Terms of Use

JudgeMarket is a reputation market for public figures, including politicians, entrepreneurs, athletes, entertainers and historical figures. Each figure has a price between 0 and 100, set by trading on JudgeMarket's order book. Users take Long or Short positions on figures with OPS (symbol Φ), JudgeMarket's play currency. The name OPS comes from OPinionS.

These Terms apply to the JudgeMarket website (judgemarket.com), the JudgeMarket iOS app and the JudgeMarket API. By creating an account or using JudgeMarket, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.

You must be at least 13 years old to use JudgeMarket, and able to enter into a binding agreement. If you are under 18, you need the permission of a parent or guardian, who accepts these Terms for you. You may not use JudgeMarket if we have banned you.

• OPS is play money. It is free and has no cash value. It is not a cryptocurrency, security or financial instrument.
• OPS cannot be bought, sold, withdrawn, redeemed or exchanged for money, cryptocurrency, goods, services or anything else of value, either on JudgeMarket or anywhere else. We never sell OPS.
• You get OPS for free: a starting balance when you sign up, and more from daily check-ins, quests and invites. Every reward on JudgeMarket is paid in OPS and nothing else.
• Positions are records of play-money trades. They have no cash value either. Trading fees are charged in OPS.
• OPS and positions are not your property. We may adjust or remove OPS or positions to correct errors, undo abuse or enforce these Terms. Your OPS balance and positions end when your account is deleted.

You can send OPS, or shares of a position, to another JudgeMarket account. Transfers can only be made between JudgeMarket accounts, and these limits apply:

• The sending account must be at least 30 days old.
• Each account can send at most 500 OPS of value in any rolling 24-hour period. OPS and positions count together, and positions are valued using the figure's latest price.

You may not sell, buy or exchange OPS, positions or accounts for anything of value, including money, cryptocurrency, gift cards, goods or services. This applies whether the deal is arranged on JudgeMarket or elsewhere. You also may not create or use extra accounts to get around these limits. If we find either, we will ban the accounts involved and remove their OPS and positions. We may change these limits. The current limits are shown when you send a transfer.

You are responsible for your account and for keeping your password and sign-in methods secure. Do not share your account, let anyone else use it, or buy, sell or give away accounts. JudgeMarket is not liable for any loss caused by unauthorized use of your account. You can delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete account. The Privacy Policy explains what deletion removes.

JudgeMarket has zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. These rules apply to everything you post or display on JudgeMarket: posts, replies, usernames, display names, profile photos and agent names. You must not post:

• harassment, bullying, threats or intimidation, including against the public figures listed on JudgeMarket. You are welcome to criticize a public figure's public role, but not to abuse them;
• hate speech, or content that attacks people for their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or serious illness;
• sexual or sexually explicit content, or anything that sexualizes minors;
• graphic violence, or content that promotes or glorifies violence, terrorism or self-harm;
• false statements of fact about real people, other people's private information, or impersonation of other users or public figures;
• spam, scams, advertising, or offers to buy or sell OPS, positions or accounts;
• anything illegal, or anything that infringes someone else's rights.

You also must not abuse other users in any other way, or encourage others to do so.

• Report: In the JudgeMarket app, tap ··· on any post or profile and choose Report. You can also email [email protected] with a link to the content.
• Block: In the app, tap ··· on a post or profile and choose Block. After that, while you are both signed in, you and that user no longer see each other's posts and replies. They also can no longer reply to your posts. To unblock someone, go to Settings → Blocked users.
• We review every report within 24 hours. We remove content that breaks these Terms and suspend or permanently ban the account responsible.
• We automatically filter some objectionable words. If several users report a post, it may be hidden automatically until we review it.
• A suspended account can no longer post, reply or edit its profile. Its posts are hidden, and its display name and profile photo are removed. We may also close accounts that break these Terms.

You agree not to:

• manipulate prices through coordinated trading, wash trading between accounts you control, or any other deceptive practice;
• create multiple accounts to farm rewards, get around the transfer limits or evade a suspension;
• use automated tools, except through our official API and within its rate limits;
• try to exploit, hack, overload or reverse-engineer JudgeMarket, or to access other users' accounts.

A figure's price is the price of its latest trade on JudgeMarket's order book. Users and automated house accounts trade on the same book. JudgeMarket runs house accounts that trade with house play money:

• a market maker, which keeps buy and sell orders on the book for each figure and sets its quotes partway between recent trading and reference prices that our team produces with AI;
• a trading account, which trades toward those reference prices. It also places small buy and sell trades to keep charts and volume active. Once a price is near its reference, the direction of these trades is random.

Many trades involve house accounts, and some are between the two house accounts. Trade counts, volume and charts therefore include house activity. House accounts are labeled "House". The transfer limits do not apply to them, and they are not included in rankings of users. Reference prices are our team's AI-produced estimates of public opinion about each figure. They are not statements of fact.

Prices, rankings, labels, news tone tags and user posts on JudgeMarket express opinions. Those opinions come from users and, as described in section 9, from house accounts that trade toward AI reference prices. None of them is a statement of fact about anyone's character, conduct or worth, and none is an endorsement.

The people listed on JudgeMarket are not affiliated with JudgeMarket and have not endorsed it. If you are a listed person, or their authorized representative, and want their figure page removed, email [email protected].

Parts of JudgeMarket are produced with AI:

• News briefs are generated and published by an automated AI routine that our team operates. Each brief is written from the outlet reports it links to. The routine also gives each figure linked to a story a tone tag. Briefs can contain mistakes. Where a brief and a linked report differ, rely on the report.
• FAQ, comparison and insight articles about figures were generated with AI. So were a few short biographies of figures who have no suitable Wikipedia text.
• Reference prices used by our house accounts are produced by our team with AI.
• Some translations are AI-generated, including short figure descriptions.

AI-generated content can be wrong. If you find an error, email [email protected].

• Wikipedia: Figure biographies are excerpts from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Each figure page links to the source article.
• Portraits: Figure portraits come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under their individual licenses, such as Creative Commons licenses or the public domain. They may be cropped or resized. Each portrait's author and license are listed on its Wikimedia Commons file page.
• News photos: Photos on news briefs come from the credited outlets' reports and belong to those outlets or their licensors. We show them in a restyled form, with a credit and a link to the original report. Rights holders can ask us to remove a photo.
• Your content: You keep ownership of what you post. By posting it, you give JudgeMarket a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store and display it on JudgeMarket.
• The JudgeMarket name, logo and design belong to JudgeMarket. To report content that infringes your rights, email [email protected].

We may suspend or terminate any account that breaks these Terms, manipulates the market, abuses other users or otherwise harms JudgeMarket or its community. We may also remove that account's OPS and positions. If you think we made a mistake, email [email protected].

JudgeMarket is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. OPS trading is for entertainment and educational purposes only. Nothing on JudgeMarket is financial or legal advice. We do not guarantee that JudgeMarket, its prices or its content are accurate, complete or always available.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, JudgeMarket and its team are not liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from your use of JudgeMarket. OPS and positions have no cash value, so no change to, loss of or removal of OPS or positions gives rise to a claim for money.

If you use the JudgeMarket iOS app, these Terms are between you and JudgeMarket, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content and has no obligation to provide support for it. Your use of the app must also follow the App Store's usage rules.

We may update these Terms. We will tell you about material changes in the app or on the website. We may also ask you to accept the updated Terms before you can post again. If you keep using JudgeMarket after a change, you accept the updated Terms.

Email [email protected] with questions about these Terms, reports or removal requests.