Content and Community Policy

Last updated 7 August 2026

This page is the rulebook for everything people put on hudr.net. It says what is not allowed, what we check before it reaches the feed, what you can report and how, what we do about a breach, and how to appeal. The Terms of Use are the agreement; this page is what the rules in them mean in practice. Both apply.

hudr.net is a professional network. The bar here is what you would be comfortable having next to your name in front of a colleague, a client or someone hiring. If something needs an argument about whether it belongs here, it probably does not.

Where these rules apply

Everything you can put on hudr.net, in every place you can put it:

• Posts — text, images, video and reels, polls, GIFs, audio and documents.
• Stories, which disappear after 24 hours but are covered while they are up.
• Comments and replies.
• Your profile — name, username, headline, bio, links, avatar and cover image.
• Communities, including their name, description and their own guidelines.
• Job postings and the applications sent to them.
• Profile reviews and replies to them.
• Ads and boosted posts.
• Direct messages and group chats.

Private does not mean exempt. A direct message is private between the people in the conversation, but harassment, threats, scams, sexual content involving a minor and illegal material in a message can be reported and acted on like anything else.

Child safety

This is the one section with no grey area and no second chance. None of the following is allowed on hudr.net, in public or in a private message:

• Child sexual abuse material, in any form — photographs, video, drawings, computer-generated imagery, text, or links pointing to it.
• Sexualising a minor, including sexualised descriptions, sexualised editing of an ordinary image, and sexualised comments about a child.
• Grooming and solicitation — building a relationship with a minor for a sexual purpose, asking a minor for images, or trying to arrange contact with one.
• Trading in it — offering, requesting, advertising or linking to such material, however it is coded or hinted at.
• Endangering a child — physical abuse, exploitation, trafficking, or encouraging a child to hurt themselves.

Minimum age. You must be at least 13 to have a hudr.net account, and older if the law where you live sets a higher minimum for a service like this one. We do not ask for your date of birth at signup, so nobody is checked at the door — we act when it is reported. An account we believe belongs to someone under the minimum age is suspended.

How to raise it. Use the report menu on the post, story, profile, community or chat and choose the child-safety reason — it is in the list for all of them. If you need to reach us directly about child safety, write to [email protected] with “Child safety” in the subject line. If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first — hudr.net is not an emergency service.

The full standard, including the minimum-age rule and how to reach us about it, is on the Child Safety Standards page.

What is not allowed

Alongside the child-safety rules above, do not post, send, upload or advertise:

• Sexual content and nudity. No pornography, no sexual services, no sexualised imagery or text. hudr.net has no adult section and no “show me this anyway” switch — this content is removed, not hidden behind a filter.
• Violence and threats. No threatening to hurt someone, no wishing harm on them, no calling for violence, and no glorifying it. No graphic violence or gore posted for its own sake.
• Hate. No attacking people for who they are — race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or serious disease. No slurs, no dehumanising comparisons, no hate symbols.
• Harassment and bullying. No targeting someone with insults, no pile-ons, no stalking behaviour, no unwanted sexual attention, and no organising other people to do it for you.
• Suicide and self-harm. No encouraging it, no instructions, no methods, no challenges, and nothing that treats it as an aspiration. Talking about your own recovery is fine; telling someone else how to hurt themselves is not.
• Other people’s private information. No home addresses, phone numbers, identity documents, financial details or anything else that exposes a private person, and no threatening to publish it.
• Intimate images shared without consent, including images taken or edited to look intimate, and threats to share them.
• Impersonation and fake identity. No pretending to be another person, a company or a public body, and no claiming an employer, a role, a qualification or a badge you do not have. Parody and fan accounts must say what they are, in the name and in the bio.
• Spam and fake engagement. No bulk unsolicited messages, no repetitive posting, no engagement rings or link schemes, and no buying or selling followers, likes, comments, connections, reviews or verification.
• Scams and fraud. No phishing, no fake job offers, no advance-fee schemes, no investment or crypto bait, no counterfeit goods, and no payment-details harvesting.
• Illegal and regulated goods. Nothing illegal where you are or where your audience is, and no offering drugs, weapons, stolen data, hacked accounts, forged documents or regulated goods you are not licensed to sell.
• Terrorism and violent extremism. No content from, praising, or on behalf of terrorist or violent extremist organisations, and no recruiting for one.
• Deception. No manipulated or synthetic media passed off as real in order to mislead people, and no false claims about who you are, who you work for or what you are selling.
• Content that is not yours to post. You must hold the rights to the text, images, footage, music and code you upload.
• Attacks on the service. No malware, no probing or scanning hudr.net or other members’ accounts, and no bots, crawlers or scripts collecting data or acting in bulk. Working around rate limits or access checks counts.
• Getting around enforcement. If we suspend you, do not come back under another account. If we remove something, do not re-post it.

