Community Guidelines

Treat the BCINexus community like a lab meeting with colleagues you respect: critique the work hard, treat the people well. These guidelines apply to all community spaces — published studies, comments, reviews, discussions, profiles, and shared projects. They sit alongside the Terms of Service, the Acceptable Use Policy, and (for reviewers) the Reviewer Agreement.

- Critique methods, data, and claims — never nationality, institution, gender, race, religion, age, disability, or beliefs - No harassment, hate speech, threats, or personal attacks. Not even dressed up as "blunt scientific feedback" - Disagree with evidence. "This baseline is missing" helps; "this is garbage" doesn't - Assume good faith first — many contributors are students or working in a second language

- Publish only work you have the rights to publish, with credit to co-authors and sources - Describe your studies and results accurately — no inflated benchmarks, cherry-picked runs, or fabricated reproducibility claims - Disclose limitations and known issues. A study with honest caveats is worth more than a perfect-looking one that isn't - Mark AI-generated content as such when it forms a substantial part of a submission - No spam, undisclosed self-promotion rings, or duplicate submissions under multiple identities

- Don't republish someone else's study, dataset, or model as your own — attribution and license terms travel with the work - Never attempt to re-identify participants in shared datasets - Honor the visibility settings of shared projects; private means private - If you build on published community work, say so. Credit costs nothing

Community review is the backbone of BCINexus quality. Don't manipulate it: no reviewing your own work through other accounts, no coordinated voting or review exchanges, no retaliation against reviewers who rejected your submission. Reviewer conduct is additionally governed by the Reviewer Agreement.

Report violations with the in-product report tools or by emailing [email protected]. Don't pile onto violators publicly — report and move on. Moderation actions range from content removal and warnings to community restrictions and account termination for repeated or severe violations, as described in the Terms of Service. If you believe a moderation decision was wrong, appeal to [email protected] from your account email.