Community Guidelines

Everywhere on ATKuniverse, on the website and in the app: community feeds, comments, community chat, private messages, voice messages, statuses, profiles, usernames and shared files. They sit alongside our Terms of Service. Communities can add their own stricter rules on top, but never looser ones.

We don’t tolerate objectionable content or abusive behaviour. These lead to removal and, depending on how serious they are, a ban without warning:

• Anything that sexualises or endangers children. We remove it, ban the account and report it to the authorities. See our Child Safety Standards.
• Sexual content: nudity, pornography, sexual solicitation, or sharing intimate images of anyone without their consent.
• Harassment and bullying: insults, threats, intimidation, stalking, unwanted repeated contact, or getting others to pile on.
• Hate: attacking or demeaning people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, caste, disability, disease, age, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation, including hateful symbols.
• Violence: threats, glorifying violence or terrorism, or graphic gore.
• Self-harm: encouraging or instructing self-harm, suicide or eating disorders. Talking about your own struggles to get support is allowed. If someone seems at risk, report it so we can help.
• Scams and fraud: fake investments, “double your money,” pyramid schemes, phishing, fake giveaways, or asking members for passwords, codes or payments.
• Impersonation: pretending to be another person, a brand, or ATKuniverse staff.
• Illegal goods and activity: drugs, weapons, stolen accounts or data, or anything else illegal.

• Disagree with ideas, not people. Keep it constructive.
• Respect privacy. Don’t share someone’s personal details, private messages or photos without their permission.
• Calls follow the same rules. Don’t record or screenshot a voice or video call without everyone’s permission, and keep video calls free of nudity and sexual content. If a call makes you uncomfortable, hang up and block or report the person.
• Post in the right place, and keep each community on its topic.
• Don’t spam: no repeated posts, unwanted promotion, mass messaging, or chain messages. Some communities limit link sharing to moderators. If a link isn’t allowed there, the post is rejected and you’ll see why.
• Only share what you have the right to share. Don’t repost paid courses or products, or other people’s work without credit or permission.

Private doesn’t mean anything goes. These guidelines apply to private messages and statuses too. You choose who can start a private chat with you (anyone, people in your communities, or no one) in Settings → Privacy. If someone keeps messaging you after you’ve made clear you don’t want it, block and report them.

• Report anything that breaks these guidelines. Use the ⋯ menu on a post or comment, long-press a message, tap the flag on a status, or open someone’s profile. Pick what’s wrong and add details if you like.
• Reports go to the ATKuniverse team, who review them, usually within 24 hours. The person you report isn’t told who reported them.
• Block someone from their profile and they can no longer message you, see your statuses, or show up in your statuses.
• If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.

Every community has its own team, separate from ATKuniverse staff:

• Members post, comment, react and chat, within the community’s settings.
• Moderators also pin posts, remove content, keep the banned-words list, and restrict members.
• Admins also change community settings (such as locking chat, link sharing and who can add resources), manage roles and ban members.
• The owner has full control of the community.

Communities can keep a list of banned words. Messages containing them are censored automatically (replaced with asterisks), and the rest of the message still goes through. A community’s settings are always visible to its members, so you know what applies.

Moderators enforce these guidelines in their community. ATKuniverse staff enforce them everywhere, including against moderators and owners.

Depending on how serious it is and whether it has happened before: the content is removed, you’re warned, restricted in or removed from a community, or your ATKuniverse account is suspended or permanently banned. The most serious harms, including anything involving children, lead to an immediate ban and, where the law requires, a report to the authorities. We act on valid reports within 24 hours.

Think we got it wrong? Contact us and we’ll review the decision.

We update these guidelines as ATKuniverse grows, and change the date at the top when we do.