New LEGO CUUSOO House Rules

As we look forward to revealing and launching Hayabusa and sharing the results of our LEGO Review of Minecraft, we’re happy to see all of the creativity you are putting into your LEGO CUUSOO projects.  There have been some great new projects over the last few weeks and some cool new content on some of the older and more popular projects, too.

LEGO CUUSOO is striving to be a constructive environment where people can share their creativity and new ideas.  The site remains in beta, which means that we are still developing and testing the site and making tweaks to the rules and crowdsourcing model so the site fulfills our vision.  Thanks for understanding that and adapting with us as we learn what behavioral standards make for that constructive community.

Unfortunately we’ve seen some undesirable behavior in some of the projects here on CUUSOO.  Users have been uploading others’ ideas as their own, spamming in the comments, trolling, and even using the comments as a chat room rather than to discuss the projects themselves.  As a result, we’ve taken some disciplinary action as we’ve seen fit.

Site updates are coming

We have been working on a series of updates to the Guidelines and Terms of Service that make it more clear what types of projects and what kind of activity we want to encourage here.  These are due for release in early January.  We’re also going to make it a lot easier and more straightforward to report stolen content.

While we hoped the tone of conversation on LEGO CUUSOO would stay constructive until then, it has not, so we are implementing the new House Rules portion of the revised Guidelines now (based somewhat on the House Rules on LEGO ReBrick) and will follow up with more comprehensive and clear Project Guidelines soon.

LEGO CUUSOO House Rules

It is your responsibility as a user to keep your interactions fun and respectful, so the atmosphere remains positive with a focus on sharing new ideas for LEGO products. To make sure that everyone has a good time, we have made these common sense house rules:

1.  Be respectful.  When you comment on others’ models, keep your remarks positive.  Even when you have suggestions for improvement, keep a constructive and respectful tone.  Don’t be offensive, creepy, abusive, humiliating or intimidating and don’t harass or impersonate others.  Please also keep your remarks on-topic.  This is not a discussion site, comments on LEGO CUUSOO should be focused around the Projects you are supporting.
2.  Play nice.  LEGO CUUSOO is to be a good, clean environment.  Don’t create Projects related to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, sex; or any kind of content containing realistic or extreme violence, or content intended to shock or disgust.
3.  We will step in if we must.  We reserve the right to remove any comments or content that is in violation of these rules. Repeated or excessive violations of the House Rules will result in a ban from LEGO CUUSOO.

Examples

In addition to the House Rules above, here are some examples of good behavior and bad behavior to help you know what is acceptable and what is not:

Keep comments on-topic:

Keep comments constructive:

Please don’t do these things:

• Don’t use the comments as a chat room: “Hey everyone, let’s have a team discussion. Everyone comment below this now.”
• Don’t attack or threaten: “You’re a loser, Bob.  I’m going to come and get you.”

Thank you for working with us to keep LEGO CUUSOO a positive atmosphere, and thanks for your patience as we make a couple necessary adjustments.  Most of all, thank you for sharing your creativity here on LEGO CUUSOO and good luck on your journey to 10,000 supporters for your projects!