Community Guidelines

Use Yaps For Local, Good-Faith Conversation

Post about neighborhood observations, local events, transit, food, questions, and everyday public chatter. Keep posts and comments plain-text, relevant, and safe for a general audience of adults.

Do Not Harass, Threaten, Or Bully

Do not target people with insults, humiliation, repeated unwanted attention, threats, intimidation, sexual harassment, hate, or encouragement of self-harm. Do not use usernames, local context, or repeated posts to coordinate harassment.

Do Not Dox, Stalk, Or Misuse Location

Do not share private addresses, phone numbers, workplaces, school schedules, live whereabouts, license plates, private images, or identifying details about another person. Do not try to triangulate, identify, track, or confront someone based on Yaps activity.

Do Not Post Illegal, Exploitative, Or Dangerous Content

Do not post content involving sexual exploitation, minors, non-consensual sexual content, illegal goods, weapons trafficking, fraud, scams, malware, credible threats, instructions for violence, or activity intended to cause real-world harm.

No Impersonation, Spam, Or Platform Manipulation

Do not impersonate another person or organization. Do not create multiple accounts to evade moderation, mass post repetitive content, artificially inflate likes, abuse reporting tools, scrape the service, or automate activity without written permission from Yaps.

Comments Require Yapper's Tier

Users with an active Yapper's Tier subscription can comment on posts. Subscription access does not exempt comments from these Guidelines. Comments may be removed and subscription-based commenting access may be limited if comments violate Yaps policies.

Reporting And Enforcement

Use the report tools when content appears unsafe or violates these Guidelines. Yaps may hide, remove, restore, or escalate content; suspend or delete accounts; preserve records; and disclose information for safety, legal, fraud-prevention, or compliance reasons described in the Terms and Privacy Policy.

Contact

Report urgent safety concerns through the app when possible. For policy or moderation questions, contact support@yaps.life.