Effective Date: February 22, 2026

DEX is a vast network of communities that are created, run, and populated by you, the DEX users.

Through these communities, you can post, comment, share, discuss, learn, debate, support,and connect with people who share your interests, and we encourage you to find—or even create—your home on DEX.

While not every community may be for you (and you may find some unrelatable or even offensive), no community should be used as a weapon. Communities should create a sense of belonging for their members, not try to diminish it for others. Likewise, everyone on DEX should have an expectation of privacy and safety, so please respect the privacy and safety of others.

Every community on DEX is defined by its users. Some of these users help manage the community as moderators. The culture of each community is shaped explicitly, by the community rules enforced by moderators, and discussions of its community members. Please abide by the rules of communities in which you participate and do not interfere with those in which you are not a member.

Below the rules governing each community are the platform-wide rules that apply to everyone on DEX. These rules are enforced by us, the admins. DEX and its communities are only what we make of them together, and can only exist if we operate by a shared set of rules. We ask that you abide by not just the letter of these rules, but the spirit as well.

Rules

Rule 1

DEX is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use DEX free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based identity or vulnerability will be banned.

Rule 2

Abide by community rules. Post authentic content into communities where you have a personal interest, and do not cheat or engage in content manipulation (including spamming, vote manipulation, ban evasion, or subscriber fraud) or otherwise interfere with or disrupt DEX communities.

Rule 3

Respect the privacy of others. Instigating harassment, for example by revealing someone’s personal or confidential information is not allowed. Never post or threaten to post intimate or sexually-explicit media of someone without their consent.

Rule 4

Do not post or encourage the posting of sexual or suggestive content involving minors.

Rule 5

You don’t have to use your real name to use DEX, but don’t impersonate an individual or an entity in a misleading or deceptive manner.

Rule 6

Ensure people have predictable experiences on DEX by properly labeling content and communities, particularly content that is graphic, sexually-explicit, or offensive.

Rule 7

Keep it legal, and avoid posting illegal content or soliciting or facilitating illegal or prohibited transactions.

Rule 8

Don’t break the site or do anything that interferes with normal use of DEX.

Enforcement

We have a variety of ways of enforcing our rules, including, but not limited to

• Temporary or permanent suspension of accounts
• Removal of privileges from, or adding restrictions to, accounts
• Removal of content
• Banning of DEX communities

MODERATOR GUIDELINES

Healthy communities are those where participants engage in good faith, and with an assumption of good faith for their co-collaborators. It’s not appropriate to attack your own users. Communities are active, in relation to their size and purpose, and where they are not, they are open to ideas and leadership that may make them more active.

Management of your own Community

Moderators are important to the DEX ecosystem. In order to have some consistency:

• Community Descriptions:

Please describe what your community is, so that all users can find what they are looking for on the site.

• Clear, Concise, and Consistent Guidelines:

Healthy communities have agreed upon clear, concise, and consistent guidelines for participation. These guidelines are flexible enough to allow for some deviation and are updated when needed. Secret Guidelines aren’t fair to your users—transparency is important to the platform.

• Stable and Active Teams of Moderators:

Healthy communities have moderators who are around to answer questions of their community and engage with the admins.

• Association to a Brand:

We love that so many of you want to talk about brands and provide a forum for discussion. Remember to always flag your community as “unofficial” and be clear in your community description that you don’t actually represent that brand.

• Appeals:

Healthy communities allow for appropriate discussion (and appeal) of moderator actions. Appeals to your actions should be taken seriously. Moderator responses to appeals by their users should be consistent, germane to the issue raised and work through education, not punishment.

• Remember the Content Policy

You are obligated to comply with our Content Policy.

• Management of Multiple Communities

We know management of multiple communities can be difficult, but we expect you to manage communities as isolated communities and not use a breach of one set of community rules to ban a user from another community. In addition, camping or sitting on communities for long periods of time for the sake of holding onto them is prohibited.

• Respect the Platform

DEX may, at its discretion, intervene to take control of a community when it believes it is in the best interest of the community or the website. This should happen rarely (e.g., a top moderator abandons a thriving community), but when it does, our goal is to keep the platform alive and vibrant, as well as to ensure your community can reach people interested in that community. Finally, when the DEX admins contact you, we ask that you respond within a reasonable amount of time.

Where moderators consistently are in violation of these guidelines, DEX may step in with actions to heal the issues – sometimes pure education of the moderator will do, but these actions could potentially include dropping you down the moderator list, removing moderator status, prevention of future moderation rights, as well as account deletion. We hope permanent actions will never become necessary.