Community Guidelines & Trust & Safety

The standards that govern conduct on Grantery, and the process by which they are enforced.

This Community Guidelines policy ("Guidelines") governs all conduct and Content on Grantery and is incorporated by reference into the Grantery Terms of Service. By accessing or using Grantery, you agree to abide by these Guidelines.

1. Definitions

For the purposes of this policy, the following terms apply throughout:

"Platform" refers to Grantery, including its website, applications, and all associated services.

"User" refers to any individual who creates, accesses, or maintains an account on the Platform.

"Content" refers to any post, comment, image, video, livestream, message, profile element, or other material submitted, uploaded, or transmitted by a User on the Platform.

"Trusted User" refers to a community member designated under Section 2 of the Trust & Safety policy to review reported Content.

"Report" refers to a formal flag submitted by a User identifying Content believed to violate these Guidelines.

"Violation" refers to any Content or conduct determined, through the review process described in the Trust & Safety policy, to breach one or more provisions of these Guidelines.

2. General Standard of Conduct

Grantery is built on the principle that the value of a User's contribution is not determined by audience size, follower count, or platform tenure. Conduct that undermines the safety, dignity, or good-faith participation of other Users is prohibited without exception. The categories below are illustrative, not exhaustive, and the Platform reserves the right to act on conduct that violates the spirit of these Guidelines even where not explicitly enumerated.

3. Prohibited Categories of Content and Conduct

3.1 Harassment

Content or conduct directed at a specific individual or group with the intent or reasonably foreseeable effect of degrading, intimidating, or causing distress is prohibited. This includes repeated unwanted contact, targeted insults, threats, and coordinated efforts by multiple Users to harass a single individual.

3.2 Hate Speech

Content that promotes, glorifies, or incites violence, discrimination, or hatred against individuals or groups on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or veteran status is prohibited.

3.3 Spam

Repetitive, unsolicited, or automated Content posted for the purpose of manipulating visibility, engagement metrics, or distribution is prohibited. This includes coordinated inauthentic activity and the use of bot networks or fake accounts to amplify Content.

3.4 Doxxing

The publication of another individual's private or identifying information — including but not limited to home address, place of employment, phone number, financial information, or government identification — without that individual's consent and with intent to harass, intimidate, or expose them to harm is prohibited.

3.5 Impersonation

Creating or operating an account that misrepresents its affiliation with, or identity as, another individual, brand, or organization, in a manner intended to deceive, is prohibited. This does not apply to clearly labeled parody, fan, or commentary accounts.

3.6 Sexually Explicit or Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) Content

Content depicting explicit sexual acts, exposed genitalia, or material primarily intended for sexual gratification is prohibited. This provision applies regardless of whether the subject matter is real, illustrated, or generated.

3.7 Animal Cruelty or Abuse

Content that depicts, glorifies, promotes, or provides instruction for the infliction of unnecessary suffering, injury, or death upon an animal is prohibited. This includes Content that frames such acts as entertainment.

3.8 Poaching and Illegal Wildlife Trade

Content that facilitates, advertises, solicits, or documents the illegal hunting, capture, trade, or trafficking of wildlife or wildlife parts is prohibited, including Content that identifies specific locations of protected or endangered species for the purpose of enabling such activity.

3.9 Incitement to Harm Animals or Wildlife

Content that encourages, solicits, or provides actionable guidance for causing harm to animals or wildlife, whether domestic, wild, or protected, is prohibited.

3.10 Conservation and Wildlife Misinformation

Content that knowingly misrepresents established conservation science, wildlife trade law, or animal welfare practice, where such misrepresentation is reasonably likely to cause harm to animals, ecosystems, or public understanding, is prohibited.

3.11 Exploitation of Protected or Endangered Species

Content that encourages or facilitates unauthorized contact with, disturbance of, or approach to protected or endangered species, including the disclosure of sensitive location data (such as nesting, denning, or breeding sites) likely to result in such disturbance, is prohibited.

4. Scope and Future Amendment

The categories enumerated in Section 3 reflect the Platform's current enforcement priorities and may be expanded, narrowed, or clarified over time as the Platform and its community evolve. Material changes to this policy will be reflected on this page.

5. Enforcement

Violations of this policy are reviewed and enforced in accordance with the Trust & Safety policy set out in the adjacent tab, which governs the reporting, review, and appeals process in full.

This Trust & Safety policy ("Policy") governs how reports of Violations are submitted, reviewed, and resolved on Grantery, and the consequences that apply to confirmed Violations and to Reports submitted in bad faith. This Policy is incorporated by reference into the Grantery Terms of Service.

