Sandbox Galaxy Rules

Last revised 12/17/2025 2:41 pm

Sandbox Galaxy is moderated by an evolving team of moderators that uphold the community guidelines to help create a positive, creative and safe environment. Moderators aim to help the community with content and social concerns. For larger cases, we engage in discussions to ensure decisions are made with the community's best interests in mind.

We want to be transparent about moderation on this site, so please read through this section to understand what goes behind the scenes. Always remember that staff members are humans too, just like you.

Do you have what it takes to become a moderator? Apply here.

11.Community Reporting

Sandbox Galaxy is a community-driven platform, and everyone plays a role in keeping our space creative, friendly, and safe. While moderators are here to ensure guidelines are followed, we rely on you—our members—to help us stay informed about content, profiles, comments, or behaviors that might violate our guidelines. Look for reporting options throughout the platform, relative to the specific content or behavior you wish to report. We also have a ticket system available. By reporting concerns, you’re not just looking out for yourself, but for the entire community.

Reports are reviewed largely on a case-by-case basis and are kept confidential - only moderators will know who reported what. If in doubt, feel free to make a ticket or privately contact any staff member. To keep cases fair, reports against a staff member are hidden to the staff member, so you can safely report any staff member. However, we still advise you to either contact an administrator or make a ticket if you have any concern with a staff member.

Moderators can and will contact you with any follow up information regarding your report. You can view all your open and past reports, along with information about which staff member handled them and any replies from staff, on your reports dashboard.

✅ What you can report:

  • Inappropriate content, including offensive builds, skins, or posts.
  • Comments or messages that are harmful, disrespectful, or violate our guidelines.
  • Profiles containing inappropriate imagery, language, or links.
  • Any behavior that feels threatening or unsafe or that violates these guidelines.

🚫 Maybe don't report these:

  • Personal disagreements that don’t break community rules.
  • Content that you simply dislike but does not violate guidelines.
  • Accidental mistakes—give members the benefit of the doubt if it’s not serious.
Remember, we’re all in this together. By reporting issues, you’re helping to protect the creativity and positive spirit that makes us special. Let’s work together to keep this community a place where everyone can feel welcome, inspired, and safe!

12.Moderator Ranks

An overview of our moderation ranks:
  • Admins: develop the platform and handle disputes within moderation. While they don't typically engage in day-to-day moderation, they review our more complex cases.
  • Super Moderators: have similar permissions to Site Moderators but have significantly more experience on Sandbox Galaxy and in it's moderation tools and practices.
  • Site Moderators: are typically the first to address rule violations. Most cases are resolved at this level without needing further escalation.
  • Forum Moderators: oversee the forums and can moderate replies on content across the platform.
You can view all moderators and their ranks on our team page.

13.Moderator Actions

✅ Moderators can do this:

  • Ban or lock member accounts and groups.
  • Reset usernames, custom statuses, social links and profile art.
  • Remove, disable or restore uploaded content.
  • Lock or delete forum threads and posts.
  • Modify profile widget content. (All edits are logged)
  • Find potential alt accounts.
  • Review member block lists.
  • Maintain various whitelists and blacklists of URLs, phrases and server IPs.
  • Manage private support tickets.
  • Perform any action a regular member can.

🚫 But we CANNOT do this:

  • Take any of the above actions without valid reason.
  • View your Private Messages (Admins only)
  • View your private email or IP. (Admins only)
  • Review group applications.
  • Break our own rules or treat members unfairly.

Examples of corrective actions

For some clarity, here are a few actions that Site moderators can take:

image Content
  • Delete submissions (Hidden from public, can be restored).
  • Disable submissions (Hidden from public, changes allowed for restoration review)
  • Change titles, URLs, tags, remove download links or manage monetization status.
account_circle Profile
  • Ban or tempban (Prevents public posting for a set period).
  • Lock (Prevents login, profile inaccessible to public).
  • Edit usernames, some widgets, and find probable alt accounts.
forum Forum
  • Delete threads or posts.
  • Edit threads or posts.
  • Lock forum threads.
chat Chat
  • Remove messages and issue chat infractions.
  • View private conversations.
  • Change chat announcement.
  • Appear invisible in chat

14.Issues with Moderation

Moderators strive to make decisions that serve the best interests of the community. While you may not always agree with or fully understand their actions, we ask that you review the rules, respect their judgment, potentially learn from any mistakes and continue to engage constructively.

We're all human and moderators can make mistakes too. If you wish to appeal a decision, please submit a ticket. The moderation team will review your appeal and discuss it with the moderator involved.

If you believe a moderator has violated our rules or community guidelines, you can contact a senior moderator via PM or submit a ticket. Moderators are held to a higher standard, and any complaints are carefully reviewed by the Admins.

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