the pages of groups that have expressly allowed the use of one or more specific foreign languages. For the purposes of the Policy, personal correspondence is defined as any communication submitted in a personal guestbook or through a private message. Languages other than English are permitted on gallery items provided that the writing in question has artistic value.

Material submitted to Minitokyo does not necessarily reflect or express the views of Minitokyo. Minitokyo is not responsible for the content on this site and does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. Furthermore, plagerism is not tolerated on Minitokyo. As it is impossible for the moderators to verify all content available on this site, individual posts and submissions questionable under this Policy should be reported. In the execution of the Policy, moderators have the right to arbitrate and remove objectionable content at any time if removal is deemed necessary.

In regards to their fellow members, all members are expected to try to act in as civil a manner as possible in Minitokyo. Furthermore, as there are quite a number of younger members in this community, all members are encouraged to exercise tact while interacting in the community.

Member Policy

Members shall be known by the usernames with which they registered to join the community and as such as a general rule will not be permitted to change their usernames through any means, administrative or otherwise.

Members may, if desired, append an identifying signature to their posts on Minitokyo, though this signature must not be longer than four lines.

Gallery Policy

Minitokyo endeavors to only present material of the highest possible quality, and to that end the moderators shall delete any materials that do not meet a certain minimum standard of quality. Moderators reserve the right to delete material deemed to inappropriate for the Minitokyo galleries with or without notification even if the material conforms to this policy. Submissions that have been deleted due to a violation of this Policy may not be resubmitted, and duplicate submissions, including alternate versions of other submissions, are prohibited.

For the purpose of verifying authorship of submissions, moderators may request a source file such as an Adobe Photoshop document.

All submissions are to be submitted in Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format and may not exceed five (5) megabytes in file size. Resizing of submissions to meet minimum size criteria is prohibited.

Wallpapers

The submission of unmodified or copyrighted material is prohibited. Members may only submit their own work.
Submissions are only permitted in fixed resolutions. The following list constitutes a catalog of the most common wallpaper resolutions. Other resolutions are not supported because there is currently not enough of a demand for them.
- 4:3 & 5:4 Aspect Ratio
  - 1024x768
  - 1152x864
  - 1280x960
  - 1280x1024
  - 1600x1200
  - 2048x1536
- 16:9 Aspect Ratio
  - 1280x720
  - 1280x768
  - 1600x900
  - 1920x1080
- Dual-screen Resolutions
  - 2304x864
  - 2048x768
  - 2560x960
  - 2560x1024
  - 4096x1536
For anime wallpapers, it is required that a manga, anime, or game-related stock image be featured. This picture must feature at least one character and may not be used for background purposes. For general wallpapers, an appropriate subject must be featured. While stock images may be used in the creation of wallpapers, no unmodified stock images may be used for background purposes. For the purposes of this policy, an image that has undergone basic editing, such as resizing, retouching, or cropping, is still considered an unmodified image.
All wallpapers must meet a certain degree of quality, to be unconditionally determined by the moderators. As such, wallpapers such as those that are overly simplistic, in black or white, are "filter-whore" works, or use screen shots are not permitted for submission.

Doujinshi and Abstract Art

Submissions must have a minimum of forty-thousand (40,000) pixels.
Members may only submit their own work.
Doujinshi must feature a manga, anime, or game-related picture, and abstract art must be non-realistic.
All artwork must meet a certain standard of quality, to be unconditionally determined by the moderators. As such, unfinished artwork, doodles, and quick sketches are not permitted for submission.

Scans

Submissions must have a minimum of one million (1,000,000) pixels, may not be grayscale images, and must have at least sixteen bits per pixel.
Submissions must be a manga, anime, or game-related image.
Submissions must not contain excessive artifacts, folds, or noise, and may not be blurred, lacking in clarity, oversaturated or undersaturated, too dark or too light, or be a screenshot.
All scans must meet a certain standard of quality, to be unconditionally determined by the moderators. As such, scans that cannot be used as stock images for wallpapers and do not feature a subject that has at least half of its area visible are not permitted for submission.
All scans should have proper credit given to their sources.

Posting Policy

Posts are defined as any material of a wholly textual nature submitted on Minitokyo. Posts that contain spam in any form, are not germane, or are insulting or insolent are not permitted on Minitokyo.

The forums are intended as a place where members have an opportunity to be able to bring their individual experiences into conversations and discussions on issues pertaining to those common interests, and therefore all threads created should be done so with an eye towards benefiting the community and fostering meaningful discussion.

Forums

All posts must be germane to the topic at hand and must fall within the range of acceptable subjects for the specific forum in which they exist.
The creation of duplicates of threads with activity within the past four weeks is prohibited, and as such memberss are expected to use existing threads when possible and to search for active threads before creating new ones.

Galleries

All posts should contain detailed constructive criticism specific to the submission in question.

Reviews Policy

Reviews written on anime series, manga, and games are intended to serve as both substantive commentary and recommendation of the works in question. Members may only submit reviews they have written themselves. Furthermore, all reviews must meet a certain standard of quality, to be unconditionally determined by the moderators. As such, reviews that are insubstantial or incomplete, syntactically or linguistically deficient, skewed, irrelevant, or inflammatory are not permitted for submission.

Reviews may not be submitted for incomplete works for which no substantial portion has been released, whether it be episodes for anime series, volumes for manga, or individual games.

Groups Policy

Groups may exercise some autonomy in determining their subject, their membership, and conduct in their own guestbooks as long as they do not violate the General Policy of the community.