Care before advice. Consent before curiosity.

Community-specific rules may add a narrower topic or format boundary, but they cannot weaken these platform-wide protections.

• Do not post or threaten to post another person’s diagnosis, test result, medication, clinic, address, workplace, location, phone number, email or legal name.
• Do not share private messages, room conversations, screenshots, recordings or identifying story details outside their intended audience without clear permission.
• Do not investigate, correlate or reveal who is behind an anonymous contribution. This includes matching writing style, rare details, images or off-platform accounts.
• Never share intimate media or medical documents belonging to someone else. Consent to send something privately is not consent to repost it.

• No slurs, dehumanizing language, ridicule, threats, bullying or targeted humiliation.
• No stigma or discrimination based on HSV, HIV or HPV status; symptoms; treatment choice; disability; sexual history; disclosure decision; race; religion; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation or another protected or vulnerable characteristic.
• No dogpiling, raids, coordinated reactions or directing an audience to harass someone.
• No repeated contact after someone blocks you, leaves a room or asks you to stop.

When you present a treatment or transmission claim as a general fact, provide a credible source and describe uncertainty. Moderators may ask for a source, add context, limit distribution or remove a claim based on likely harm, urgency, reach, deceptive intent and repetition—not merely because a view is unpopular.

• No hookup posts, sexual propositions, fetishizing a diagnosis or rating people’s desirability.
• No unsolicited explicit text or images, sexual harassment, coercion, grooming or pressure to disclose.
• No repeated requests for contact details, private chat, photos, a call or an off-platform meeting.
• No manipulating a member’s fear, diagnosis or isolation to obtain intimacy, money, housing or another benefit.
• No sexual content involving anyone under 18, including real, altered, illustrated or synthetic media.

• Do not impersonate a member, clinician, nonprofit, moderator, partner or PosMeet representative.
• Official and partner posts must use their assigned label and clearly disclose relevant interests.
• No spam, scams, referral harvesting, reaction manipulation, coordinated reporting or ban evasion.
• No medication sales, controlled-substance transactions or requests for money.
• No research recruitment, surveys, journalism outreach, fundraising, promotion or commercial solicitation without prior written PosMeet approval and a visible disclosure.
• No scraping, surveillance, training datasets or attempts to re-identify members.

An Official label means PosMeet controls the publishing account. It is not medical endorsement. A Partner label must identify the organization and any relevant relationship.

• Upload only media you created or have permission and legal rights to share.
• Do not upload explicit sexual activity, genital imagery, intimate media or exploitative content.
• Do not upload IDs, test forms, prescriptions or clinic documents that expose you or someone else.
• Mark supported sensitive media when appropriate. A blur is a content warning, not access control; another member can choose to reveal it.
• Removing hidden metadata does not hide visible faces, names, addresses, barcodes, reflections or background details. Review the image yourself before posting.

PosMeet may reject or remove media, hold uncertain high-risk uploads for review, and permanently remove accounts connected to child sexual abuse material or non-consensual intimate imagery.

• Listening quietly is welcome. Speaking and personal disclosure are always optional.
• Wait for the host to approve a hand request and keep your microphone off when not speaking.
• Do not pressure someone to reveal a diagnosis, location, relationship details or real identity.
• Do not record, transcribe, rebroadcast, voice-clone or quote-identify another participant without explicit permission.
• Hosts and co-hosts may mute or remove someone for immediate room safety; that does not replace a platform report.
• Use the room or participant report path during or after the room when review is needed.

• For urgent physical symptoms or possible exposure, contact a qualified clinician or local emergency service.
• For immediate danger, suicide or self-harm risk, contact an appropriate local crisis or emergency service.
• Do not promise secrecy when someone may be in immediate danger or encourage them to avoid professional help.
• Do not use crisis language to manipulate, punish or force contact from another member.

A safety report may help PosMeet prioritize review and privately surface support resources, but the report queue is not continuously monitored emergency dispatch. Do not wait for a moderator when time matters.

A report can preserve a restricted snapshot of the reported content or room participants for review even if the original is later edited or removed. PosMeet does not disclose the reporter’s identity to the reported member. Your report history shows a simplified status, not other people’s evidence or moderator identity.

Do not submit false reports, coordinate mass reports or use reporting to punish disagreement. The number of reports alone does not decide whether a rule was broken.

Review should consider the likely harm, context, intent, repetition, audience, member vulnerability, account history and whether the person corrected the issue. PosMeet may preserve narrowly scoped evidence and report unlawful material where required.

An action notice should name the rule, affected content or behavior, action, duration and available review path. Eligible notices appear in the member’s private Account status, where one active appeal can show its deadline, timeline and outcome. The original decision operator cannot review or resolve that appeal. A successful review restores content or account standing where the corrective action supports it.

Questions about how a rule applies can be sent privately through Help & feedback. Product feedback is not an emergency channel or a substitute for a safety report.