Community Guidelines

1. Why This Community Exists

All The Words On The Screen exists to encourage better accessibility practices in media, especially around captions and subtitles.

We want this to be a place for documentation, education, thoughtful critique, and constructive discussion.

2. What We Encourage

  • Clear documentation of captioning and accessibility issues
  • Thoughtful, respectful commentary
  • Constructive corrections and clarifications
  • Educational discussion that helps others understand the issue
  • Good-faith participation that supports accessibility

3. What Is Not Allowed

We do not allow content or conduct that undermines the safety or purpose of the site.

  • Harassment, intimidation, or personal attacks
  • Threats or abusive behavior
  • Posting private or sensitive personal information without permission
  • Fraudulent or misleading submissions
  • Spam, manipulation, or abusive automation
  • Content you do not have the right to share
  • Content that violates applicable law

4. Accuracy Matters

If you submit something, do your best to be accurate, fair, and specific.

If something is later shown to be incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading, we may correct it, annotate it, restrict it, or remove it.

5. Copyright and Ownership

Only submit material you have the right to share.

If you believe something on the site infringes your copyright, please review our Copyright Policy.

6. Reporting Problems

If you see something that should be reviewed, use the reporting tools provided on the site or contact us directly.

Reports may include concerns about copyright, privacy, harassment, accuracy, or other rule violations.

7. Moderation

We may review, restrict, remove, or decline content that we believe violates our rules or creates risk for the site or its users.

We may also suspend or terminate accounts when necessary to protect the community and the purpose of the site.

Pending review means moderation has not made a final decision yet. Queue delay should not be read as a rejection or enforcement outcome by itself.

If content is rejected or an account is restricted, the relevant profile notice or appeal path should explain the current status, the general reason category, and the next available step.

Appeals are for moderation outcomes. Correction requests are for factual accuracy issues. Copyright notices are separate legal requests handled under the copyright policy.

8. How Review Paths Differ

Use a moderation appeal when you believe content removal, account restriction, or another moderation decision should be reviewed again.

Use a correction request when the problem is factual accuracy rather than rule enforcement.

Use the copyright process for infringement claims and the privacy or legal contact routes for those request types.

9. Good Faith Participation

We are trying to build something useful and responsible. Please participate in that spirit.

If you are here to help improve accessibility and support clear, good-faith discussion, you are welcome here.