Effective date: 2026-04-22 Last updated: 2026-04-22
Why we have these guidelines
Awiser is a place for builders, designers, researchers, and creative professionals to find each other, collaborate, and make things. That works best when people show up honestly, treat each other with respect, and understand what is and is not okay here.
These Community Guidelines are the plain-language version of the rules. The full, binding rules are in the Acceptable Use Policy (the "AUP"). If a specific situation comes up and the two documents seem to disagree, the AUP is what governs.
Think of these guidelines as the short answer. The AUP is the long one.
1. Be real
Use your real name, or a name you have the right to use. Do not pretend to be someone else. Do not invent affiliations, credentials, or endorsements.
One person, one account. If you need multiple accounts for a genuine reason (for example, you run a studio and want a team presence separate from your personal profile), email privacy@awiser.co and ask.
2. Be kind
Harassment is not welcome here. Neither are threats, bullying, or targeted abuse. That applies to comments, messages, project feedback, and everything in between.
You can disagree with someone, criticize their work, or decline to collaborate with them. You cannot attack them personally, pile on, or coordinate with others to make them unsafe on Awiser.
If someone is harassing you, you can leave their direct-message conversation at any time. If they keep coming at you on other parts of Awiser, report them — see §8. How to report.
3. Be honest
Do not fake activity to earn achievements. Do not create extra accounts to inflate your referral count. Do not pay people to sign up under your link or clap for your posts.
Achievements are supposed to mean something. They only mean something if they are earned. If Awiser finds that yours were not, Awiser will take them back.
4. Respect other people's work
If you post something, you are saying it is yours or that you have permission to share it. Copying someone else's work and passing it off as your own is not okay. Neither is uploading images, code, designs, or text that you do not have the right to use.
If you collaborate with another user, make sure you agree — in writing, ideally off-platform — about who owns what and who gets credit. Awiser is a place where collaborations begin; the agreements that govern those collaborations happen between you and the other person.
5. Keep it legal
Do not use Awiser for anything illegal. That includes — and is not limited to — child sexual abuse material, terrorist or violent-extremist content, credible threats, fraud, weapons or drug sales, stalking, or content that breaks a law that applies to you.
Some of this gets reported to law enforcement automatically. Most of it results in your account being terminated.
6. Protect other people's privacy
Do not share anyone else's personal information without a good reason and their consent. That includes home or work addresses, phone numbers, financial information, and private images.
If you are publishing content about another person — a profile of them, a critique of their work, a reply to something they said — stick to what is public and relevant. Do not dig up, publish, or link to information that makes them less safe.
7. Play fair with Awiser
Do not try to break into Awiser, attack it, scrape it, or abuse it. Do not use bots or scripts to automate activity unless Awiser has said that is okay in writing.
Security researchers are welcome. If you find a security bug, tell us at privacy@awiser.co with the subject line "Security". If you report it in good faith — you did not access other users' data, you did not disrupt the service, you did not pivot to third-party systems, and you give us at least thirty days to fix it before going public — we will not take legal action against you for the research. The full terms of this safe harbor are in §3.3 of the Acceptable Use Policy.
Awiser is a small project run by one person. Treating it well helps keep it working for everyone.
8. How to report
If you see something that breaks these guidelines or the AUP, tell us.
Send an email to privacy@awiser.co with the subject line "Report". Include:
- The URL or username you are reporting
- What you think is wrong
- Your name and contact email, so we can follow up
For anything urgent or illegal (CSAM, terrorist content, credible threats), use the subject line "Urgent — Illegal content".
We read every report. We cannot promise a response time, but we will act when the situation warrants it.
9. What happens when someone breaks the rules
Depending on what happened, we may:
- Do nothing (reports are reviewed, not all result in action)
- Ask the person to modify or remove the content
- Remove the content ourselves
- Warn the person
- Suspend or terminate the account
- Revoke achievements earned through prohibited conduct
- Report the matter to law enforcement or other authorities
The full list, and how it works, is in §5 of the AUP.
10. What happens if you disagree with a decision
If your account is suspended or something you posted is removed, and you think we got it wrong, you can appeal. Email privacy@awiser.co with the subject line "Appeal" and explain why.
We review appeals. We do not guarantee we will change our mind.
11. Updates
We update these guidelines when the AUP changes or when something in the community warrants it. The current effective date is at the top.
12. Contact
Anything else — questions, suggestions, concerns — email privacy@awiser.co.
End of Community Guidelines.
Questions about this document? Email privacy@awiser.co.