Code of Conduct

1. Posting

Your own work, honestly presented. No AI-written poems right now, no reposting somebody else's work as your own, nothing hateful or unsafe.

• Post your own work If somebody else wrote it, use the link option — never paste their words as yours.
• No AI-written poems for now You can save them in your studio, but don't presenting a generated poem as your own.
• Nothing hateful or unsafe Harassment, hate, and anything sexualizing minors are removals, not conversations.
• Hard things are welcome Poems about grief, illness and despair belong here. Instructions for self-harm do not.

Two of these are enforced automatically. Every poem is checked for safety and for plagiarism before it appears, and the posting form asks whether AI wrote the poem; an answer of yes cannot publish. To share a poem written by someone else, choose someone else wrote this when you post: it appears as a link to the original, with the poet credited.

2. Engaging

Comments a poet is glad to have received. Critique the poem, never the person. No spam, no pile-ons.

• Leave comments a poet is glad to have received Even the critical ones if they're constructive. Say what landed before you say what didn't.
• Critique the poem, not the person Giving your opinion about the work is okay. Leave the writer out of it.
• No spam or pile-ons Don't advertise in someone else's comments.
• Star what you genuinely like Engagement games are actively sought out and limited.

You are never obliged to like a poem, or to comment at all. If you do comment, make it something the poet can use.

3. What happens if these are broken

Depending on what happened, and roughly in this order: the poem or comment is removed; we write to you explaining why; posting or commenting is suspended on the account; the account is closed. Hate, harassment, and the sexualisation of minors result in immediate closure.

Removal is not a judgement on your writing. If work of yours was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you can ask us to review it through the contact form.

4. Telling us about a problem

Every comment carries a Report option in its ⋯ menu. Once a comment has been reported by more than one member it is withheld from public view pending review — withheld, not deleted. We do not tell anyone who reported them.

To report anything else — a poem, a profile, or behaviour spread across several pages — use the contact form and include a link. Reports are reviewed by our staff and we do not disclose who reported what.

5. Agreeing to this

You are asked to agree to this page once, before you post a poem or leave a comment. It applies to those two things only: reading, starring, following and saving do not require it, and declining has no other consequence. If we materially revise these rules, we will ask you to agree again.

This page forms part of the Terms of Service, which is the agreement between you and First Verse; where the two cover the same ground, the Terms govern. The Privacy Policy sets out what happens to your data, including that poems are not used to train AI models.

To report a problem, or to question anything on this page: use the contact form or write to support@firstverse.app.