Community Guidelines

1. Where these apply

Everywhere other people can see or receive what you make:

• Explore — Qlists, questions and journeys you publish, the resources attached to them, and the author name on them. Anyone can read the listings, and the first lines of their resources, on the web and find them in search, not only members.
• Community — community posts you create and the responses you give. A community post and its responses are seen by the audience it was posted to: Public is every signed-in member, and My circle is the poster's connections. They stay inside the app, not on the public web.
• Groups — group names and descriptions, discussion boards, and shared runs.
• Your profile — your name, handle, bio and photo. If you turn on your creator page (creator pages are for people 18 or older), they are public on the web too, at stopaskgo.app/@yourhandle.
• What you send — Qlists and questions you send to people, requests, and invitations.

Private doesn't mean anything goes

We don't routinely look at your private answers, journal or recordings. But some things aren't allowed anywhere on Stop Ask Go — including in your private account: sexually explicit material, anything that sexualizes minors, and anything illegal (section 3). Photos, videos and recordings you upload may be checked by automated systems for this kind of content, and anything flagged may be reviewed by a person and removed. If something private is shared with someone and they report it, these guidelines apply to what was shared. And private doesn't place anything beyond the law: we respond to valid legal requests, as our Privacy Policy explains.

2. The short version

• Ask real questions and take other people's responses seriously.
• Disagree with ideas, never attack people.
• What someone shares with you in trust stays with you.
• Only reach out to people who'd expect to hear from you.
• Be who you are, and publish only what's yours to publish.

3. What isn't allowed

Harassment and bullying

Targeting someone with insults, threats, humiliation or unwanted, repeated contact; piling on; encouraging others to harass someone; or using a question as a vehicle to demean the person asked. Sending requests or invitations to someone who has made clear they don't want them.

Hate

Attacking or demeaning people because of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, serious illness or age — including slurs, dehumanizing language and hateful symbols.

Sexual content, and anything involving minors

Sexually explicit photos, videos or recordings aren't allowed on Stop Ask Go — in shared spaces or in your private account. Any content that sexualizes minors is removed immediately, the account is closed, and we report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and other authorities, as the law requires.

Violence, threats and dangerous activity

Threatening or inciting violence, praising violent acts, or promoting dangerous or illegal activity. Content that encourages self-harm or suicide is removed; if someone seems to be at risk, we may reach out with resources.

Spam and manipulation

Bulk or unsolicited messages, requests or invitations; advertising disguised as Qlists or posts; misleading titles; fake engagement; or using the service to collect people's contact details.

Impersonation and deception

Pretending to be another person or organization, or implying an affiliation that doesn't exist — in your profile, your handle or anything you publish.

Other people's privacy

Publishing or passing on someone else's answers, private information, photos or recordings without their permission. Replies to your requests are yours to keep, not to broadcast.

Other people's work

Publishing Qlists, questions, resources or media you don't have the right to share — including copying another author's published work and presenting it as your own.

Anything illegal

Using Stop Ask Go to break the law or to help someone else break it.

4. Publishing to Explore

Everything submitted to Explore is reviewed by our team before it appears, including the resources attached to it and any photos, recordings and videos in them. Once it does, anyone can read it on the web, under its author name (the credit line approved with it, or the author's current display name), and search engines can show it. A change to it or its resources reaches Explore only when we approve an update. On top of section 3, we look for:

• Your own work, or work you have the right to publish.
• A title and description that honestly say what it is.
• Questions that are genuinely useful to someone else — not ads, sign-ups, or links elsewhere.
• No medical, legal or financial claims. Reflection is not treatment or professional advice.

Your creator page, if you turn it on, puts your name, handle, bio and photo on the open web beside what you've published. Creator pages are for people 18 or older, and turning one on means confirming you are. It isn't reviewed before it appears, but section 3 applies to all of it, impersonation especially.

We may decline a submission, or take a published one down, without it having broken a rule — Explore is curated.

5. Groups

Each group's facilitators can set rules of their own, and can remove posts that break them. Group rules add to these guidelines; they can never allow something these guidelines don't. Facilitators are held to these guidelines too — if the problem is a facilitator, report it to us directly.

6. Blocking and reporting

• Block anyone from their profile or one of their posts. Neither of you can then connect, send, request, invite or mention the other, and you won't see their community posts, responses or other activity. They aren't told. Unblock them in Settings.
• Report a person, a community post or a response, a group post, a group or an Explore listing from its menu. A creator page has no report option of its own: report the person, or one of their listings. Reports go to our team, not to the person reported, and aren't shared with them.
• No account? You can't report from a public page. Write to support@stopaskgo.com with the page's address and what's wrong with it.
• If you think someone is in danger, contact local emergency services first.

7. What we do

Some words are refused before they're posted: group names, posts and rules, community posts and responses, profiles, and Explore listings are checked against a word list when you save them. Beyond that, we act on reports from people, and on content flagged by automated checks where we use them. We act in proportion to what happened, how serious it is, and whether it has happened before. We may:

• remove a post, or take an Explore listing or a creator page down. A creator page we take down stays down until we restore it (see section 8); its owner can't switch it back on. What we take down leaves our pages within about 15 minutes, and a listing featured on this website leaves when the site is next rebuilt; search engines may show it for a while longer;
• close a group;
• change a handle that impersonates someone or breaks these rules. Nobody can take the old handle, and the old address doesn't lead to the new one;
• suspend an account. A suspended account can still sign in, read what's in it and export its runs and Qlists, but can't create, send, share or publish anything. It is removed from people search and Explore, and its listings and creator page come off the web;
• close an account for the most serious or repeated violations.

Where we can, we tell you what we did and why. Some things — anything involving minors, credible threats, or illegal activity — are acted on immediately, may be reported to the authorities, and aren't open to a second chance.

8. Appeals

If you think we got it wrong, write to support@stopaskgo.com from the email on your account, and say what you'd like us to look at again. Every action our team takes is recorded, so someone who wasn't involved can review it. We'll answer.

9. Changes

As the community grows these guidelines will too. When they change we'll update the date above and tell you before a significant change takes effect.