Moderation & reports

How things get checked here, who checks them, and what to do when you think we got it wrong.

Everything is read before it goes public

This is not a platform where you post and a filter catches it afterwards. Resources, marketplace listings and job posts sit in a queue until a person reads them. Usually that is within 48 hours; you get an email either way, and if we ask for changes we say which.

Forum posts and comments are the exception: they appear immediately, and are moderated on report. Waiting two days for a reply to a question would make the forum useless, which is a worse outcome than the occasional bad post.

Teams and companies are verified by hand before either can publish anything at all. That check happens by email, to the institutional address given at registration.

What gets removed

• Content that is not yours to publish. Design reports, test data and CAD usually belong to a team or a university, and some of it falls under sponsor agreements. Uploading requires confirming your team allows it. We cannot check that. You can, and the confirmation is on you.
• Harassment, abuse and personal attacks. Disagreeing hard about a suspension geometry is the point of the place. Going after the person is not.
• Dangerous or misleading technical information presented as fact, particularly around accumulators, high voltage and anything a scrutineer would fail you for.
• Spam and advertising from accounts that are not approved companies.
• Impersonation of a person, a team, a company or a competition organiser.
• Listings for goods that cannot legally change hands the way the listing describes. Cells, accumulators, fuels and fluids are collection-only, and the platform forces that.

How to report something

Every resource, listing, thread and reply has a report button. It asks for a reason and, optionally, what you want us to look at. Reports are not anonymous to us, because we need to be able to come back to you, but the person you reported never learns who reported them.

You can report without belonging to a team. It is the one thing on the platform that works with nothing but an account, and deliberately so: if reporting were hard, we would not hear about the things we most need to hear about.

You can also write to [email protected], which is the right route if the thing you are reporting is a whole account rather than one post.

What happens then

• A report goes into a queue that only the two of us can see. There is no automated removal, and nothing disappears because enough people clicked a button.
• We look at the content and decide. The decision is one of actioned (something was removed, hidden or an account suspended) or dismissed (we looked and left it).
• Every decision is written down with its reason and kept. That record exists so we can be held to it, including by you.
• Whoever reported gets told the outcome. Whoever wrote the content gets told what was removed and why.

If you think we got it wrong

Reply to the message telling you about the decision, or write to [email protected] with what was removed and why you disagree. A person reads it: the same two people, so do not expect a different reviewer, but do expect an actual answer rather than a form.

If we made a mistake we put the content back and say so. If we did not, we explain the reasoning rather than repeating the rule at you.

Under the Digital Services Act you also have the right to take a complaint to an out-of-court dispute settlement body, and to a court, in the country where you live. Nothing on this page limits that.

Suspensions

A suspended account can still read the platform and can still export or delete its own data. It cannot post, sell, contact anyone or comment. Suspension is for repeated or serious cases; a single bad post gets the post removed, not the person.

Who does this

Two people: Lorenzo Dello Iacovo and Antonio Longobardi. There is no moderation team, no outsourced queue and no automated ranking deciding what you see. That is a limit, and it is also why every decision here can be explained by somebody who made it.

See also the terms of use, which say what you agree to, and the privacy notice, which says what we keep.