Community Guidelines

Speak freely. Participate responsibly.

RELEC Media welcomes personal, creative, challenging, and culturally grounded work. These guidelines protect room for strong expression while setting clear boundaries around harm.

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What is welcome

  • Personal experiences, memory, testimony, and family history.
  • Fiction, humour, imagination, and creative experimentation.
  • Culture, language, traditions, art, work, and everyday life.
  • Good-faith criticism of institutions, practices, and public ideas.
  • Respectful disagreement and unpopular opinions.
  • Questions, advice, reactions, and thoughtful public debate.

What is not allowed

  • Harassment, bullying, stalking, or targeted humiliation.
  • Hate speech, dehumanisation, or exclusion based on identity.
  • Threats, incitement, or encouragement of real-world violence.
  • Sexual exploitation, non-consensual sexual material, or abuse.
  • Any content that exploits, sexualises, or endangers children.
  • Encouragement or instruction for self-harm.
  • Graphic or shocking abuse presented to harm or sensationalise.
  • Scams, spam, malicious links, or coordinated disruption.
  • Impersonation or misleading claims of identity or authority.
  • Doxxing or exposure of private and identifying information.
  • Unsupported serious criminal accusations against identifiable individuals.
  • Copyright infringement or unauthorised use of protected work.
  • Vote, reaction, ranking, or conversation manipulation.
  • Repeated behaviour intended to make participation unsafe or unusable.

When a story involves other people

Consider consent, privacy, safety, and whether identifying details are necessary. A personal experience can be yours to tell without making every private fact about another person appropriate to publish. Fiction must not be used as a disguise for doxxing or an unsupported allegation against an identifiable person.

Possible consequences

Depending on context, severity, repetition, and risk, RELEC may issue a warning, restrict visibility, remove content, temporarily suspend an account, or permanently restrict an account. These are platform policy options and do not imply that every enforcement interface is currently automated or available to users.

Read the Moderation Policy for more about screening, editorial review, and reconsideration.