Community Guidelines

Christora is a Christian community portal created to provide a friendly, valuable, and human online space where users can talk, share their thoughts, photos, experiences, questions, faith, doubts, and everyday stories.

We would like Christora to be a place where it feels good to be present. A community space where people can connect, debate, ask questions, laugh, learn, encourage one another, and at the same time preserve human dignity, respect, and goodwill.

Christora is a Christian-spirited site, but we do not want to build a cold, unrealistic, or overregulated community. Faith, respect, and a cultured tone are important to us, but it is just as important that the community remains living, human, and natural.

The following guidelines show how the site should be used, what we expect from one another, and in what cases moderation may intervene regarding content or behavior.

1. The Basic Principle of Christora

In the Christora community, people are free to talk, ask questions, debate, think, and even express differing opinions.

The goal is not for everyone to think the same way about everything. The goal is that even when we disagree, we can still speak to one another in a human way.

On Christora, you are free to:

ask questions;
talk;
debate;
doubt;
share thoughts;
talk about faith, life, religion, and worldview;
encourage others;
ask for prayer or offer prayer;
share joys, difficulties, and personal stories;
use good-natured, respectful humor.

On Christora, you may not humiliate, harass, threaten, stir up hatred, spam, intentionally provoke others, or harm the community.

2. Christian Community, Human Tone

Christora is a Christian community portal, so respect for the dignity of the other person is especially important to us.

This does not mean that every conversation has to be solemn, overly formal, or free of disagreement. It is possible to be present honestly, naturally, and even with humor.

For us, a Christian spirit primarily means that we pay attention to one another, do not humiliate others, do not use the site for hatred, harassment, or destruction, and try to speak in a way that creates not destruction, but some form of constructive presence.

3. What Can Be Posted and Commented?

On Christora, we welcome content connected to community life, faith, everyday life, human relationships, culture, thoughts, questions, experiences, or constructive conversations.

You may share, for example:

personal thoughts;
Christian-themed content;
prayer requests;
encouraging messages;
photos, experiences, stories;
questions about faith, life, religion, or community;
respectful opinions;
blog posts, recommendations, quotes;
community initiatives;
good-humored, non-offensive humorous content.

The same basic principle applies to comments: you may agree, disagree, ask questions, or bring another point of view, but we ask that you do so in a human tone.

4. Debate, Questions, Doubt, and Differing Opinions

Christora does not prohibit meaningful debate.

You may discuss, for example:

the existence of God;
faith and doubt;
Christianity;
atheism and agnosticism;
other religions;
interreligious questions;
science and faith;
evolution, creation, and philosophy;
questions of church history;
controversial religious or historical topics.

A differing opinion is not a rule violation in itself. The presence of a respectful atheist, agnostic, or user of another religion is not a problem in itself.

The problem begins when someone does not want to have a conversation, but wants to provoke, proselytize, attack, mock, destroy, or regularly disturb the Christian community.

5. Other Religions, Atheism, and Worldview-Related Content

Christora is a Christian community site, but it does not automatically exclude people who belong to another religion, are seekers, doubters, agnostics, or atheists.

Respectful conversation is allowed.

However, the following are not allowed:

aggressive anti-religious propaganda;
continuous provocation of Christians;
forceful or intrusive promotion of another religion;
regular mockery of the Christian faith;
a profile or activity whose clear purpose is to disturb the community;
sectarian, extremist, manipulative, or deceptive proselytizing;
harassment based on religion or worldview.

If someone talks, asks questions, or debates respectfully, they may have a place in the community. However, if someone uses Christora as a surface for attack, provocation, or intrusive proselytizing, moderation may intervene.

6. Humor, Irony, and Sensitive Topics

Humor is not prohibited on Christora.

We would like the site to be living, human, and natural. Good-natured humor, self-irony, gentle satire, or a community joke is not a problem in itself.

At the same time, humor cannot be used as an excuse to humiliate others, stir up religious hatred, create obscene provocation, or harass anyone.

The following may be acceptable:

good-natured Christian humor;
respectful jokes on religious themes;
gentle irony;
discussion of historical or church-historical oddities;
respectful discussion of controversial religious phenomena.

The following are not allowed:

crude, obscene religious desecration;
pornographic, hateful, or humiliating depictions of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, saints, or Christian symbols;
content whose clear purpose is to provoke believers;
humiliating another user under the label of “joking”;
mockery that seriously violates religious or human dignity.

The assessment of sensitive topics always depends on context. Not every criticism or humorous remark is blasphemy, but crude, intentional religious desecration is not accepted.

7. Profanity and Stronger Wording

Christora is not a community built on vulgar speech.

It may happen that someone expresses themselves passionately, but we ask everyone to try not to speak to others in an aggressive, offensive, or community-damaging style.

The system may automatically censor certain harsh words. Moderation may intervene especially if profanity:

appears as a personal attack;
is combined with harassment or threats;
occurs repeatedly;
damages the tone of the conversation;
serves to humiliate another user.

