Terms

1. Be 16 or older. You must be at least 16 to have a TPS account.

2. Submit truthful data. Runs you submit must be real: your hardware (or hardware you have permission to use), your benchmark, honest numbers. Fabricated or doctored results get removed and can close your account. Your full promises about submissions are in the Data Terms.

3. Be civil. In run notes, flag notes, appeals, and your profile. No harassment, no doxxing, no posting other people’s personal information anywhere on TPS.

4. Vote and flag in good faith. Votes and flags are quality signals for the community, not weapons. Don’t brigade, don’t flag runs to settle scores, and give honest reasons when you flag. Repeated bad-faith voting or flagging can close your account.

5. Appeals and moderation records are public. When a run is demoted, the moderator’s note is public. Moderator notes are our opinions, based on the published run data and the methodology we apply — they say what we concluded and why, from what’s on the page, and they link the run data they rely on. When you appeal, what you write in the appeal thread is public and stays up as part of the permanent public record. We keep that record intact, with two exceptions: we remove content where the law requires us to, and where a complaint we receive is upheld. Removed content is marked in place (“[removed following a complaint]” or “[removed: legal requirement]”, with the date) so the record shows something was there; the marker never says who was right. If something on TPS defames you, shows your personal information, or otherwise shouldn’t be here, tell us at /report — you don’t need an account. Where a complaint tells us who you are, what the content is and where it is, and why it shouldn’t be here, we take reasonable steps within 7 days, which usually means restricting access to the content while we assess it, then deciding. Think before you post; the composer will remind you.

6. Your content, your licence to us. Runs you submit are licensed to us under the Data Terms — that’s the licence that lets TPS exist and the dataset be licensed. Everything else you write on TPS (votes, flag notes, appeal posts, your profile) you licence us to publish and retain, permanently, so the public record works. Your community activity — votes, flag notes, and appeal posts — is not part of the dataset we license to others.

7. Don’t scrape-and-republish. Quoting, charting, and citing TPS results with credit is free — see the Data Terms. Bulk-copying the database, mirroring it, or republishing it as a dataset needs our permission.

8. Accounts. We can suspend or close accounts that break these rules. You can delete your account any time: your handle, profile, and evidence files are removed — immediately from live systems, from backups within 35 days — and your results stay on the leaderboard with your handle and any link to your account removed. If we close your account, the same removals happen. One honest caveat: where your handle was typed into appeal threads or moderation notes, we scrub it as best we can, but quotes and paraphrases can survive in that free text — the Privacy Policy explains exactly what happens. If we closed your account for repeat infringement, we keep a scrambled (hashed) record of its email address so the same address can’t open another account; the Privacy Policy says how long. Withdrawing a run (before deletion) is the stronger removal action.

9. The numbers are community-submitted and unverified. TPS publishes what the community submits. We don’t verify runs, and a leaderboard position is not advice. Don’t make purchasing or engineering decisions on a single run. To the extent the law allows: we’re not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss from relying on submitted data; and our total liability to you, across everything these terms cover, is capped at the greater of AUD $100 and whatever you’ve paid us in the 12 months before the claim. That cap doesn’t apply to death or personal injury caused by our negligence, to fraud, or to any liability the law doesn’t let us limit. The same cap applies to your liability to us, except for deliberate wrongdoing: fabricating runs, uploading things you know infringe someone’s rights, or exposing someone’s personal information. Nothing in these terms excludes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law or other laws that can’t be excluded, and for those rights our liability is limited only as far as those laws themselves allow.

10. We’re independent. Hardware, product, and model names on TPS belong to their owners. TPS isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them.

11. How moderation works. Community flags queue a run for review; every decision to demote or remove content on TPS is made by a person, not an algorithm — automated tools do no more than sort the queue. Moderators work from the published run data and the stated methodology, and their notes are public. If we demote your run or remove something you posted, we’ll also tell you privately why: the facts we relied on, the rule or method that applied, and how to challenge it — by appeal on the run page, or via /report.

12. TPS may change or go away. TPS is provided as-is, without a promise of uptime. We can change features, suspend the service for maintenance, or discontinue TPS; if we discontinue it, we’ll give as much notice on the site as we reasonably can, and the withdrawal tool stays available until the site goes dark. Events outside our reasonable control — outages, attacks, disasters, changes in law — can interrupt the service, and to the extent the law allows we’re not responsible for those interruptions. Clause 9’s last sentence applies here too.

13. Changes, law, and the rest. If we change these terms we’ll announce it on the site; material changes get a notice you’ll see, and submitting a run — or writing your first flag note or appeal post after a change — requires accepting the current version. If the TPS business is sold, merged, or restructured, these terms can be assigned to whoever takes it over. If we don’t enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later. These terms are governed by the law of Victoria, Australia; disputes can be brought in Victorian courts (non-exclusively — mandatory consumer protections where you live are unaffected). If one clause fails, the rest stand.