1. Foundational Principle

Grantery is built to be free of bullying and toxicity. Conduct that violates the Community Guidelines is not merely discouraged — it is not tolerated, and the procedures described below exist to enforce that standard consistently and transparently. Grantery further holds that Users who participate in the Platform in good standing should have a meaningful role in how the Platform is moderated. Moderation under this Policy is not conducted exclusively by Platform staff; it is conducted in significant part by the community itself.

2. Submission of Reports

2.1. Any User may submit a Report against any Content or account believed to violate the Community Guidelines. The ability to submit a Report is available to all Users without restriction or precondition.

2.2. A Report must be submitted in good faith — meaning the reporting User holds a genuine belief that the reported Content violates the Community Guidelines. A Report submitted because the reporting User merely disagrees with, dislikes, or is annoyed by Content that does not otherwise violate the Guidelines does not satisfy this standard. Section 6 of this Policy governs the consequences of repeated failure to meet this standard.

3. Review Process

3.1. No Report results in the automatic removal of Content. The Platform does not operate on a threshold model in which a sufficient volume of Reports alone triggers removal, as such models are readily weaponized through coordinated reporting campaigns against Content that has not violated any provision of the Guidelines.

3.2. Every Report is reviewed by a person prior to any permanent action being taken against the reported Content or account. Review occurs through one of the following two mechanisms:

(a) Trusted User Review. A Trusted User, as defined and designated under Section 5 of this Policy, evaluates the Report against the Community Guidelines and renders a determination.

(b) Creator Livestream Review. A Creator may elect to review Reports openly, via livestream, with the Creator's audience present and able to observe the proceeding. Where this mechanism is used, the review is conducted publicly rather than through a closed process.

4. Outcomes and Appeals

4.1. Notification. Where Content is removed pursuant to this Policy, the affected User will be notified of the removal and provided with the specific basis for the determination. Silent or unexplained removal of Content is not Platform practice.

4.2. Appeal. A User who disputes a determination made under this Policy may request that the determination be reconsidered. Any such reconsideration will be conducted by a reviewer who was not party to the original determination.

4.3. Escalation and Bans. Repeated or sufficiently severe confirmed Violations result in suspension or permanent ban from the Platform, at the Platform's determination. Circumvention of a ban through the creation of a new account constitutes a separate and independent Violation of these Guidelines.

5. Trusted Users

5.1. Trusted User status is not obtained through application and is not available on request. Trusted Users are identified jointly by the community and the Platform on the basis of sustained, demonstrated good standing over an extended period of participation on the Platform.

5.2. A User who has consistently demonstrated conduct that reflects well on the Platform's community may be invited to take on Trusted User responsibilities. This designation is extended at the Platform's discretion and is not guaranteed to any User regardless of tenure or contribution.

6. Bad-Faith Reporting

6.1. An isolated Report that, upon review, is determined not to constitute a Violation does not by itself subject the reporting User to any penalty. The Platform recognizes that Users may, on occasion, submit a Report in error or in good-faith misjudgment.

6.2. A demonstrated pattern of Reports submitted against Content that does not constitute a Violation, particularly where such Content is not reasonably borderline or ambiguous, constitutes bad-faith reporting and is treated as a Violation in its own right.

6.3. Bad-faith reporting is subject to the same escalating consequence structure set out in Section 4.3 of this Policy as any other Violation. No distinction is made in severity of consequence between a User found to have violated the Community Guidelines directly and a User found to have engaged in a pattern of bad-faith reporting.

6.4. This provision exists specifically to prevent the use of the reporting system as an instrument of harassment, including coordinated mass-reporting intended to remove Content or suspend an account without an underlying Violation having occurred.

7. Rationale

This Policy is structured to avoid two failure modes common to other platforms: fully automated systems that can be manipulated through coordinated reporting, and systems that lack meaningful enforcement against confirmed Violations. The Policy accomplishes this through human review prior to any permanent action, transparency to affected Users regarding the basis for any determination, and bidirectional accountability under which both rule-breaking Users and bad-faith reporters are subject to the same consequence structure.

8. Ongoing Development

Certain operational details under this Policy — including the precise escalation thresholds referenced in Section 4.3, the full criteria governing Trusted User designation under Section 5, and the long-term structure of the appeals process under Section 4.2 — remain under active development. The Platform has elected to refine these mechanisms based on observed community use rather than finalize them prematurely. This page will be updated as these details are confirmed.