Hello! The team and I have come up with new standards to better reflect the honour system. While there are certain things that will remain case-by-case, we hope this will provide clarity on how future situations will be handled. This will (ideally) allow us to issue punishments in a more timely matter when deemed appropriate. Please reach out to a moderator if you have any questions. Head Mod

Hello! The rumors are true. Four new bombshells have entered the Kovaze_Moderation villa! Please welcome @MOD_Roan, @MOD_Lexa, @MOD_Kane, and @MOD_Monty to the moderation team. Further, thank you to all who applied to become a part of moderation. It was incredibly difficult to narrow it down to 4 — please know no decisions were easy and your time and energy are absolutely appreciated! We are always open to feedback and recommendations on how we can change this site for the better. Let’s make the first full year of Kovaze an unforgettable one! Head Mod

Hello Kovazians! We are seeking out new moderators! If interested, please send me a mail with the following information. Please title the mail "Moderation Application" to make my life a little bit easier. Age: Language(s): Discord: Relevant experience (it's okay if you don't really have any!): Main reason for wanting to moderate (no more than 300 words): If you have any questions, please ask them in a mail separate from your application, or on Discord. You can find me in the Kovaze server or by adding the username on my profile. Head Mod

Hello As you are likely aware, there has been much speculation about certain users and their accounts on previous websites. We want to make it clear that this website is NOT at all a safe space for groomers, pedophiles, and others with a sordid history in our communities. The mod team's goal is to free this website of the toxic culture the previous ones had. So many of us were victimized on those websites and communities in ways that is irreversible. Any amount of sexual predation is far, far too much. That being said, accusations without proof simply need to stop. If you believe someone is hiding under a new identity on Kovaze, gather your evidence and file a report or send it to a moderator. We can't operate off of assumptions and speculation. Users who have been proven to fall into this category have been banned already. If you have something tangible, we can act. If you have a coincidence or two and the fact that a user was a flirty, we can't act. In the past week, when I've reached out to users making these accusations, no proof was provided. Sometimes, messages even went fully ignored. All this has done is led to a witch hunt against certain users that appears to us as moderators as completely unfounded. We do NOT want to protect predators, but we can't punish people based on accusations that, as of right now, appear completely baseless. When we allow users to make these accusations without proof, they quickly become taken as fact and used against the accused. Users who were victimized in the past by those predators can be made to feel re-traumatized, legitimately triggered, or deeply uncomfortable. Even if the accusations were correct, the lack of proof and public nature of them is only going to cause mass hysteria. We ALL want this to be a safe community that is better than the ones before it. In order to create that, we all need to be mindful about the impact of what we say in serious situations. The blogs page is not the place to accuse someone of being a Tengaged/Zwooper pedophile under a new account. #mod-talk in discord is not the place. The only place to do this is a report, mails with a mod, or a similar forum. Continued behavior will result in some type of formal sanctions, ranging from a warning to a ban. It should go without saying that someone proven to be a predator hiding under a new identity will be permanently banned and barred from making any future accounts. Head Mod

Hello Kovaze! As most of you are aware, inactivity in race has become an offense that warrants warnings and bans. Due to the sheer volume and frequency of these reports, it has made it much more difficult to go through reports and manage other activity on the site. While we do not want to encourage inactivity in race, we can no longer treat it as a punishable action. In the future, we would like to set up some sort of system to better deal with it automatically, but until then, it will no longer be moderated behavior. If you have EVIDENCE that someone threw purposefully due to being paired with you, that is a different story. But again, there must be evidence of this. You believing it happened does not make it happened. Further, the race inactivity reports made me realize how many of you may be using our report system. Oftentimes, when someone is inactive in race, there are 3 or 4 reports from people who have issues with that person or friends of the person they're partnered with. Quantity of reports will not make us take something more seriously. If you need to report someone, report them, but having others due it as well isn't going to help your cause and just makes our jobs more difficult. We understand it is extremely frustrating to have an inactive race partner. We hope we can find a better solution to this problem than the flooding of our mails/reports. Until that happens, race inactivity will no longer be punished. Head Mod

Mailing me is not a report.