The community charter.
The Calculated Degens Discord is the members-only community of The Degenerates Journal, part of the Ultimate Degen membership. These are its rules — published here, in plain language, before anyone pays for anything. By joining the server you agree to them. They exist for one reason: a room where people learn out loud is only useful if what is said in it can be trusted.
The rules
1. No market manipulation, no coordinated trading. Do not organise, encourage, or take part in coordinated buying or selling, pump-and-dump activity, wash activity, or anything designed to move a price for the room’s benefit. Talking about a name is discussion; organising action in it is manipulation, and it ends membership.
2. No misrepresenting your trades or positions. Post your real record or none. No edited screenshots presented as results, no wins without the losses, no claiming a trade you did not take. The journal grades its own registered statements at the close, right or wrong; the room is held to the same standard.
3. Disclose a position when you post about a name. If you hold a stock or option you are discussing, say so in the post — long, short, options, or none. One line is enough. Readers weigh words differently when they know the speaker’s book, and in this room they always know.
4. No advice, no signals. Nothing in the server is financial advice, a trade call, or a recommendation — from members or from the desk. Share process, reasoning, and what you are watching; never tell another member what to buy or sell, and never follow anyone who does.
5. Keep it a working room. No spam, no promotion of outside services or servers, no harassment, and no sharing members-only material outside the server. Disagreement about a trade is welcome; abuse is not.
What moderation does
Moderators may remove posts that break these rules, mute or remove members who repeat the behaviour, and remove immediately — without warning — for manipulation, coordinated trading, or misrepresentation. Membership fees are not refunded for a removal under this charter. Decisions can be appealed to the desk once, in the open, and the desk’s answer is final.
From the community
Once a month, one piece in the journal’s public pages is written by a member. From the Community is a governed contributor slot: a lesson learned, a process walk-through, a mistake worked through in the open — education, in plain English, in the journal’s voice standard. It is never a trade call, never a recommendation, and never a promotion.
Every From the Community piece is desk-edited before it publishes, carries the author’s byline, carries the same per-piece position disclosure as the desk’s own work, and prints an editor’s note on what was checked. A piece that cannot be checked does not run. Members pitch the desk in the Discord community, in the open — the desk chooses on one test: will a reader who never trades this name learn something true?
The slot is new: the first piece has not run yet. When it does, it will appear here and on the education hub, labelled From the Community.
The standing line
The Degenerates Journal is reader-funded; our only revenue is memberships. Nobody pays to be covered, ranked, or mentioned — and in the community, nobody buys a louder voice. Education only. Not financial advice.