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Community Guidelines

Short, enforceable, and applied by humans.

  1. 1. Respect your neighbors

    Harassment, gatekeeping, and racial, gender, or orientation-based abuse are not tolerated.

  2. 2. Report, don’t retaliate

    Every post, profile, and message has a report action. Use it instead of escalating in public.

  3. 3. Context over censorship

    Posts about mental health are labelled and connected to resources rather than deleted.

  4. 4. Credit creators

    Do not repost artwork, photography, or music without attribution and permission.

  5. 5. Keep commerce ethical

    Do not use the platform to sell services to neighbors in crisis, and disclose any financial interest you have in a project you post about.

Appeals

Every moderation action can be appealed. Appeals are reviewed by a different moderator than the one who made the original decision.

Sourcing standard for company records

The company pages in our national directory make factual claims about named businesses and named people. The standard for those claims is stricter than for a forum post, because the cost of being wrong falls on someone else.

1. Every published fact cites a public source

A company record, a named person, an ownership link or a benefit claim cannot be published without a source URL. Acceptable sources are public records: SEC filings, state corporate registries, utility commission dockets, and a company's own published filings. The database enforces this — a record without a source cannot reach the published state.

2. Label how well each claim is evidenced

  • Documented — stated in a filing, docket or official record. Link it.
  • Reported — reported by press coverage. Link it, and name the outlet.
  • Alleged — a community claim that no official record confirms. It must be written so it cannot be read as fact, and the page will frame it as an unverified claim.

Never upgrade a claim's confidence to make a page read more strongly.

3. People: public figures, from filings only

Name an executive, owner or board member only when a public filing names them in that role, and mark them as a public figure. Their contact details may be recorded only when that filing itself publishes them, and only with the filing cited. No home addresses. No personal email addresses that are not already in a public filing. No speculation about anyone's private political views or voting behaviour — record a documented financial or official relationship, never a personal attribute.

4. A second person approves every record

The staff member who creates a record can never be the one who publishes it. This is enforced in the database, not by convention. If you are the author, your publish attempt will be refused — hand it to a colleague.

5. Right of correction

A company or person named in a record can ask us to correct it. A contested published record is marked disputed and keeps its review notes rather than being quietly deleted.