There is one narrow exception to the media rules: content that documents violence, hate or abuse for a news, educational or awareness purpose can be allowed if it is clearly presented that way and is not gratuitous. That exception never applies to anything in the child-safety section.

What we check before it reaches the feed

hudr.net does not put everything straight in front of everybody. Some things wait for our team:

• Reels and standalone video posts are checked before they can appear in the Reels feed. Every one, every time.
• Other new posts are checked before they reach the main feed, Explore and search — whenever post review is switched on. That is a setting our team controls, so unlike the reel check above it is not permanent.
• Editing a post sends it back through the same check, on the same terms, so an approved post cannot be quietly rewritten into something else.
• Job postings are checked before they appear publicly.

What “waiting” actually means for you. While a post is waiting, it is on your own profile, it opens if someone follows its link, and it goes to the people who follow you. It does not appear in the main feed, in Explore, in search results or in the Reels feed until it is approved. Nothing is hidden from you: you can see your own post the whole time.

What is not checked in advance. Comments and replies, stories, posts made inside a community, profile reviews and messages go up as soon as you send them. They are covered by every rule on this page and are acted on when they are reported. We would rather say that plainly than claim a check we do not perform.

Approval is not an endorsement. It means nothing on the list above was obvious in it. It is not a check of the facts, not a recommendation, and not a promise that it is safe to act on. Something approved today can still be removed tomorrow.

Reporting

What you can report

• A post — text, image, video or reel, poll, GIF, audio or document.
• A story.
• A person — any profile.
• A community.
• A group chat.
• A profile review.

Each of those has its own list of reasons to pick from — hate, harassment, violence, child safety, privacy, spam, self-harm, disturbing media, impersonation, violent extremism and, for reviews, the review-specific ones such as a reviewer who was never a customer.

Comments do not have their own report button yet. Report the account that wrote the comment, or the post it sits under. Separately, the author of a post can delete any comment on it and can turn comments off for that post entirely.

How to report

• On the website — open the … menu on the post, story, profile, community, chat or review, choose Report, pick the reason that fits best, and send.
• In the hudr.net app — the same … menu, in the same places, with the same reasons.

Both go to the same place. There is no separate form to find and no account you need to have first beyond your own.

What happens after you report

• It is anonymous. The person you report is not told who reported them, and we do not show them your name.
• A person reads it. Nothing is removed by counting reports — a hundred reports about something that breaks no rule changes nothing, and one report about something serious is enough.
• One report per item, from you. Reporting the same thing again replaces your earlier report instead of adding a second one, so reporting repeatedly does not move it up.
• Reports are rate-limited. Filing reports you know to be false, or organising other people to mass-report someone, is harassment and is treated as harassment.
• You will not get a message telling you what we decided. We do not report back on other people’s accounts. If the content is still there later, that is not proof nobody looked.
• Reporting a review works differently, because a review affects someone’s reputation and the person it is about would like a lever. The rules for that are in the Terms of Use.

