In short, yes. 😨
If a user is seen to be damaging the community or our catalog of lyrics, either through contributions or general behaviour, Musixmatch reserves the right to downgrade their status. 👎
Conditions for status downgrades differ based on the user’s role.
The following behavior will result in users of any role losing their status:
🎼 In contributions:
Falsely reporting songs with lyrics as ‘Instrumental’
Submitting explicit, offensive, political, or religious lyrics/translations not heard in the audio
Examples of self-promoting (adding social media handles, etc. to lyrics) not heard in the audio
👫 In the community:
Not following the Musixmatch Community Behavior Policy
Asking for/publishing answers to the Academy or Curator Test
Alongside these, the following additional behavior will result in Curators or Specialists losing their status:
🎼 In contributions:
Breaking The Curator Pledge, accepted in the submission of the Curator Test
Having more than one Curator account
Attempting to receive rewards via the bank/Paypal account of someone else
Long periods of inactivity (3 months)
Any attempts to abuse/cheat the mission system
👫 In the community:
Failure to respond to messages from Musixmatch staff members (via either Slack or Email)
Any of the above behaviors can result in the loss of a user’s status after 0, 1, or 2 written warnings depending on the severity of the case. Again depending on the case's severity, downgrades will either be temporary or permanent. The rewards of downgraded Curators and Specialists will be paused or delivered also based on the case in question.
For users who have had their Curator status revoked. Setting up a new Curator account in order to bypass the conditions of the downgrade will result in a direct ban of all accounts, present and future.
For any further doubts, you can check out our Downgrades FAQ page.
The majority of users work very hard and contribute high-quality lyrics. 🎶 🧡 The warning and downgrade system is necessary for the minority who do not. 😔 It is essential in maintaining the quality of content for which we all, as a community, pride ourselves on. 🙌