A single stronger word does not necessarily lead to a ban in itself, but a regularly aggressive style, insults, or crude personal attacks may result in moderation action.

8. What We Do Not Allow on Christora

In order to protect the community, we do not allow the following content or behaviors:

spam;
unsolicited advertising;
suspicious offers that may involve fraud;
phishing or dangerous links;
pornographic or explicit sexual content;
sexual harassment;
threats;
harassment;
targeted humiliation;
hate speech;
incitement to violence;
publishing other people’s personal data;
abuse through fake profiles;
impersonating another person;
destructive provocation against the community;
bot activity or automated spam;
unlawful, deceptive, or harmful content.

Such content may be removed by moderation, and in more serious cases, the user account may be restricted or banned.

9. User Profiles and Name Usage

On Christora, we ask for a real, good-faith, and non-misleading community presence.

This does not mean that everyone is required to appear with their full official name or their own face photo, but a profile must not be misleading, troll-like, or abuse another person’s name.

The following are not allowed:

registering in the name of another real person;
appearing under the name of a celebrity, public figure, artist, actor, musician, or athlete as your own identity;
creating a profile in the name of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, saints, biblical figures, angels, or religious persons;
operating a profile that creates the impression that the user is some kind of official church or religious person;
creating parody, troll, or provocation profiles;
using another person’s photo as your own profile picture;
using the image of a celebrity or public figure as your own profile picture;
using a Christian religious figure, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, a saint, or a biblical figure as your own profile picture.

Your profile picture does not necessarily have to be a photo of your own face. It may be, for example, a nature image, animal, object, abstract image, or another neutral, non-misleading representation.

We are more permissive with cover images: they may include Christian, religious, cultural, or artistic images, as long as they are not offensive, obscene, misleading, or unlawful.

In the case of an obviously fake, provocative, or impersonating profile, Christora may restrict or ban the account without prior warning.

10. Personal Data and Private Content

Please do not publish personal data about others without permission.

It is especially prohibited to:

publish another person’s phone number;
share a home address, email address, or private data;
publish a screenshot of a private conversation without permission;
make public information that could be used to harass another person;
share data that could identify, shame, or attack another user.

Be careful when sharing your own personal data as well. Christora is a community space, so always think carefully about what you share publicly.

11. Pages and Groups

Pages and groups may also be created on Christora. These must also fit the purpose and spirit of the community.

A page or group may not be used for:

spam;
deception;
hate speech;
aggressive religious or ideological propaganda;
anti-Christian provocation;
distributing pornographic or unlawful content;
harassing other users;
intentionally tearing the community apart.

Pages, groups, or their content that violate the rules may be restricted, removed, or moderated.

12. Political and Public Affairs Topics

Christora is not a political portal, but public life and faith often touch each other, so a complete ban on public affairs topics would not be realistic.

Respectful discussion of public affairs, social issues, Christian-minded reflection, or exchange of opinions is allowed.

However, the following are not allowed:

mass spreading of party propaganda;
political spam;
harassment of other users on political grounds;
hateful political content;
deliberately dividing or tearing apart the community through political topics.

In political content, moderation pays special attention to tone, repetition, and whether the topic leads to real conversation or rather to destructive conflict.

13. Reports and Moderation

If you see content that you believe violates the Community Guidelines, you can use the report function.

A report is not an automatic judgment. Moderation always tries to take context into account.

Content does not necessarily have to be deleted simply because someone does not like it, because it is controversial, sensitive, or unpopular. At the same time, if content is harassing, offensive, hateful, spam-like, or harmful to the community, moderation may intervene.

Possible moderation actions include:

no action;
monitoring the content;
deleting a comment;
deleting a post;
issuing a warning;
temporary restriction;
banning the user;
in serious cases, further operator or legal action.

14. When Can We Delete or Ban Without Warning?

In certain cases, Christora may delete content or restrict an account without prior warning.

Such cases may include, for example:

spam;
pornographic content;
threats;
harassment;
hate speech;
publishing other people’s personal data;
spreading dangerous or suspicious links;
an obvious troll profile;
impersonating another person;
serious blasphemous provocation;
deliberate destruction of the community.

Christora is a privately operated community portal. User presence is conditional upon accepting and following the rules of the site.

15. Moderators and Community Administrators

The community order of Christora may be supported by the operator and, if necessary, appointed moderators or community administrators.

The task of moderators is not to close every debate, but to protect the community from destructive, harassing, hateful, spam-like, or seriously rule-breaking content.

Moderators may, if necessary, delete posts, comments, photos, or other community content, and in more serious cases may also initiate user restrictions.

In doubtful cases, the operator may decide.

16. The Right of Final Decision

In the interpretation of Christora’s guidelines and in moderation decisions, the operator has the right of final decision.

The guidelines may change over time based on the development of the community, experience, feedback, and problems that arise.

Our goal is not to unnecessarily restrict conversations, but to maintain a community space where people can be present meaningfully, in a human tone, and with respect for one another.

17. In Short

On Christora, you can: