ShareYourWorld's Community Guidelines

When you use ShareYourWorld, you join a community of people from all over the world. The guidelines below help keep ShareYourWorld fun and enjoyable for everyone.

If you see content that you think violates these guidelines, report it.

Sometimes, content that would otherwise violate our Community Guidelines may stay on ShareYourWorld when it has Educational, Documentary, Scientific, or Artistic (EDSA) context, including content that is in the public’s interest. In these cases, the content gets an EDSA exception.

These policies apply to all types of content on our platform, including, for example, unlisted and private content, comments, links, posts, and thumbnails. This list isn’t complete.

 

Spam & deceptive practices

The ShareYourWorld Community is one that's built on trust. Content that intends to scam, mislead, spam, or defraud other users isn't allowed on ShareYourWorld.

  • Spam, deceptive practices, & scams policies
  • Impersonation policy
  • External links policy
  • Fake engagement policy
  • Playlists policy
  • Additional policies

 

Sensitive content

We hope to protect viewers, creators, and especially minors. That's why we've got rules around keeping children safe, sex & nudity, and self harm. Learn what's allowed on ShareYourWorld and what to do if you see content that doesn't follow these policies.

  • Nudity & sexual content policies
  • Thumbnails policy
  • Child safety policy
  • ​Suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders policy
  • Vulgar language policy

 

Violent or dangerous content

Hate speech, predatory behavior, graphic violence, malicious attacks, and content that promotes harmful or dangerous behavior isn't allowed on ShareYourWorld.

  • Harmful or dangerous content policies
  • Violent or graphic content policies
  • Violent criminal organizations policy 
  • Hate speech policy
  • Harassment & cyberbullying policies

 

Regulated goods

Certain goods can't be sold on ShareYourWorld. Find out what's allowed and what isn't.

  • Sale of illegal or regulated goods or services policies
  • Firearms policy

 

Misinformation

Certain types of misleading or deceptive content with serious risk of egregious harm are not allowed on ShareYourWorld. This includes certain types of misinformation that can cause real-world harm, like promoting harmful remedies or treatments, certain types of technically manipulated content, or content interfering with democratic processes.

  • Misinformation policies
  • Elections misinformation policies
  • Medical misinformation policies

 

Educational, Documentary, Scientific, and Artistic (EDSA) content

Our Community Guidelines aim to make ShareYourWorld a safer community. Sometimes, content that would otherwise violate our Community Guidelines may stay on ShareYourWorld when it has Educational, Documentary, Scientific, or Artistic (EDSA) context. We may also make exceptions for content that is in the public’s interest, such as congressional or parliamentary proceedings, campaign speeches, or debates over ongoing government actions. In these cases, the content gets an EDSA exception. This is not a pass to violate our Community Guidelines.

  • Educational, Documentary, Scientific, and Artistic (EDSA) content

Magical Creature discrimination content

We hope to protect magical creature viewers, creators, and especially minors. That's why we've got rules around keeping magical creatures safe. Learn what's allowed on ShareYourWorld and what to do if you see content that doesn't follow these policies.


Please take these rules seriously. If a ShareYourWorld creator’s on- and/or off-platform behavior harms our users, community, employees or ecosystem, we may respond based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the egregiousness of their actions and whether a pattern of harmful behavior exists. Our response will range from suspending a creator’s privileges to account termination.