What you can publish

What you publish must not:

• be illegal, where you are or where we are
• harass or threaten somebody, or set other people on them
• impersonate somebody else, or pass itself off as mySpoils
• carry somebody's private information: an address, a phone number, a workplace, anything they have not published themselves
• be sexual material involving children, in any form, drawn or photographed
• be an advertisement, a referral link, or a way of sending people somewhere else
• be somebody else's photograph or writing, published as your own

What you publish can be anything you have experienced and whatever you thought of it, in your own words. A harsh review is not harassment, and an unpopular opinion about a film is not a rule broken.

People is a category for people you have met, so a public profile can carry the name of somebody who never agreed to appear anywhere. A spoil naming a stranger looks exactly like one naming an actor.

Publish a private person only if you would say the same thing to their face. Their name and what you thought are enough. Their address, their workplace, their phone number, what they told you in confidence, and a photograph of them they have not agreed to are not.

Public figures are different. An actor, a musician or an author is published already, and saying what you thought of meeting them is ordinary.

If somebody asks us to take down a spoil that names them, we will look at it, and we may make it private before asking you.

A note on a public spoil becomes the page's description, which means a search engine can show it in results and a chat app can show it in a link preview. Write it for a stranger, or keep the spoil private.

The Terms set out what happens: the smallest thing that fixes it, usually the profile turned off, an email saying which rule applied and what was done, and a reply if we got it wrong.

Every public profile carries a Report link at its foot. It works without an account, and a person reads every report.