Comment rules and terms.

Who runs Rubric

Rubric is a hrih.si lab, published by hrih, a private individual in France, on a non-commercial basis, and not by a company. hrih is also the publication director and the moderator, and has given their identity to the host, as French law (LCEN) provides for individuals. Contact: hello@hrih.si, in English or French. That address is also the single point of contact for readers and for authorities under the EU Digital Services Act.

The site is hosted by OVH SAS, 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France, +33 9 72 10 10 07, on a server in its Canadian data centre.

Your account

• You must be 16 or older to have an account.
• One account per person. Keep your sign-in to yourself; what is posted from your account is yours.
• Your display name must not pretend to be someone else, speak for Rubric, or break the rules below. Rubric may ask you to change it.
• You can delete your account at any time on your account page.

What you may not post

• Anything illegal: hate speech, incitement to violence or discrimination, threats, defamation, terrorist content, child sexual abuse material, or anything that infringes someone else’s rights, such as their copyright or privacy.
• Personal attacks: insulting, threatening or harassing another reader, an author or anyone named, or attacking people for their race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability or nationality.
• Spam: advertising or self-promotion unrelated to the discussion, repeated junk, or posting by script.
• Someone else’s personal details, such as their address or phone number.
• Text written to steer the ranking, such as instructions addressed to the model that ranks comments.

Harsh criticism of companies, products, professions, ideas or code is welcome.

How comments are ranked and moderated

Comments are not voted on. An AI model, Jev by TypeSafe, answers a public rubric about each comment, and its score sets the order. How comments are ranked lists the questions and weights.

Two of the questions look for spam and personal attacks. When the model is confident a comment is one of them, the comment is hidden automatically until the moderator looks at it; when it is less sure, the comment stays up and goes to the moderator’s review queue. A person reviews every comment hidden this way. Readers can also report comments: three reports from accounts older than three days hide a comment until the moderator looks.

The moderator can restore a comment, remove it, or suspend an account. When a comment is removed, its author sees the reason on the comment and on their account page; readers see “[removed]” where it had replies. A suspended account can still read, delete its comments and delete itself, and is told why it was suspended.

Reporting a comment

If you are signed in, use the Report button under the comment. Anyone else can email hello@hrih.si with:

• the comment’s link (the time under the author’s name is a link to it);
• why you think it is illegal or breaks these rules;
• your name and email address;
• a statement that you believe, in good faith, that what your notice says is accurate and complete.

Every report is read by a person, and the person who reported by email is told what was decided.

Contesting a decision

If your comment was hidden or removed, your account suspended, or your report turned down, you can ask for the decision to be looked at again: email hello@hrih.si within six months with the comment’s link. A person, not the model, reviews it and answers. You can also take the matter to court.

Your comments

What you write stays yours. By posting it, you give hrih, as publisher of Rubric, a free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to store it, show it on Rubric, rank it, and send it to the model that ranks it, for as long as it is on the site. You confirm that you have the right to post it.

Deleting a comment or your account ends this licence, as the privacy page describes: the text is erased. A comment the moderator removed keeps its text for the record of that decision.

Responsibility

Comments are their authors’ views, not Rubric’s. Rubric hosts them and acts on reports promptly, as the Digital Services Act and French law (LCEN) provide. Rubric is free and provided as it is: it may change, pause comments or close, and comments may be unavailable at times. Nothing here limits a liability the law does not allow to be limited.

Changes and law

A new version of these terms is posted here with its date. If you keep commenting after a change, the new terms apply; if you disagree, you can delete your account.

These terms are governed by French law. If you live in another EU country, you keep the protections its law gives you that cannot be set aside, including the right to bring a dispute before your own courts.