Moderation & reporting
Every listing on ScrollForge is read by a person before it is published, and anyone can report one afterwards. This page says who decides, how to report, what we do, and how to appeal — including what is still done by hand.
01Who moderates
Plain English · Marketplace moderators are EternalEngine staff with a specific moderation permission. Owning a workspace does not make anyone a moderator. Decisions are made by people, in the EternalEngine app.
A Marketplace moderator is a person holding the marketplace:moderate permission or a platform administrator flag. An ordinary workspace owner role — however powerful inside its own workspace — is never sufficient. Moderation happens in the EternalEngine app, never on scrollforge.io, and every publish, reject, suspend and reinstate action records who did it and a comment.
02Before a listing is published
Plain English · Submit → queue → a moderator publishes it or returns it to draft with a written reason you can read on the listing. Sellers cannot publish themselves.
A seller's listing starts as a draft. Submitting it puts it in the review queue, oldest first. A moderator checks it against the Listing guidelines and theProhibited content policy and either publishes it orreturns it to draft with a comment. The seller sees every event — submitted, approved, rejected — with its comment on the listing's review timeline, and may edit and resubmit. There is no path by which a seller, or anyone without the moderator permission, can set a listing live.
03Reporting a listing, seller or review
Plain English · Email us the link and the problem. Say who you are if you want a reply. For copyright, use the DMCA process instead.
To report a listing, a seller profile or a review, emailinfo@eternalengineos.io with the subject "ScrollForge content report" and include:
- the URL of the listing, seller page or review (from scrollforge.io or the app);
- what is wrong and, where possible, which part of the prohibited content policy or guidelines it breaches;
- anything that helps us verify it — screenshots, the original work if it is yours, the specific file or passage;
- your name and email if you want to hear the outcome (anonymous reports are read too);
- a statement that you believe in good faith that the report is accurate.
Security vulnerabilities in a product or in the marketplace go to thedisclosure channel. Copyright and trademark claims go through the Copyright & DMCA policy (section 08). Child sexual abuse material: report it to us and to the authorities in your country immediately.
Not yet · There is no "Report" button on listings, seller pages or reviews yet, and no web form — email is the channel today. When a button ships it will feed the same process described here.
04What happens after a report
Plain English · A person reads it, checks the listing, and acts — or tells you why not. We aim to acknowledge within one business day.
- Acknowledgement. If you gave an email address we confirm receipt; we read every message and aim to reply within one business day.
- Human review. A moderator examines the listing, the file and the seller's history against the policies. No decision is automated.
- Decision. One of:
- No action — the content does not breach a policy; we tell you why.
- Correction requested — the seller is asked to fix or archive the listing within a set time.
- Seller suspended — for a clear or serious breach: every one of the seller's listings is hidden from the catalog and search immediately and cannot be purchased. Reinstatement restores them.
- Account removed and, where required, a report to law enforcement — for illegal content.
- Outcome. If you asked to be told, you hear the result and the reason in outline.
Not yet · The marketplace cannot yet pull a single published listing on its own: the levers today are suspending the seller (all of their listings) or having the seller archive the listing. A per-listing takedown action is planned — until it exists, a single bad listing from an otherwise good seller is handled by correction request first.
Not yet · Reviews cannot yet be removed by a moderator. Reviews are accepted only from verified buyers, which is the anti-abuse control today; a reported review is handled with the reviewer and the seller by email.
05What the seller is told
Plain English · A rejected listing carries the reason on its review timeline. A suspended seller is told what rule was breached, what they can do, and how to appeal.
When a listing is returned to draft, the moderator's comment appears on that listing's review timeline, which the seller can read in the app and on their listings page. When a seller is suspended, their selling pages show the suspension, and we email the account's address with: the content concerned, the policy it breached, the facts we relied on, whether the report came from a third party (never who), what the seller can do to be reinstated, and how to appeal. That email is written by the moderator, by hand.
06Appeals
Plain English · Disagree with a rejection, a suspension, or a "no action" on your report? Email within six months. A person who did not make the original call reviews it.
A seller whose listing was rejected or whose account was suspended, and a reporter whose report was closed with no action, may appeal by emailinginfo@eternalengineos.io with the subject "ScrollForge moderation appeal" within six months of the decision, stating the decision, why it was wrong, and any new information. Appeals are reviewed by a person, wherever possible not the one who made the original decision, and answered by email with reasons. If an appeal succeeds, a reinstated seller's listings return to the catalog at once, and a returned listing can be resubmitted.
Rejection comments on the review timeline are not appeals — they are the fastest route: edit the listing to address the comment and resubmit.
07Misuse of reporting
Reports made in bad faith — to harass a seller, to remove a competitor, or repeatedly without basis — are a breach of the Marketplace Terms and are handled the same way as the conduct they allege: a warning, then suspension of the reporting account's selling and reviewing privileges.
08Copyright & trademark
Plain English · Rights holders use the EternalEngine DMCA process. A valid notice takes the content down; the seller can counter-notice; repeat infringers are removed.
Copyright and trademark claims about a listing follow theEternalEngine Copyright & DMCA policy: a notice with the elements listed there, sent to the same address with the subject "DMCA notice", leads to removal of the material and notice to the seller, who may counter-notice. Buyers who already downloaded a product that is later removed keep the file they downloaded but lose the ability to re-download it; the refund policy covers a purchase made shortly before removal. Repeat infringers lose the ability to sell.
