Community guidelines.

1. What is not here

Worth listing, because it explains why this page is short.

• No text from users. Participants choose between written options. Nothing you write enters the platform, so there is nothing to moderate.
• No profiles. No display names, no photos, no bios, and no page representing a person.
• No following, friends or social graph. Circles are containers for a reading, not lists of relationships.
• No messaging. You can send someone a situation; you cannot send them anything else.
• No public identity. No answer is attributable to anybody, so nobody can be praised, attacked or piled onto for one.

These absences do most of the work that moderation usually has to do. Mirror, not judge

2. Do not push an aggregate

The clearest way to harm other people here is to make a figure describe something other than what people would do.

• Do not obtain more than one verification in order to answer a card more than once.
• Do not organise people to answer a particular way in order to move a published figure.
• Do not use automation to submit answers.

This is not primarily a rule against cheating us. Every other person reading that figure is trying to find out something true about people, and a pushed aggregate quietly gives all of them a wrong answer. How manipulation is detected

3. Do not pressure somebody about their answer

This is the section people do not expect, and it is the most important one.

The platform will never reveal what a person chose. In a pair or circle reading, the group sees a shape rather than who sat where. That means the only route by which somebody's answer can be extracted is another person asking, pushing, or making it awkward not to say.

• Do not ask a circle member to confirm which option they picked. The reading deliberately does not tell you, and that is not an oversight to work around.
• Do not make participation conditional on somebody telling you afterwards.
• Do not use a reading to corner somebody — in a family, a friendship, a team, or a classroom.

A person who expects to be asked afterwards does not answer honestly. The design protects them from us and from the system; only the people around them can protect them from this.

4. For coordinators and facilitators

• Do not ask students to identify their own answers afterwards, in any form.
• Do not comment on how an individual answered, or invite anybody to defend a choice, during or after a session.
• Do not present participation as expected. Declining has to carry no cost in practice, not only on paper.
• Do not use a batch report, or anything derived from it, in a decision about a named student.

Institution terms

5. Reporting a situation

A card can pass review and still land badly on somebody. If a situation should not be in the deck, tell us which one and why. A card can be retired from circulation; a reading already published stays, because the record is append-only.

Reports about cards are more useful to us than complaints about the platform, because review catches most problems before release and the ones it misses are found by the person the card landed on. Contact

6. What happens if these are breached

• Manipulation: access may be suspended or ended. This is in the terms of service rather than only here.
• Institution breaches: a session may be stopped, and future bookings declined.
• Pressure between people: largely outside what we can see or enforce, which is exactly why it is written down. What we can do is refuse to build anything that would make it easier.

7. What we will not moderate

Your answers. There is no correct choice on any card, no answer is wrong, and no choice is flagged, scored or held against anybody. If a person's honest answer is one most people disagree with, that disagreement is the finding — it is the entire point of collecting it.

These guidelines sit alongside the terms of service and the institution terms. Where they differ, those documents govern.