9 rules,
and you already know them.
They are the 9 reasons you can report something. Nothing is enforced here that is not on this list, and nothing on this list is ignored.
That is not a presentation trick. The list below and the list in the report menu are the same list, from the same place in the code — so there is no rule you have no way to report, and no report category that turns out to correspond to no rule.
In force since 7 September 2026.
The rules Copy a link to this section
Attacks or harasses someone Read first
Going after a person rather than an argument: pile-ons, repeated unwanted contact, sexual harassment, or abuse aimed at somebody for who they are. Disagreeing with somebody, however sharply, is not this.
Illegal, or a threat of violence Read first
Anything unlawful, and any threat of violence against a person or a place. Threats are read as threats whether or not the person making one says they were joking.
Spam or a scam
Bulk, repetitive or deceptive posting, and anything whose real purpose is to move somebody somewhere else — fake offers, engagement farming, or the same message pushed at people who did not ask for it.
Pretending to be someone else
Passing yourself off as a person, a business or an organisation you are not. Parody and commentary are fine when they are obvious; a profile built to be mistaken for somebody is not. It is also why two usernames cannot differ only by punctuation.
Shares private information
Publishing somebody's private information without their agreement — an address, a phone number, a document, a photograph taken where they had every reason to expect not to be published.
Suicide or self-harm Read first
Encouraging or instructing suicide, self-harm or disordered eating. Talking about your own experience is not this, and is not something we remove.
If this is about you, or about someone you are with
You can talk to somebody now. These lines are free, and the people answering them do this all day.
- 116 123 — Mental Helse, Norway, every day, all day
- 22 40 00 40 — Kirkens SOS, Norway, every day, all day
- 116 111 — Alarmtelefonen for barn og unge, Norway, under 18
If somebody is in danger right now, call 113 (Norway, emergency medical).
Somewhere else in the world? Find a helpline where you are.
Seriously misleading
Not "wrong", and not "I disagree". Claims that do real harm by being believed — about health, safety, or a vote — presented as fact.
Uses my work without permission
Using somebody else's work without the right to. Report it as the person whose work it is, or as somebody acting for them.
Something else
Because a fixed list always misses something. A report that has to be squeezed into the nearest wrong category is a report that gets read as the wrong problem.
If it looks like a crime Copy a link to this section
A report of illegal material or of somebody in immediate danger is held rather than quietly deleted. Removing a post is the ordinary answer to a report, and for this one category the thing being removed is the evidence — so a moderator can hold it, and what they held is kept whatever is decided afterwards.
Where we believe an offence has been committed we tell the police, and we write down who we told and when. Two things worth being plain about: nothing here is automatic — a person decides, every time — and Easybie does not scan what you upload against any database of known illegal images. Doing that needs access held by national bodies and by NCMEC, which is granted to organisations rather than obtained by writing software. If that changes, this paragraph changes with it.
Threats, self-harm and harassment go to the top Copy a link to this section
Those three are read ahead of everything else, however long the rest have been waiting. A threat and a spam complaint are not the same kind of thing, and a queue that treats them alike is a queue where the ordinary volume buries the one that mattered.
What reporting does, and what it does not Copy a link to this section
You do not need an account
Anybody can report anything they can see here, signed in or not — a rule that only members could invoke would be a rule strangers have to join to be protected by. Leave an email and you are told when it is decided; leave it blank and the report is still read, there is simply no way to answer you. It is used for that and nothing else, and never shown to the person reported.
A person reads it
Every report is read by a human being. Nothing is removed automatically, and nothing is hidden by having been reported a certain number of times — that mechanism is precisely what coordinated pile-ons exploit, and it turns every dogpile into a working censorship tool.
One report per person per thing
Reporting something twice is not possible, and there is a limit on how many reports one account can file in an hour. Volume is not evidence.
You are told the outcome
You are told when your report has been decided. You are not told what happened to somebody else's account, because that is between them and us.
Both answers are recorded
Leaving something up is written down as carefully as taking it down. A moderation log that only records removals is a log that cannot be reviewed.
The person reported is never told who reported them
Not in the notification, not in the appeal, not anywhere.
Reporting is not blocking
It does not hide anything from you by itself. If you simply do not want to see somebody, block or mute them — that is a separate decision and it is entirely yours.
