🚩 Flags

Community Guidelines

Effective date: not yet published

Draft — pending review. Describes what the app actually enforces today, not invented policy — but the judgment calls (what's a warning vs. a ban) are still a draft.

Why this exists

Flags' whole premise is accountability: what you say to someone stays attached to your account, visible to the people you match with, not erased by ghosting or a clean new profile. That only works if everyone knows what the actual rules are.

The flag system, what it actually means

🟢Green flag — a positive signal about a specific message someone sent you.
🟡Yellow flag — boundary-adjacent. Not serious, not nothing.
🔴Red flag — a serious concern, evidence against one specific message.
👻Ghost flag — real conversation, then disappearing. One per person who experienced it, ever.

Green, yellow, and red flags require an actual message as evidence — you can't be flagged for something you didn't send.

What we actually act on

Reports go straight to a human reviewer, not the automated system, and can result in: dismissed (no violation found), warned, suspended, or banned.

What counts as a violation:

  1. Harassment or threats — unwanted contact after being asked to stop, threatening language, targeted harassment.
  2. Sexual content sent without consent — unsolicited explicit images or text.
  3. Fake or stolen profiles — someone else's photos, an obviously fake identity, or photos that don't consistently look like the same person.
  4. Off-platform redirects that look like a scam — asking to move to another app very early, especially combined with a request for money.
  5. Commercial solicitation — selling something, recruiting, promoting another service.
  6. Content outside the layer it's posted in — Kink & ENM content in Connect, or vice versa.
  7. Minors, or anyone who shouldn't be using a dating app — reported immediately, permanent ban, no warning tier.

What we don't do

Flags does not conduct criminal background checks or verify identity beyond what's described in our Privacy Policy. Exercise real judgment meeting anyone from here — public places, tell a friend your plans.

Content moderation — what's automatic, what's a human

Messages, photos, and voice intros are checked automatically — on your device first when possible, a moderation provider as fallback — before anyone else can see them. Reports always go to a human reviewer, regardless of what the automated system already decided.

Appeals

Appeal process not yet built — coming before this goes live.