Community Guidelines

1. What These Guidelines Cover

These Community Guidelines apply to all content you submit to the Platform, including:

• Professor and course reviews
• Group posts and replies
• Live chat messages
• Direct messages
• Uploaded resources (files)
• Professor profile edit suggestions

These Guidelines supplement the Terms of Service. Violating these Guidelines is a violation of the Terms of Service. The Platform uses a combination of automated screening and human moderation to enforce these Guidelines. Content that is flagged is reviewed by a human administrator before any action is taken.

2. Reviews — What’s Allowed

Reviews are for honest academic opinions. This Platform exists so students can share real experiences about professors, courses, grading, and teaching quality. We protect that purpose aggressively.

The following are always allowed in reviews, no matter how strongly worded:

• Criticism of teaching quality (“worst lecturer I’ve ever had”)
• Criticism of grading practices (“unfairly harsh grader, no partial credit”)
• Criticism of workload (“assigns more reading than any human can complete”)
• Criticism of accessibility (“never responds to emails, no real office hours”)
• Criticism of personality or classroom demeanor (“rude, dismissive, plays favorites”)
• Descriptions of your personal academic experience (“I failed this class because...”)
• Opinions on course difficulty, organization, or value
• Recommendations to take or avoid a professor or course
• Low ratings across any or all dimensions

3. Reviews — What’s Not Allowed

The following content will be flagged, reviewed by a human administrator, and removed if confirmed. You will always receive a specific reason for any rejection — not a generic message.

1. 1.
   Threats or credible threats of violence toward the professor or anyone else.

   Removed:“Someone should teach this guy a lesson outside his office”

   Allowed:“This class was so frustrating I wanted to scream”
2. 2.
   Hate speech or slurs targeting the professor or anyone else based on race, gender, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristic.

   Removed:[slur]-loving professor who only passes [slur]s

   Allowed:“I felt the grading was biased, but I can’t prove it”
3. 3.
   Explicit sexual content about or directed at the professor.

   Removed:Graphic sexual descriptions or fantasies about the professor

   Allowed:“This professor is attractive but that doesn’t affect the grade”
4. 4.
   Personal identifying information (doxxing) — the professor’s home address, personal phone number, personal email address, or family details unrelated to their professional role.

   University office locations, department email, and posted office hours are not personal information and are fine to mention.
5. 5.
   Spam or commercial advertising — content with no academic substance that promotes a product, service, or website.

   Removed:“Buy my notes at [link]”

   Allowed:“The required textbook is a waste of money”
6. 6.
   Content with zero academic substance — reviews must contain at least some reference to teaching, coursework, grading, or the class environment. A review entirely unrelated to academics will be removed.

   Removed:A political rant with no mention of a class or professor

   Allowed:“Easy A, barely had to study” — brief, but references the academic experience

4. Reviews — Integrity Rules

• One review per professor-course combination. You can review the same professor for different courses, or the same course with different professors — but not the same professor-course pair twice.
• Review your own experience. Reviews must reflect courses you personally took with the professor you are reviewing. Do not write reviews for classes you didn’t take or professors you didn’t have.
• Semester tag must be accurate. Select the semester you actually took the course. Intentionally false semester tags undermine the Platform’s value and may result in review removal.
• No coordinated campaigns. Do not organize groups of people to submit reviews about a specific professor to manipulate ratings. Coordinated review manipulation will result in account suspension.
• No self-reviews by professors. Faculty may use the Platform, but reviewing yourself or your own courses is not permitted.

5. Group Content — Posts, Chat & Resources

Groups are communities for discussion, study, and collaboration. The same core rules apply: no threats, hate speech, doxxing, sexual content, or spam.

Additional rules for groups:

• Stay on topic. Posts and chat messages should be relevant to the course, professor, or academic community the group serves. Off-topic content is fine occasionally; groups that become entirely off-topic may be flagged.
• No commercial solicitation. Don’t use groups to sell products, tutoring, or anything else. Sharing free resources is fine; charging for them is not.
• Resource uploads must be yours to share. Don’t upload copyrighted materials (textbook PDFs, publisher exam banks, proprietary course materials) unless you have the copyright holder’s permission. Uploading your own notes, summaries, and study guides is encouraged. See our Copyright Policy for details.
• No personal attacks on group members. Disagreements are fine; targeting a specific member with harassment, insults, or threats is not.
• Archived groups are read-only. Once a group is archived at semester end, you can browse its content but cannot post, reply, upload, or send chat messages.

6. Direct Messages

DMs are private conversations — but they are not a lawless space. The same core rules apply: no threats, hate speech, doxxing, sexual content, or spam, even in private.

• Admins cannot read your DMs. Moderation of DMs is limited to user-side blocking. If someone harasses you via DM, block them immediately. If harassment involves credible threats, contact [email protected] — we may take action against the offending account based on your report, without reading the message content.
• Unsolicited commercial messages are prohibited. If you receive spam DMs, block the sender and report via [email protected].

7. What Happens When You Break the Rules

We use a graduated enforcement approach. The specific action depends on the severity and pattern of violations.

• You will always be told the specific reason for any enforcement action. You will never receive a generic “your content was removed” message.
• Automated screening is never final — a human administrator reviews all flagged content. You are not told whether automated screening was involved; the “pending review” status is our standard process.
• If you believe an action was taken in error, contact [email protected]. We will review your case.

8. Reporting Content

If you see content that violates these Guidelines:

• Reviews: Click the “Flag” button on the review and select a reason. One flag per user per review.
• Group posts & replies: Click the flag icon on the post.
• Chat messages: Tap the flag option on the message.
• Resources: Click “Flag” on the resource listing.
• Issues not covered by the flag system (DM harassment, coordinated manipulation, urgent safety concerns): [email protected]

9. A Note to Professors

If you’re a professor reading this:

• We understand this can be uncomfortable. Seeing anonymous reviews of your teaching is not easy. We take the responsibility of hosting this content seriously.
• Negative reviews are not grounds for removal. Criticism of your teaching, grading, workload, personality, or classroom style — even strongly worded — is protected on this Platform. We will not remove a review because you disagree with it or find it unflattering.
• We will remove content that crosses safety lines. Threats, hate speech, your home address, personal phone number, personal email address, family details, and sexual content are removed promptly.
• To report a violation: Email [email protected] with a link to the review and a description of the violation. We will review it within 2 business days.
• To report copyright infringement: If a student has uploaded your copyrighted course materials (slides, exams, problem sets) in a group, submit a DMCA takedown notice via our Copyright Policy.
• We will not reveal a reviewer’s identity — not to you, not to your university, not to other students. Anonymous usernames cannot be traced to a real person. The only exception is a valid legal order (subpoena or court order).
• Factual corrections: If your profile contains incorrect information (wrong department, misspelled name), any logged-in user can submit a correction via “Suggest an Edit.” Corrections are reviewed by an administrator before being applied.

10. Changes to These Guidelines

We may update these Community Guidelines from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via the Platform. The “Last Updated” date at the top of this page always reflects the most recent version.