Remnant of Promise
Effective Date: May 7, 2026
Last Updated: May 7, 2026
This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) sets out the conduct expected of every member who creates an account, posts content, or otherwise uses the Site at remnantofpromise.org. It works alongside the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, and the Community Guidelines. The Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, and Privacy Policy are incorporated into this AUP by reference; this AUP is incorporated into the Terms of Service by reference.
If your conduct violates this AUP, your conduct also violates the Terms of Service and may result in removal of content, suspension of your account, or permanent termination of your access to the Site.
This AUP applies to all activity on the Site, including:
You must be at least eighteen (18) years old to create an account or use the Site. Misrepresenting your age is a violation of this AUP and the Terms of Service.
You must use your own account. You may not share your account, give a third party access to your account, or operate the Site on behalf of someone whose own account has been suspended or terminated.
You may maintain only one account at a time. Creating additional accounts to evade suspension, harassment blocks, or moderation decisions is a violation.
You may not post, upload, link to, transmit through messaging, or otherwise share any content that:
Includes but is not limited to: content that violates U.S. federal law, the law of the State of Texas, or the law of any jurisdiction where the content can lawfully be reached and that applies to you.
Any content that sexualizes a person under eighteen years of age, depicts a minor in a sexual context, or grooms or attempts to groom a minor is strictly prohibited and will be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement. There is no second chance, no warning, no appeal, and no benefit-of-the-doubt for content of this kind.
The Site is not a platform for pornography, erotica, or sexually explicit material of any kind, regardless of the age of those depicted. This includes images, drawings, written stories, and explicit sexual messages.
Direct or indirect threats of physical harm to any person, group, or place are prohibited. So is content that incites others to commit violence.
Content that praises, supports, or recruits for designated terrorist organizations or extremist movements is prohibited.
Content that attacks individuals or groups on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other protected characteristic — including content framed as religious commentary that is in substance an incitement against people rather than a discussion of teaching — is prohibited.
The Community Guidelines explain at length how this community draws the line between naming inherited error in religious systems (allowed and central to the community’s purpose) and attacking the people who hold those views (not allowed). Read those Guidelines if the line is unclear to you.
Including:
Posting another person’s home address, phone number, real name (if they post under a username), workplace, family members, financial information, or other private information without their consent (“doxxing”) is prohibited.
Pretending to be another member, a moderator, an administrator of the Site, a public figure, an organization, or anyone you are not.
Content designed to trick members — including fake testimonies, fabricated quotes, manipulated images presented as authentic, doctored screenshots, scams, schemes, fake fundraising appeals, and “fellowship” pitches that are actually money-extraction operations — is prohibited.
Including:
Talking about your own walk, your own assembly, or your own studies is not solicitation. Cold-pitching members to join, buy, or send money is.
Including: posting the same content in multiple threads, flooding a thread with low-content replies to push it higher, automated posting, mass-mention abuse, and any other behavior aimed at gaming visibility.
Do not upload, share, or quote at length material whose copyright belongs to someone else without permission. Short quotes with citation are acceptable. Whole books, copyrighted teaching series, paid courses, or content you have explicitly been told not to redistribute are not acceptable.
Including: viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, spyware, keyloggers, cryptocurrency miners, malicious scripts, phishing pages, or any code or content designed to harm computers, intercept communications, or compromise accounts.
Content that encourages, glorifies, or instructs others in suicide or self-injury is prohibited. (Members in crisis or supporting members in crisis are a different matter — those conversations are allowed and welcomed; see Section 7.)
Anything the Community Guidelines specifically prohibit is also prohibited under this AUP.
In addition to the content rules above, you may not:
Including:
Including: bulk-downloading member profiles, scraping post content, harvesting email addresses, copying private messages, or extracting any data from the Site for use elsewhere — by any means, automated or manual, except as expressly permitted.
You may not use bots, scripts, or any automated means to register accounts, post content, send messages, or interact with the Site, except for legitimate accessibility tools (such as screen readers).
If your account has been suspended or content has been removed, you may not:
A VPN used for ordinary privacy protection is fine; a VPN used specifically to come back after a ban is not.
If you are granted moderation privileges (now or in the future), you may not use them to harass members, suppress legitimate disagreement, settle personal disputes, or act outside the scope of your authority.
You may not use the Site, the member directory, the forum content, or the resource library for commercial purposes without our written consent.
Repeatedly filing reports against members in bad faith — knowing the conduct does not actually violate any policy — is itself a violation of this AUP.
This community exists for direct, sometimes heated, conversation about scripture, inherited religious error, and the road of awakening. Disagreement is welcome. Strong language about systems and teachings is welcome. The line is between dismantling teaching (welcome) and attacking people (not welcome).
If a moderator asks you to drop a particular framing or to stop relitigating a particular fight in every thread, the request is not a censorship of your views — it is a request to make space for other conversations to happen. Persisting after a moderator request to drop a topic is a violation.
You may believe a moderator is wrong. The path for that disagreement is the appeals process described in Section 11. The path is not a meta-thread in the forum or a campaign of posts about the moderation decision.
Report violations through the Site’s reporting tools where available, or by emailing info@remnantofpromise.org. Include:
A member of the moderation team will review the report. We do not promise a response within a specific number of hours, but we read every report. We may take any of the following actions:
We will not disclose the identity of a reporter to the person reported except where it is unavoidable.
If you or another member appears to be in immediate crisis — suicidal, in danger from another person, or experiencing acute distress — that is not a violation, and supporting one another through hard moments is part of what this community is for.
Two notes:
If you become aware of an imminent threat to someone’s life, contact emergency services immediately, then notify us so we can act on what is on the Site.
The standard progression of enforcement is:
Some violations skip directly to step 4 with no warning:
We retain discretion to choose the appropriate step based on severity, context, and the member’s history.
A permanent removal means permanent. Creating a new account to return is itself a violation. If you believe a permanent ban was issued in error, the path is the appeal process — not a new account.
We may modify this AUP from time to time. When we do:
Where a change would significantly expand restrictions on conduct, we will give members reasonable notice before the change takes effect.
If your content has been removed, your account suspended, or your account terminated, you may appeal by emailing info@remnantofpromise.org from the email address associated with your account. Include:
We will respond to appeals in good faith. Our review of an appeal does not pause the original decision; if a suspension is in effect, it remains in effect during the review unless we tell you otherwise. Our decision on appeal is final.
Remnant of Promise
Email: info@remnantofpromise.org
Website: remnantofpromise.org
By creating an account or using the Site, you agree to abide by this Acceptable Use Policy in addition to the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines.