If someone is in immediate danger — from another person or from themselves — contact your local emergency services. Report it here too, but do not wait on us.

Blocking and the other controls you have

Reporting is for us. These are for you, they work immediately, and the other person is not told about any of them. All of them are in both the website and the app.

• Block someone. They cannot follow you, message you or interact with you. From the … menu on their profile, from inside a chat, or from Settings → Blocked accounts, which is also where you unblock.
• Mute someone. You stop seeing them, without blocking them and without them knowing.
• Mute a conversation, so it stops notifying you.
• Turn comments off on any of your own posts, and delete any comment on them.
• Control who can start a conversation with you in your privacy settings. Anyone who is not a connection lands in message requests, and a sender is never told whether you accepted, ignored or deleted their request.
• Leave a community at any time.
• Delete your own posts, comments, stories and reviews.

What enforcement looks like

Depending on what happened, we can do any of these:

Action	What it means
Remove the item	The post, story, comment, review, listing or ad stops being shown. The rest of the account is untouched.
Stop it spreading	The post stays on the author’s profile but does not go into the main feed, Explore, search or recommendations.
Turn a feature off	An account loses a specific ability — advertising, reviews, monetization — while the rest keeps working.
Suspend the account	The profile and its content stop being shown publicly and its ads stop running. Nothing is deleted. If the suspension is lifted, it all comes back.
Make the account unavailable	For serious cases: the profile behaves as if it does not exist on hudr.net.
Hold or reverse money	Where the breach involves manufactured engagement or fraud, creator earnings can be held, taken back, or refused, and the account removed from monetization.

Which one we use depends on how serious it is, whether it looks deliberate, and what has happened on the account before. Most first breaches cost you the item, not the account.

Some things skip the ladder. Child sexual abuse material, credible threats of violence, and coming back with a new account after a suspension end an account immediately.

Every suspension shows you the reason on the suspended screen — the actual reason, not a generic notice. Some reasons are fixable rather than final: a username that impersonates a company or a public body, for instance, is a suspension you clear by changing the username.

Appealing

• If your account is suspended, the suspended screen carries an appeal box, on the website and in the app. Write what you think we got wrong.
• One appeal. Sending it again does not add anything — we keep the one you already sent, and a second submission does not overwrite it. There is also a limit on how often the box can be used.
• Sending an appeal is not an undertaking to reverse anything. A person reads it and decides.
• There is no appeal for the child-safety cases above.

For anything else — a post removed you believe should not have been, a feature switched off, a question about this page — use the contact page. Write from the email address on your account and say which item you mean.

Communities and their own rules

A community can set its own guidelines, and they can be stricter than this page. They can never be looser: a community rule that permits something banned here does not permit it. The people running a community are responsible for what happens in it, and a community that exists to break these rules is removed along with the accounts running it. You can report a community the same way you report anything else.

Ads, jobs and paid features

Paying does not buy an exemption. Ads and boosted posts follow every rule on this page, must not mislead, and must be honest about what they link to — and they are labelled as sponsored where they appear. Job postings must be real, must not discriminate unlawfully, and must never ask a candidate to pay to apply or to be hired. Buying a verification badge does not change how these rules are applied to you. The commercial terms for all of it — wallet, fees, refunds, payouts — are in the Terms of Use.

Changes to this page

We update this page as the product and the rules change. The “last updated” date at the top changes with it, and the version on this page is the current one. If what hudr.net checks before publishing ever changes, this page changes at the same time — it is meant to describe what actually happens, not what we would like to happen.

How to reach us

Questions about this page, an appeal, a child-safety concern, or something you think should not be on hudr.net — all of it goes through the contact page. For content that is on hudr.net right now, the report menu is faster than an email.

You can also write to us directly — tap the icon to copy the address:

[email protected]

The Terms of Use are the agreement behind this page, and the Privacy Policy covers what we collect and how long we keep it.