COGPIT

House rules

Short version of the terms: this is what gets you banned

1. 18 or older. No exceptions.

If the person on the other side looks like a minor, do not chat, press REPORT. Those reports jump the queue and are acted on within minutes.

2. Keep your clothes on

Cogpit is not an adult-cam site. Nudity or sexual content ends the session and bans the device on the first offence.

3. No hate, no harassment

Disagree all you like. Attacking someone for who they are, threatening them, or following them across sessions is not a disagreement.

4. Do not record people

Recording, screenshotting or streaming another participant without their explicit consent is forbidden, and in many countries it is a crime.

5. No spam, no bots, no advertising

Automated clients, link drops and promotional scripts are removed permanently. Cogpit is for humans talking to humans.

6. Gifts are a thank-you, not a price

You can send somebody tokens because you liked what they were doing. Somebody played a song, drew something, showed you a machine they built, explained a thing they know, or was simply good company. That is what gifts are for.

Nobody may ask for anything in return. Not a favour, not a photo, not a performance, and above all nothing sexual. It does not matter whether the tokens were mentioned first, whether it was a hint rather than a request, or whether the other person agreed: asking is the offence, and offering is too.

This is the rule we enforce hardest, because it is the one that turns a conversation into a transaction. Breaking it removes your access, that ban cannot be lifted by paying, and where the law requires it the conversation goes to the authorities along with the record of what was paid. Being on the receiving end of such a request is never held against you: press REPORT and pick asked me to do something for tokens.

7. Anything illegal goes to the police

Child sexual abuse material, credible threats, and trafficking are preserved as evidence and referred to law enforcement with the technical details we hold.

Your own device keeps an eye out

While you are talking to somebody, your browser takes a quick look at the picture your camera is sending, and at the picture you are being shown, and makes a rough guess about whether the rules are being broken. No picture leaves your device. All that reaches us is a number, and it only ever means a moderator should look at this conversation.

It is often wrong. A face close to the camera looks much like anything else to it, and somebody in a vest is breaking no rule at all. That is exactly why it cannot ban anybody: everything it raises is looked at by a person while the conversation is still happening, and dismissed if it was nothing. Nothing is kept once the conversation ends.

How reports work

Press REPORT during a chat, pick a reason, add a note. The room id, the reason, a one-way device fingerprint of both participants and one still picture of both cameras go straight into a moderator queue. The picture is taken only at that instant, from both people rather than only from the one being reported, and is deleted after 30 days. We never store your raw IP address, and we never publish who reported whom. Moderators may also inspect live conversations at random to check the rules are being followed; you accepted that when you started.

When several people report you at once

If three different people report you within ten minutes, chatting is paused automatically for an hour while a moderator looks. It is a pause, not a verdict: nobody has decided anything about you yet, it lifts by itself, and a moderator who disagrees with it lifts it sooner.

It takes three different people on purpose. One person reporting you repeatedly does nothing at all, and neither do three reports spread across an afternoon.

If you think it is wrong, write to a moderator and a person will read it.

Being safe yourself