What can happen Copy a link to this section
There are six measures, and they are the only six. Each one is written to a log that is never edited. The first four are a decision a person made and put their name to. The last two are the only ones a rule can apply on its own, and neither of them deletes anything or touches an account — both are described further down, because a measure a machine can reach for deserves more than a row in a table.
| Measure | What it means |
|---|---|
| The post comes down | The thing reported is removed. The account is untouched. |
| A warning | You are told what was wrong and nothing else happens. Most first problems end here. |
| Restricted | You can read, but not post, reply, message, follow, or start anything. It lasts until a moderator lifts it. |
| Suspended | You are signed out and cannot sign back in. It lasts until a moderator lifts it. |
| Not amplified | The post stays up, stays on your profile and stays visible to anyone who follows you. It leaves the public feed, Explore, trending, site-wide search, the gallery and the sitemap, and search engines are asked not to index it. A rule can apply this without a person, and you are always told which of the two it was. |
| Hidden while it is checked | The post is hidden from everyone except you, and goes to a moderator. You can still see it, you are told the moment it happens, and you are told whether a rule or a person did it. It ends when somebody reads it — shown again, or removed with a reason you can appeal. A rule can apply this, and it is the strongest thing any rule here can do. |
Nothing here is permanent by design — there is no ban that cannot be lifted, and no measure runs out on a timer either. Both of those are deliberate: a restriction that expires quietly is one nobody ever reviews.
Doing it repeatedly Copy a link to this section
One removed post is one removed post. A pattern is different, and it is treated differently: an account whose content keeps being removed can be restricted or suspended for the pattern rather than for the last thing in it. You are warned before that happens, and a person weighs how many, over what period, and how serious — not a counter that fires at a number.
The same applies to reporting. Somebody who repeatedly files complaints that are read and dismissed can lose the ability to file them — not for being wrong, which happens in good faith all the time, but for a pattern that is obviously not about the rules: reporting everything one person posts, reporting the same account week after week, or filing so many that the queue itself becomes the attack.
Both are judged by a person looking at the actual reports, and both are recorded. Being wrong about one report costs you nothing.
If something is done to your account Copy a link to this section
You are told, and you are told why, in writing, with the reason the moderator actually gave. That email is sent whatever your notification settings say — it is the one message you cannot switch off, because a restriction that arrives without an explanation is indistinguishable from a bug, and people who cannot tell those apart stop trusting the platform rather than stopping the behaviour.
That message says what was decided and on which rule, that a person decided it and no automated system was involved, and how to challenge it — the appeal form, an out-of-court dispute settlement body, or a court. It links straight to the appeal form, which needs no account, because a suspension is exactly the moment you cannot reach anything behind a sign-in.
One kind of decision here is made by a rule rather than by a person: a post can stop being amplified — it stays up, stays on your profile and stays visible to anyone who follows you, and leaves the public feed, Explore and search. You are told when that happens, and you are told plainly that a machine decided it. Open the post and there is a button to ask a person to look at it. A person reads it, and you are told what they decided and why, either way.
There is one rule that applies to brand-new accounts rather than to anything anybody did. For the first day, an account that has no followers and no badge keeps its posts with links off the public feed and Explore. Those posts are up, on the author's profile, and visible to anyone who follows them — and the moment either a day passes or one person follows, they appear normally. Nothing is stored, nothing is decided about you, and there is nothing to appeal, because nothing was taken away: every advert that has ever been posted here carried a link, and this costs a real new member a few hours.
If you think a decision is wrong, say so through the request form, which needs no account, or by email to info@easybie.com. Either way a different pair of eyes looks at it.
What you can do without us Copy a link to this section
Most of what people want is not a moderator. You can block somebody, which makes you invisible to each other; mute them, which they are never told about and which you can set to wear off after a day, a week or a month; mute words so posts containing them never reach your feed; close replies on your own post; require your approval before a tag of you is visible; and choose for every post who can see it. None of that asks anybody's permission, and none of it tells the other person.
Groups have their own rules on top Copy a link to this section
A group's admins write rules for their own room and can remove posts and members in it. Those rules are theirs and apply only there — they sit on top of these, never instead of them. If a room's rules change, everybody who agreed to the old ones is told.
See also the terms and the privacy notice.
Found something that breaks one of these?
The report control is in the ⋯ menu on any post, profile or group.