IdeaWorth Community Guidelines

Respect the IdeaWorth Community

We're not asking for the kind of respect reserved for nuns, the elderly, and brain surgeons. We mean don't abuse the site. Every cool new community feature on IdeaWorth involves a certain level of trust. We trust you to be responsible, and millions of users respect that trust, so please be one of them.

We Review Ideas Flagged As Inappropriate

Okay, this one is more about us than you. When an idea gets flagged as inappropriate, we review the idea to determine whether it violates our Terms of Use—flagged ideas are not automatically taken down by the system. If we remove your idea after reviewing it, you can assume that we removed it purposefully, and you should take our warning notification seriously. Take a deep breath, read our Terms of Use and try to see it from our perspective. If you find other idea on IdeaWorth with the same violations, please flag them so we can review them as well!

Don't Cross the Line

Here are some common-sense rules that will help you steer clear of trouble:

• IdeaWorth is not for pornography or sexually explicit content. If this describes the textual and visual content of your idea, even if it's about yourself, don't post it on IdeaWorth. Also, be advised that we work closely with law enforcement and we report child exploitation.
• Don't post text, photos, or videos showing dangerous or illegal acts, like animal abuse, drug abuse, or bomb making.
• Graphic or gratuitous IdeaWorthviolenceIdeaWorth is not allowed. If your idea shows someone getting hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don't post that kind of visual material.
• IdeaWorth is not a shock site. Don't post gross-out images or videos of accidents, dead bodies and stuff like that. This includes war footage if it's intended to shock or disgust.
• Respect copyright. Only upload content that you made or that you have obtained the rights to use. This means don't upload content you didn't make, or use content that someone else owns the copyright to, without their permission.
• We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech which contains slurs or the malicious use of stereotypes intended to attack or demean a particular gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or nationality.
• There is zero tolerance for predatory behavior, stalking, threats, harassment, invading privacy, or the revealing of other members' personal information. Anyone caught doing these things may be permanently banned from IdeaWorth.
• Don't try to cheat the system. No gamed thumbnails, spamming tags, or creating dummy accounts that do things a human wouldn't do.

Please take these rules seriously and take them to heart. Don't try to look for loopholes or try to lawyer your way around them—just understand them and try to respect the spirit in which they were created. Violations of the Terms of Use may result in a warning notification or may result in termination of your account and deletion of all your videos. We decide whether we believe your violation of our Terms of Use should result in termination of your account. If you have an account terminated you are prohibited from ever signing up for another account!

IdeaWorth is for the Community

Remember that this is your community! Each and every user of IdeaWorth makes the site what it is, so don't be afraid to dig in and get involved!

• Have fun with the site. There's a lot here to read and see, and lots of folks posting amazing ideas —one of them might be you! Dive in and enjoy.
• Let folks know what you think. Feedback's part of the experience, and when done with respect, can be a great way to make friends, share more ideas, and make your time on IdeaWorth richer. So leave comments, send messages, support ideas you like , buy futures, create channels—there's a lot going on and a lot of ways to participate here.
• You may not like everything you see. Some of the content here may offend you—if you find that it violates our Terms of Use, then click "Flag as Inappropriate" found withing the idea description you're reading to submit it for review by IdeaWorth staff. If it doesn't, then consider just clicking on something else—why waste time reading ideas you don't like?

That's it! Thanks for reading!

—  The IdeaWorth Team