These standards apply to confessions, article submissions, and comments. They are designed to preserve useful conversation without requiring everyone to agree.
Share experiences and opinions, not threats, exposure, abuse, scams, or instructions that could cause harm.
Disagreement, criticism, humor, and difficult conversations are welcome. Targeted humiliation, bullying, serious harassment, or repeated personal attacks are not.
Do not attack, demean, or exclude people because of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, caste, or another protected characteristic.
Threats, instructions or encouragement to hurt someone, glorification of violence, and encouragement of suicide or self-harm are not allowed. If someone may be in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
Do not post phone numbers, email addresses, home or work addresses, identification numbers, private social profiles, screenshots containing private data, or information intended to expose someone.
Use roles or general descriptions instead of full names. Do not impersonate another person or present yourself as an organization you do not represent.
Do not submit pornography, sexual solicitation, graphic sexual descriptions, exploitative content, or any sexual content involving minors.
Promotional links, repeated messages, scams, recruitment pitches, unsolicited services, affiliate offers, and requests to move the conversation to private messaging may be hidden.
Content that meaningfully helps someone commit fraud, evade law enforcement, obtain illegal goods, or cause harm is not allowed.
We may reject, hide, edit, limit, or remove content that violates these guidelines, creates a privacy or safety risk, is unlawful, or substantially lowers the quality of the discussion.
Mentioning a difficult topic is not automatically a violation. Moderation considers whether content reports an experience, criticizes an idea, targets a person, promotes harm, or exposes private information.
Use the Contact page and include the confession number or exact URL, what concerns you, and your requested outcome. Do not repeat sensitive information unnecessarily.
We may update these guidelines as the community and risks change. The latest published version governs public participation.