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Advocacy and Solicitation Policy

Field Value
policy-id DIA-ADVOCACY-SOLICITATION-001
type Constitutional operational act / communication surface policy
version 0.1.0-draft
date 2026-05-27
basis Constitution Art. XV, XVI; Participant Covenant; Proposal 051

Purpose

Orbiplex should let people disagree, organize, and speak across worldview differences. It should not let shared communication surfaces become cheap channels for unsolicited persuasion, astroturfing, hidden sponsorship, or mass targeting.

This policy regulates surface use, not beliefs.

Rule

Political, ideological, religious, campaign, and other advocacy content is allowed on explicitly marked opt-in surfaces. Unsolicited persuasion, hidden sponsorship, mass direct-message campaigns, and manipulative targeting are abuse of shared communication surfaces.

Surface Requirements

Advocacy or solicitation surfaces should require:

  • explicit opt-in by recipients,
  • clear tags such as advocacy/political, advocacy/ideological, advocacy/religious, solicitation/commercial, or campaign,
  • disclosure of material sponsorship and conflicts of interest,
  • no political or ideological DM to unrelated recipients without prior consent,
  • no astroturfing or synthetic consensus,
  • rate limits and review for high fan-out behavior.

Enforcement

Violations may produce:

  • rate limits,
  • DM restrictions,
  • content quarantine,
  • campaign surface suspension,
  • procedural reputation signals,
  • sponsor review when sponsorship enabled the abuse,
  • or stronger sanctions under the Membership and Sponsorship Policy.

Ordinary disagreement and opt-in advocacy are not violations. The abuse is the non-consensual use of influence surfaces.