Community guidelines
Set clear expectations for discussion, privacy and moderation in your TopFans community, with practical examples that support consistent decisions.
A NOTE BEFORE YOU START
Community guidelines should help a person decide what to do before a problem occurs. General requests to be nice are not enough when members disagree about critique, privacy or promotion. Explain the behaviors you welcome, the boundaries you will enforce and how members can raise a concern without escalating a public argument.
KEEP THESE IN MIND
State what a respectful contribution looks like: address the idea, explain your reasoning and avoid personal attacks. Concrete expectations are easier to follow and enforce than judgments about whether someone has the right attitude.
Explain whether private discussions, member images or feedback may be shared elsewhere. Make clear that receiving a message or joining a group does not automatically grant permission to republish another person's words.
Name the role of moderators and the available reporting route. Explain how a member should flag a concern, while avoiding public promises that every situation will have an immediate or identical outcome.
YOUR NEXT THREE STEPS
You can start with something small, then shape it as you go.
Get started on TopFansThink about the group's actual activities: critique, spoilers, personal stories, self-promotion or repeated requests. Write a specific rule for each issue that could meaningfully affect participation.
Show the difference between a useful disagreement and a personal attack, or between relevant sharing and repetitive promotion. Keep examples understandable without reproducing abusive material.
Make sure the people moderating the space interpret the guidelines similarly. Update unclear wording when a real situation reveals a gap, and tell members about meaningful changes.
No. Written expectations and the platform's role, report and moderation tools work together. A rule needs a reasonable process for handling situations when it is ignored.
Aim for clear principles and the most relevant cases. An enormous rulebook can be harder to apply than concise expectations supported by consistent, explained decisions.
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