Community Guidelines

Help Me Choose’s Community Guidelines were created so you can help us foster and protect this ecosystem. By using Help Me Choose, you agree to these guidelines and our Terms of Use. We're committed to these guidelines and we hope that you are too. Overstepping these boundaries may result in deleted content, disabled accounts or other restrictions.

Share only photos and videos that you've taken or have the right to share.

As always, you own the content that you post on Help Me Choose. Remember to post authentic content, and don't post anything that you've copied or collected from the Internet that you don't have the right to post. Please respect all creators’ and artists’ intellectual property rights.

Post photos and videos that are appropriate for a diverse audience.

There are times when people might want to share semi-nude images to get opinions on underwear, swimwear, or intimate apparel, but for a variety of reasons, we don't allow nudity on Help Me Choose. This includes photos, videos and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks. It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos in the context of breastfeeding, maternity products, and gender reassignment products are allowed.

For safety reasons, we may remove images that show nude or partially nude children. Even when this content is shared with good intentions, it could be used by others in unanticipated ways.

Foster meaningful and genuine interactions.

Help us stay spam-free by not artificially collecting votes, followers or shares, posting repetitive comments or content, or repeatedly contacting people for commercial purposes without their consent. Don't offer money or giveaways of money in exchange for votes, followers, comments or other engagement. Don't post content that engages in, promotes, encourages, facilitates or admits to the offering, solicitation or trade of fake and misleading user reviews or ratings.

You don't have to use your real name on Help Me Choose, but we do require Help Me Choose users to provide us with accurate and up-to-date information. Don't impersonate others and don't create accounts for the purpose of violating our guidelines or misleading others.

Follow the law.

Help Me Choose is not a place to support or praise terrorism, organised crime or hate groups. Offering sexual services, buying or selling firearms, alcohol and tobacco products between private individuals, and buying or selling non-medical or pharmaceutical drugs are also not allowed. We also remove content that attempts to trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for non-medical drugs, as well as content that either admits to personal use (unless in the recovery context) or coordinates or promotes the use of non-medical drugs. Help Me Choose also prohibits the sale of live animals between private individuals, although brick-and-mortar shops may offer these sales. No one may coordinate poaching or selling of endangered species or their parts.

Remember to always follow the law when offering to sell or buy other regulated goods. Accounts promoting online gambling, online real money games of skill or online lotteries must get our prior written permission before using any of our products.

We have zero tolerance when it comes to sharing sexual content involving minors or threatening to post intimate images of others.

Respect other members of the Help Me Choose community.

We want to foster a positive, diverse community. We remove content that contains credible threats or hate speech, content that targets private individuals to degrade or shame them, personal information meant to blackmail or harass someone, and repeated unwanted messages.

It's never OK to encourage violence or attack anyone based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, disabilities or diseases.

Threats of harm to public and personal safety aren't allowed. This includes specific threats of physical harm as well as threats of theft, vandalism and other financial harm. We carefully review reports of threats and consider many things including involving law enforcement bodies.

Maintain our supportive environment by not glorifying self-injury.

Encouraging or urging people to embrace self-injury in any form, including eating disorders is counter to this environment of support, and we'll remove it or disable accounts if it's reported to us. We may also remove content identifying victims or survivors of self-injury if the content targets them for attack or humour.

We may remove videos of violence to make sure that Help Me Choose stays appropriate for everyone.

Sharing images for sadistic pleasure, to body-shame anyone, or to glorify violence is never allowed.

If you see something that you think may violate our guidelines, please help us by using our built-in reporting option. We have a team that reviews these reports and works as quickly as possible to remove content that doesn't meet our guidelines. When you complete the report, try to provide as much information as possible, such as links, usernames and descriptions of the content, so we can find and review it quickly. We may remove entire posts if either the imagery or associated captions violate our guidelines.

You may find content that you don't like, but doesn't violate the Community Guidelines. If that happens, you can unfollow or block the person who posted it. If there's something that you don't like in a comment on one of your posts, you can report that user.

Many disputes and misunderstandings can be resolved directly between members of the community. If one of your photos or videos was posted by someone else, you could try commenting on the post and asking the person to take it down. If that doesn't work, you can file a copyright report. If you believe that someone is violating your trademark, you can file a trademark report. Don't target the person who posted it by posting screenshots and drawing attention to the situation because that may be classified as harassment.

We may work with law enforcement, including when we believe that there's risk of physical harm or threat to public safety.

For more information, see our Terms of Use.