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Threefold Dictum

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Updates

What has changed here, in plain terms. Changes to theTerms of Use and thePrivacy Policy are recorded here too.

  1. Comments, pictures, and how much you can post

    Comments arrive, profiles get pictures, and there are now limits on how much one person can post in a day.

    Comments

    Published articles can now be commented on. Comments need an account — reading still needs nothing — and they appear immediately, without waiting for review.

    They are capped at 600 characters. That is deliberate: a comment is a remark, and anything worth more than a few sentences is worth writing as a response article, which is reviewed and sits under the piece it answers.

    Because comments are not read by a moderator first, they pass a short language check. Ordinary disagreement is fine; slurs and swearing are not. If yours is refused, the message says why.

    You can remove your own comments at any time. Moderators can remove any comment.

    Profile pictures

    You can now add a picture to your profile, up to 2 MB.

    Profiles can be changed once every 48 hours. Names and pictures that change constantly make a forum harder to follow, and this is a place where knowing who you are reading matters.

    Limits on posting

    Every account can now publish:

    • 2 articles every 36 hours
    • 3 response articles every 36 hours
    • 5 comments every 24 hours

    Articles are capped at 50,000 characters, counted on the writing rather than the formatting — italics do not eat your allowance. If a particular piece genuinely needs more room, there is a link on the writing page to ask for it.

    None of these are meant to be restrictive for anyone writing in good faith. They exist so that one person cannot flood the site faster than it can be read.

  2. The site opens

    Threefold Dictum goes live, with writing, review, and a searchable forum.

    The site is live at threedictum.com. Here is what it does today.

    Reading

    Anyone can read, with no account. The Forum holds everything published, and can be searched by an article’s title or by who wrote it, and filtered by subject. The subjects shown are the ones the most has actually been written under — nothing is invented to fill the space.

    There are three colour themes — light, dark, and a true black for OLED screens. The choice is remembered in your browser and never leaves it.

    Writing

    Signing in needs no password. You either continue with a Google account or ask for a single-use link by email. Creating an account and signing in are the same action.

    Members write in a plain rich-text editor — no markup to learn — and tag their work with whatever subjects fit. There is no fixed list; the vocabulary is whatever people use.

    Review

    Every submission is read before it appears. What a piece argues is not moderated. How it is written is. Nothing is turned away for the position it takes; what is asked is that it was written with care. Editing something already published sends it back for review, which is deliberate.

    A published article can be answered with an article of its own, which appears beneath the piece it answers.

    Terms and privacy

    The Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are published. In short: you keep ownership of what you write, you are responsible for it, anything you did not write must be properly sourced, and copyright complaints will be acted on. We store an email address, whatever you put on your profile, and whatever you write — with no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking of any kind.

    Not built yet

    Being straight about what is missing: comments do not exist yet, and neither does a way to delete your own account — for now, ask and it will be done by hand. Both are being worked on.

The Terms of Use and Privacy Policy were last changed on 2026-07-20. Both are kept current as the site changes, and substantive changes appear on this page.