Chat rules

One chat with everyone on Kontest in it. It sits just under your own chat, and you can’t leave it.

• Guests can read it. To say anything, sign in with Google: your guest account is kept, with everything in it.
• Slow mode: one message every few seconds each, so everyone gets a word in.
• Text (up to 1,000 characters), voice notes and stickers. No games, gifts or live voice.
• It keeps the last 2,000 messages; older ones are gone for good.
• No ticks: in a chat this big, nobody can see who has read what.

Anything you say in Global can be read by everyone on Kontest.

Every Kontest has a chat for the people in it, named after the Kontest.

• Entering a Kontest adds you to its chat; leaving the Kontest takes you out. You can also leave just the chat.
• A recurring official Kontest, such as KOOL Sunday, has one chat that carries on from edition to edition, so you stay in it while you’re entered in any of them.
• Official Kontest chats have no admin. In a branded or community Kontest, the organiser is the chat’s admin: they can remove people from it and take down any message in it.
• Kontest chats are never deleted. Each keeps its last 2,000 messages.
• Like Global: text, voice notes and stickers only, and no ticks.

More on Kontests themselves in How Kontests work.

Talk like you would in front of everyone, because you are. In every chat:

• No abuse, bullying, threats or harassment, and no piling on one person.
• No hate: nothing attacking people for their tribe, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sex, disability or similar.
• No sexual content, and nothing sexual involving anyone under 18, ever.
• No violence, gore or encouraging anyone to hurt themselves or others.
• No scams: no selling or buying Koins, Kash or accounts, no “send me money” schemes, no fake giveaways.
• No spam: no flooding, repeating, chain messages or advertising. Ads belong in ads, which are reviewed.
• No sharing other people’s private details or pictures without their consent.
• No pretending to be someone else, including Kontest.
• Nothing illegal, and no links to malware or phishing.

The Terms apply in every chat, public or private.

Any message in any chat can be reported: open it, choose Report and pick a reason (spam, abuse or bullying, hate, sexual content, violence, scam, or something else). The person who sent it isn’t told who reported it.

When three different people report the same message, it’s hidden for everyone until a Kontest admin looks at it. The admin then deletes it for good or puts it back. Reports that turn out to be false or made to harass someone are a breach of these rules too.

• Muted in Global: you can still read it, but not say anything, for a while or for good.
• Removed from a Kontest chat by its organiser: you’re out of that chat, but still in the Kontest.
• Banned: for serious or repeated breaches, an account is closed. You’re signed out everywhere and can’t sign in again.

Think a decision was wrong? Write to support@kontest.games and we’ll look again.