Community Guidelines

1. Our Standards

VoteFlip is a place for open, honest conversation. We believe every person should feel safe sharing their opinion, voting on topics they care about, and engaging with fellow community members. To make that possible we ask everyone to follow these guidelines.

• Be respectful — disagree with ideas, not with people. Personal attacks, insults, and name-calling have no place here.
• Be honest — vote sincerely. Don't use bots, multiple accounts, or coordinated groups to manipulate results.
• Be constructive — add value to conversations. Low-effort spam, trolling, and off-topic derailing harm the experience for everyone.
• Respect privacy — don't share other people's personal information without their consent.

2. Prohibited Content

The following types of content are not allowed on VoteFlip. Polls, comments, profile information, or any other user-generated content that contains or promotes:

• Hate speech — content that attacks, demeans, or incites violence against individuals or groups based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
• Harassment & bullying — targeted abuse, threats, intimidation, doxxing (sharing private information), or any behaviour intended to harm or silence another person.
• Violence & dangerous activity — glorifying or encouraging self-harm, violence, terrorism, or dangerous challenges.
• Sexually explicit or NSFW content — pornography, sexually suggestive images, or solicitation.
• Misinformation — deliberately false or misleading claims about health, elections, emergencies, or other topics where inaccuracy causes real-world harm.
• Spam & scams — unsolicited advertising, phishing links, pyramid schemes, cryptocurrency scams, or repetitive off-topic posts.
• Vote manipulation — using multiple accounts, bots, scripts, or coordinated campaigns to artificially inflate or deflate poll results.
• Impersonation — pretending to be another person, brand, or organisation in a deceptive way.
• Illegal activity — content that promotes or facilitates illegal actions, including drug sales, weapons trafficking, or intellectual property theft.
• Content involving minors — any content that exploits, endangers, or sexualises minors will result in immediate permanent ban and may be reported to law enforcement.

3. Enforcement

When a violation is confirmed our moderation team takes action proportional to the severity:

Polls and comments with 5 or more reports are automatically hidden pending manual review. Reports never automatically ban a profile or hide a private message.

4. Reporting

If you see content that violates these guidelines, please report it:

1. Open the poll, comment, message, or profile you want to report.
2. Select Report.
3. Choose the reason that best describes the violation (spam, inappropriate, misinformation, harassment, or other).

Reports are reviewed as soon as practical. You won't receive details about another user's moderation outcome, but action will be taken where warranted.

To notify VoteFlip about specific content that you believe is illegal under EU or national law, use the separate illegal-content notice form. VoteFlip will acknowledge that notice and inform the notifier of the decision.

5. Appeals

If you believe your content was removed or your account was suspended in error, you can appeal the decision:

Submit the appeal through the moderation appeals page linked to the affected content or account and explain why you believe the decision should be changed. Appeals are reviewed without charge and as soon as practical.

We are committed to fair and transparent moderation. If we made a mistake, we will reverse the action and notify you.

6. Changes to These Guidelines

We may update these guidelines as the platform evolves. Significant changes will be announced via an in-app notification and updated on this page with a new “Last updated” date.