Community guidelines

How to take part

• Speak from your own experience.
• Challenge an idea without reducing a person to a stereotype.
• Keep private details private, including details about people who are not using Akin.
• Use the category that best fits the conversation.
• Let a conversation remain small; do not coordinate others to enter or target it.

Not allowed

• Harassment, threats, intimidation or encouragement of violence.
• Hate speech or dehumanising content targeting a protected characteristic.
• Sharing personal information that could identify or locate someone.
• Sexual exploitation, sexual content involving minors, or grooming behaviour.
• Non-consensual intimate content or threats to share it.
• Impersonation, fraud, scams, spam or coordinated manipulation.
• Instructions or encouragement for self-harm, violence or serious illegal activity.

Dating stories and third parties

You can discuss something that happened to you. Remove names, workplaces, handles, photos, exact locations and other details that could identify the other person.

Akin is not a venue for public accusations or campaigns against a named or identifiable person.

Enforcement

Context, severity, intent, history and risk all matter. Akin may remove content, limit features, issue a warning, suspend an account or close it.

Akin may preserve limited evidence when needed to investigate abuse, meet a legal obligation or protect the service and its members.

Appeals

If your content or account was actioned and you believe the decision was wrong, submit an appeal with the reference included in the moderation notice.