Author Terms

Last Updated: September 21, 2026

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Dashword.net, an open source Geometry Dash news outlet. Our site is made possible by generous contributors such as yourself!

In order for us to publish your Article, you'll have to let us know that you've read and agree to these Terms. We also ask that you use a consistent email address when emailing us so we can verify that it's you. If you lose access to your primary email address, you can contact us to get things sorted.

First things first: you own your Article. You're giving us permission to publish (and monetize) it, but you can ask us to remove it at any time.

Definitions

  • Terms - These Author Terms that you're reading right now.
  • Article - A written post on our website and all content therein. A full (paginated) list of Articles can be found here.
  • Author Page - A unique page that will display your information along with all your Articles (paginated). A full list of Author Pages can be found here.

Article Submission

By confirming that we can publish your Article, you agree that:

  • You own all rights to your Article and any other information you provide for us to publish on your unique Author Page (such as your avatar photo).
  • Dashword.net can publicly publish your Article with any changes made to it and monetize it without compensating you. We occasionally fix grammar issues or rewrite sections to better match our style. If you don't like these changes, you can always remove your Article by contacting us.
  • In addition to publishing your Article, you allow Dashword.net to publish an Author Page consisting of Articles of yours we publish and any of the following information you provide:
    • A username you would like your Article to be published under (this is the only required piece of information, but you can also include any of the ones below if you want)
    • An image you would like to use as an avatar
    • A short, one or two sentence bio for your Author Page
    • Your YouTube, your Twitch, your Twitter, and/or your Discord server
    • Your Geometry Dash profile name
    • A website URL you would like to show on your Author Page
  • All information on your unique Author Page will be displayed publicly on our website.
  • Your username will be used to generate a unique URL for your Author Page. It will typically be your username, but with any capitals, spaces, or special characters replaced or removed.
  • We can publish any of the above information, including information part of your Article and Author page, to other sources on the internet (including potentially irrevocable public databases). This is required because some of our systems make use of public sources on the internet to operate (such as GitHub for hosting this website's code and content). While we can remove anything from our website if you so wish, we can't remove anything from other websites we do not control.
  • We are not obligated to host your Articles or Author Page forever and can delete them from our website at any time if we so choose.

Updating/Deleting Your Articles and/or Author Page

You can make changes to or remove your Articles or Author Page by emailing us. All changes must be confirmed by us but you can remove your Articles or Author Page at any time. All Articles by you that we publish will be available on your unique Author Page.

You can request copies of your Articles or Author Page by emailing us.

Also, because all your articles are linked to your Author Page, if you wish to delete your Author Page, all of your Articles will also get deleted.

Likewise, your Author Page needs at least one published article to stay up. So if you delete all your Articles, your Author Page will also get deleted.

When requesting changes to your Articles or Author Page, you also agree that any of the new information you wish for us to publish follows these Terms.

Help

If you have any questions or need any help, you can contact us at any time.