Community
Community Guidelines
Document details
Version: 1.0 (draft). Effective date: the rules below are in force in the product and are enforced as written; the legal wrapper around them is not. Last updated: 12 August 2026. Responsible entity: [SPHEROMNI RESPONSIBLE ENTITY — TBD]. Governing law and jurisdiction: [PRIMARY JURISDICTION — TBD]. Contact: [PRIVACY CONTACT — TBD].
Change history:
- Version 1.0 (Milestone 19 refresh) — adopted the shared legal boilerplate carried by every document in this set. Editorial only — no rule and no consequence changed, so the consent version stays at 1.0 and nobody is asked to accept again.
- Version 1.0 — first version, written with the Milestone 13 community platform. Every rule below is enforced by the product as written.
Who can see what you write here
The Spheromni community is a separate, opt-in part of the product. You are not in it until you create a community profile, and an account without one does not appear here at all, to anyone. When this product says a community profile or a post is “public”, it means visible to signed-in Spheromni members who have a community profile themselves. There is no community page anybody can read without signing in, and no search engine sees any of it.
Nothing from your private workspace is ever published here. Your files, their names, the apps you have open, your searches, your calendar and the display name you use for sharing stay where they are: your community identity is a separate handle, display name, bio and avatar preset that you choose for this purpose.
How to behave
Treat other members as people. Disagree with what somebody said rather than with who they are, assume the more generous reading first, and leave a conversation you cannot have respectfully.
The following are not allowed anywhere in the community — in posts, replies, bios, handles, display names, group names or group descriptions:
Harassment. Targeting a person with abuse, insults, threats, sustained unwanted attention, or encouraging others to do so. This includes publishing private information about somebody without their consent.
Hate. Attacking or demeaning people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, disability or serious disease, including slurs and hateful imagery described in text.
Sexual content. Sexually explicit material, and any sexualised content involving minors under any circumstances. Spheromni is an adults-only product today and has no age-appropriate mode; that is a reason for this rule to be stricter, not looser.
Violence. Threats of violence, glorification of violence, and content encouraging people to hurt themselves or others.
Spam. Repetitive, automated or bulk posting, deceptive links, and using the community mainly to advertise something.
Two mechanical rules back these up. Every profile has a daily limit on how much it can post, reply and report, and a tripped limit refuses the write and tells you so plainly. An administrator can also configure a list of restricted words and switch links off; when a write is refused by one of those rules you are told which rule refused it, and never shown the list itself.
What you can do about somebody else
Mute removes a person's posts and replies from your lists. It is one-sided and quiet: they can still read and reply to you, and they are never told.
Block makes you and that person invisible to each other, cuts any follow between you in both directions, and stops either of you acting on the other. They are not told either.
Report sends the content to the administrator with the reason you choose. A copy of the reported text is kept as evidence at the moment you report it, so it can still be reviewed after it is edited or deleted. Reporting somebody is not itself a punishment and repeated reports are not a vote.
How moderation works
In this release moderation is performed by the Spheromni administrator. There is no separate moderator role yet and no automated enforcement: a person reads each report and decides. Every decision is written to an audit trail in the same operation as the change it makes, so a decision cannot exist without its record.
The decisions available are exactly these, and nothing else: dismissing the report; removing the reported post or reply; a warning; a suspension of between 1 and 30 days; a ban; and reinstating a profile that was suspended or banned. Each carries a note written by the administrator, and you are shown that note word for word in the Community app.
A warning restricts nothing: you carry on as normal and dismissing it returns your standing to good. A suspension lets you read and appeal but not write, and ends by itself on the date you are shown. A ban is indefinite: your profile and everything you wrote stop being served to anybody else, and only a successful appeal reverses it. Nothing is deleted in any of these cases — removed content is kept as evidence, and the place it occupied in a conversation says plainly that it was removed by moderation, or deleted by its author.
Appeals
Every moderation decision can be appealed once, from inside the Community app, using the reference in the note you were given. Appealing is the one thing a suspended or banned profile can still do. An accepted appeal against a suspension or a ban reinstates the profile; an accepted appeal against a removal puts the content back.
Outcomes appear in the Community app and nowhere else. Spheromni sends no email and no notification of any kind — not for reports, not for moderation decisions, not for appeals, not for anything. If you are waiting on an answer, open the window and look. If you reported somebody, you are told the report was received and nothing further: you will not be told what was decided.
Accepting these guidelines
Accepting version 1.0 is part of creating a community profile, and that acceptance is recorded with its version. If these guidelines are changed in a way that needs a new version, reading stays open and writing pauses until you accept the new one. You are never asked to accept anything by a pre-ticked box.