Community Guidelines

01Build a useful professional community

Ident.ink is for genuine people, teams, organisations and projects to publish work, build professional relationships and communicate. Be accurate about who you are, give others useful context, and respect their time and boundaries.

02Be authentic

• Use an identity you are entitled to represent.
• Clearly label parody, fan, sponsored and synthetic material when context could mislead.
• Do not buy engagement, operate account farms, coordinate fake recommendations or manipulate discovery.

03Protect people

• No exploitation of children, non-consensual intimate material, trafficking, threats or encouragement of real-world violence.
• No hate, targeted harassment, doxxing, stalking or persistent unwanted messages.
• If there is immediate danger, contact emergency services before making a platform report.

04Keep content useful

• Do not flood feeds, replies or inboxes with repetitive promotions.
• Share work, opportunities and claims you can substantiate.
• Do not post malware, phishing links, deceptive downloads or low-value pages made only for search or advertising manipulation.

05Respect the platform boundary

Use only the features, APIs and integrations deliberately provided to your account. Attempts to access server files, secrets, internal services, another tenant or restricted administration are not experimentation or ordinary product use. Follow security.txt for responsible disclosure.

06Use hiring and business tools responsibly

• State material terms of an opportunity honestly and do not charge deceptive application fees.
• Respect employment, equality, tax, payroll, advertising and consumer laws that apply to you.
• Never use payment or referral tools for sham work, self-referral, laundering or fabricated recipients.

07Keep commercial activity accountable

• Disclose paid, sponsored, affiliate and partner relationships clearly where they could affect how a reasonable person understands a recommendation.
• Do not publish fabricated reviews, suppress genuine negative feedback through threats, or offer an incentive conditional on a positive review.
• Keep evidence for material performance, pricing, security, environmental and customer-result claims and correct a claim that becomes inaccurate.

08Respect privacy and consent

Do not publish personal, financial, health, location or identity information without a lawful reason and appropriate permission. Do not add people to marketing lists or scrape profiles for outreach against their choices.

09Encrypted conversations still have rules

User Key and encryption can make message content unavailable to ordinary server-side review. Participants can still report content, and relevant metadata or participant-provided evidence may be used for safety. Encryption must not be used to facilitate abuse.

10Report precisely

Report the specific profile, post, project, site or message through Support. Explain what happened and include lawful evidence. Do not coordinate mass reports or submit knowingly false allegations.

11How we respond

We consider context, severity, intent, reach, harm, previous conduct and cooperation. Responses can include education, reduced reach, content removal, feature restrictions, payment holds, suspension or termination. Serious illegal or safety matters may be preserved and referred.

12Correction and restoration

A restriction may be narrowed, lifted or reversed where evidence changes, the risk is cured or an appeal succeeds. Restoration may include content reinstatement, corrected account standing or renewed feature access where technically possible and lawful.

Removal of a restriction does not require Ident.ink to erase accurate security, complaint or audit evidence that must be retained. Public explanations are limited to what can be disclosed without harming privacy, safety or an investigation.

13Appeal a decision

Use the case reference to request review under the Reports, Moderation and Appeals Policy. Explain the specific error or provide new evidence. We correct decisions when the evidence supports doing so.