mindo is designed for reflection, expression, resonance, conversation, and meaningful connection. These Community Guidelines explain the standards we expect people to follow when participating in mindo.

They apply to public posts, profiles, responses, comments, Dialogue, Resonance Rooms, Say Hi notes, and other content or interactions on mindo.

Our Core Standard

Be thoughtful about the human being on the other side of the screen.

Disagreement, humor, criticism, difficult experiences, vulnerability, unusual ideas, and strong opinions can all belong on mindo. Harassment, exploitation, threats, deception, and behavior that makes meaningful participation unsafe do not.

1. Respect Other People

Do not use mindo to harass, bully, threaten, stalk, shame, or repeatedly target another person.

This includes:

• Credible threats of violence or serious harm.

• Encouraging others to harass or target someone.

• Repeated unwanted sexual or romantic attention.

• Deliberately revealing private information to intimidate or harm someone.

• Severe or persistent personal attacks intended primarily to humiliate or silence another person.

Criticism of ideas, public actions, organizations, institutions, and public figures is generally allowed when it does not cross into prohibited threats, harassment, or other abuse.

2. Hate and Dehumanization

Do not attack, dehumanize, or advocate exclusion, violence, or serious harm against people based on protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or similar characteristics protected by applicable law.

Discussion of prejudice, discrimination, controversial beliefs, history, politics, religion, identity, or social issues is allowed when the purpose is not to promote hatred or harm.

3. Violence and Dangerous Conduct

Do not use mindo to:

• Make credible threats of violence.

• Encourage or coordinate violent attacks.

• Celebrate or encourage serious real-world harm against identifiable victims.

• Provide content primarily intended to facilitate violent criminal activity.

Context matters. News, education, documentary discussion, personal experiences, prevention, recovery, and fictional or artistic expression may be allowed.

If you believe someone is in immediate danger, contact appropriate local emergency services. mindo is not an emergency service.

4. Self-Harm and Suicide

People may discuss difficult emotions, mental health, recovery, self-harm, or suicide in supportive, reflective, educational, or help-seeking contexts.

Do not encourage, glorify, pressure, or provide instructions for suicide or serious self-harm.

We may limit or remove content when necessary to reduce a serious risk of harm.

5. Sexual Exploitation and Child Safety

We have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation or abuse.

Do not post, request, distribute, promote, or facilitate sexual content involving minors, grooming, sexual exploitation, or trafficking.

Do not use mindo to sexually exploit, coerce, blackmail, or non-consensually expose another person.

We may report apparent child exploitation or other conduct to appropriate authorities where required or appropriate.

6. Privacy and Personal Information

Respect other people's privacy.

Do not share highly sensitive personal information about another person without authorization when doing so creates a meaningful risk of harm. This can include home addresses, private phone numbers, financial credentials, identity documents, precise private locations, passwords, or other sensitive information.

Do not use information obtained through mindo to stalk, intimidate, defraud, or endanger someone.

7. Authenticity and Deception

You do not have to use mindo as a public real-name identity unless a particular feature requires specific information, but you may not deceptively impersonate another person or organization.

Do not:

• Pretend to be another person in order to deceive or harm others.

• Run scams, phishing schemes, or fraudulent solicitations.

• Manipulate people through coordinated fake identities or deceptive engagement.

• Misrepresent an opportunity, job, investment, service, transaction, affiliation, or other material fact for fraudulent purposes.

Parody, satire, fictional personas, and pseudonyms are generally allowed when they are not used deceptively to cause harm.

8. Spam and Manipulation

Do not overwhelm mindo or its users with spam, repetitive unsolicited messages, artificial engagement, mass-created accounts, or unauthorized automation.

Do not scrape, crawl, or systematically collect mindo content or user information without permission where such activity violates our Terms or applicable law.

9. Illegal Activities and Regulated Goods

Do not use mindo to facilitate criminal activity or transactions prohibited by applicable law.

Content discussing regulated goods, drugs, weapons, gambling, or other restricted activities may be limited or removed when it facilitates unlawful transactions or serious harm.

Educational, policy, recovery, news, historical, or harm-reduction discussions may be allowed depending on context.

10. Intellectual Property

Share content you have the right to share.

Do not knowingly post material that infringes copyrights, trademarks, publicity rights, or other intellectual property rights.

Discussion, criticism, commentary, parody, quotation, and transformative uses may be legally permitted in some circumstances, but you are responsible for the content you submit.

If you believe your intellectual property rights have been violated, contact us.

11. Private Conversations

Private spaces still have rules.

Dialogue, Resonance Rooms, Say Hi notes, and other limited-audience communications may not be used for threats, exploitation, fraud, severe harassment, illegal activity, or other serious violations of these Guidelines.

Do not assume that another person's willingness to talk means they consent to sexual, romantic, commercial, or persistent communication.

Respect requests to stop communicating.

12. Offline Interaction

mindo may help users discover and communicate with other people.

If you choose to meet someone you encountered through mindo, use your own judgment and appropriate precautions. DATAO generally does not verify every user's identity, qualifications, intentions, or claims.

Do not use mindo to organize offline activity intended to facilitate violence, exploitation, fraud, or illegal conduct.

13. Meaningful Participation

mindo is intentionally designed around resonance rather than attention alone.

We encourage:

• Original thought and personal reflection.

• Genuine curiosity about other people's perspectives.

• Constructive disagreement.

• Sharing experiences without presenting personal experience as universal truth.

• Conversations that deepen understanding rather than simply maximize reactions.

• Giving people space to disengage from a conversation.

These are community aspirations rather than strict rules in every circumstance, but they reflect the kind of environment mindo is designed to support.

14. Reporting and Enforcement

You can report content or users that you believe violate these Guidelines.

Depending on the circumstances, DATAO may:

• Remove or restrict content.

• Reduce distribution or visibility.

• Issue a warning.

• Limit access to particular features.

• Temporarily suspend an account.

• Permanently terminate an account.

• Preserve information or report conduct to authorities when legally required or reasonably necessary to address serious safety concerns.

We consider context, severity, intent, potential harm, previous violations, and other relevant factors when making enforcement decisions.

15. Appeals

Where available, users may request review of certain moderation decisions.

An appeal does not guarantee that a decision will be reversed. We may maintain restrictions while an appeal is reviewed when reasonably necessary for safety or service integrity.