1. The blind room
Artists submit music for anonymous listening. Jury participants should assess the excerpt presented in the room, not hunt for artist identity, private titles, credits, outside context, audience signals, or unrelated personal information.
Artists' private labels are for their own library. Do not ask artists to reveal identity in the jury flow, and do not use private information obtained elsewhere to influence a score.
2. Public listening and voting
Track Verdict may offer free public listening to selected anonymous excerpts. A signed-in account is required to vote. Listening access does not authorize copying, reposting, recording, distributing, training systems on, or otherwise exploiting an excerpt outside the service.
Voting must reflect your actual listening and good-faith opinion. Do not coordinate vote campaigns, trade scores, create duplicate accounts, automate listening or ratings, manipulate playback records, retaliate against artists, or use ratings to advertise a separate service.
3. Tastemaker responsibilities
Tastemaker standing and rankings are earned through accountable participation. Give ratings independently, keep feedback focused on the work, and avoid discriminatory, harassing, sexually explicit, threatening, doxxing, or otherwise abusive comments.
Do not disclose, sell, publish, scrape, or use nonpublic jury information. Do not represent that a Track Verdict ranking, Certified status, or personal score makes you an employee, agent, representative, or guarantor of Track Verdict or an artist.
4. Artist responsibilities
Submit only music you have the right to submit. Keep a backup of your work. Do not submit deceptive files, malicious material, content that violates another person's rights, or audio intended to manipulate the technical checks, public feed, jury process, or moderation workflow.
Do not buy, pressure, or coordinate ratings. A verdict and the Certified seal are earned from eligible blind ratings under the service rules; neither can be purchased nor promised.
5. Moderation and integrity
We may investigate suspicious activity, rights complaints, privacy concerns, technical abuse, harassment, or rule violations. Integrity review can affect whether a score is eligible, whether a track appears in the room, and whether a ranking or seal continues to display.
Use the report intake to flag copyright, impersonation, illegal content, privacy, or abuse concerns. Reports are reviewed; they do not guarantee a particular action or outcome.
6. Consequences and appeals
Depending on the situation, actions may include content review, removal from public playback, restricted access, score recalculation, account limits, suspension, or other service action. We aim for proportional, good-faith enforcement, but this draft is not a promise of a particular process or result.
[TO COMPLETE] Define final moderation authority, notice process, appeal channel, response expectations, repeat-infringer policy, and regional rights required by applicable law.