Community guidelines
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Note for review: these guidelines are part of the terms of service (section 4). They must be reviewed by a lawyer before publishing, in particular the scope of conduct outside Tagsora (section 3), the wording of “glorification” and “apology”, and the blocklist (section 5).
Tagsora is for learning, saving and sharing in good faith. It is a knowledge tool and a fun one, and we want it to stay that way for everyone. If what you are about to publish is meant to hurt someone, this is not the place.
1. What they apply to
Everything other people see: your profile, your username and display name, your avatar, and the links, highlights, collections and compilations you make public or share with other members, as well as comments.
We do not review what you keep private. We only act on it if an authority requires it or if we receive a report with evidence that an account is being used to commit a crime.
2. What doesn’t belong on Tagsora
In anything public or shared:
- Crimes and unlawful content, or knowingly linking to it.
- Violence: inciting it, threatening, glorifying it or defending it.
- Terrorism and violent extremism: glorification, propaganda, recruitment, or praise of terrorist organisations or attacks.
- Hate: attacking, dehumanising or inciting discrimination against people because of their origin, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, illness or age. This includes racism, xenophobia, homophobia and anti-LGBTQ+ hate, sexism and misogyny, antisemitism and Islamophobia.
- Glorifying fascism, Nazism or other totalitarian regimes, their crimes or those responsible, and using their symbols to that end.
- Harassment, intimidation and doxxing: targeting people, publishing their personal data without consent or encouraging others to attack them.
- Sexual content involving minors, in any form. We report it to the authorities.
- Explicit sexual content on your profile or in anything public.
- Spam, fraud and impersonation: deceiving, scamming or pretending to be another person or organisation.
- Infringing third-party rights, including intellectual property.
What is allowed: quoting, studying, criticising or documenting these phenomena for informational, academic, historical or journalistic purposes. A compilation of quotes about the rise of fascism for a history class is the opposite of glorifying it. We judge intent and context, not isolated words: these guidelines don’t ban topics, they ban doing harm.
3. What you do outside Tagsora
These guidelines apply to what you do on or through Tagsora. We only take into account what you do elsewhere if an authority or a court tells us about it, or if it is a credible threat against people who use Tagsora.
4. What we do when someone breaks them
We act on what is reported to us or what we see; we cannot review everything. Measures are graduated:
| Measure | When |
|---|---|
| Unpublish the content (it stays in your library) | A first minor breach. |
| Unpublish the whole profile and warn that the next step is a ban | A second breach. |
| Suspend the account for 7 to 30 days | A third breach, or serious conduct that is not severe. |
| Ban: close the account and stop it from coming back | Repeating after a suspension, or a single severe case. |
Severe cases, which lead to an immediate ban with no prior warning or time to export data: terrorism, child sexual abuse, credible threats, incitement to or glorification of violence, doxxing and organised hate campaigns. When they are crimes, we keep the evidence and report them to the authorities where appropriate.
While an account is suspended, nothing it published is visible.
5. Bans
When we ban an account:
- we suspend it immediately;
- we keep an encrypted fingerprint (a hash, not the address itself) of its email address to stop it from signing up again with it;
- we write to you with the reason and how to appeal;
- once the appeal period (14 days) is over, we delete the account and its data, except anything an authority requires us to keep.
The privacy policy explains that processing.
6. We explain it and you can appeal
If we take a measure on your content or account, we write to tell you what content or conduct, which rule it breaks, what measure we took and until when, and how to appeal. We only leave out the details if the law or an investigation requires it.
To appeal, reply to that email within 14 days. A person reviews it, not an automated process, and we answer within about 7 days. If you are right, we reverse the measure.
No measure is decided by an algorithm or by artificial intelligence.
7. Reporting
If you see something that breaks these guidelines, use “Report” in the app or write to hola@tagsora.com with the link and the reason. We check every report before acting: a report alone is not enough, and repeatedly reporting in bad faith also breaks these guidelines.